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price and value.. Two different things..

It is true some cheap stuff can be great.
My issue is charging a lot extra.. for what? Maybe "god designed it"?
Some audiophile manfacturers/sellers think they can automatically charge more. just because.
Others just price the item at what is a fair profit.

So some guy finds 10,000 ft of silver wire at $0.20 a foot. makes up some wires and thinks 'silver IC cost a LOT'. so 'naturally' he asks $900 a pop for stuff which cost him twenty minutes and $20 to make.
Where some other guy, same deal, sells his cable for $90.
(the original Western Union wire was this sort of situation)
Why should anyone praise the dude selling them for $900. He is IMO a moral crook. Cheating anyone who cannot figure it all out. No one forced anyone to buy them? SO why IS he a crook???

On the other hand some proprietary things may (or may not) be 'worth' the extra. Bybee gizmos.. They cost little, and the parts are cheap parts.. But the product is based on the 'idea'. SO he charges a lot.
Anyone could make them for the small amount it takes to build them. Yet the Bybee still sell.

Like Shakte sticks. A few bucks of wood. Sells for $800.
So is it a fair price?
To each their own figuring that out.

Particularly in cables, it is very hard to have any idea what the actual value is..
Go only by the ear?
Take into account the maker? Brand's general quality and appeal?
I tend to buy ONLY stuff like Cardas or Kimber since they have the track record..
(The only reason I bought Pangea powercords was they cost LESS than I could have made myself!)

Anyway, it irks me that no small makers of any sort of Audiophile cables can be "TRUSTED" to sell cables at a fair market value. I guess I am just no willing to trust folks 'At their word'. Other are.

I am perhaps too cynical. But maybe I just refuse to buy the 'pig in a poke'?

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