Krudler

Audio people collect equipment (amplifiers, receivers, turntables, subwoofers, speakers. modulators), not cables.

There are people who actually understand audio, and they are extraordinarily cynical and dismissive of these types of products. Then there are people who don’t really understand their hobby, they just know they like to spend money on it. I’m describing the difference between an informed connoisseur / collector VS a gadget goof.

This is the same tired thing that’s been going on since I can ever remember. First establish audiophiles as some deranged group of people that are willing to spend the insane amount of money on ridiculous science and then point and laugh.

Real audiophiles don’t give two flying fucks about their cables, for the most part, outside of fundamentals being solid, good shielding, etc.

This is just the electronics version of the same shit you see across every market. $2,000 steaks covered in gold foil - but we’re not castigating steak lovers because a steak lover would not buy such a thing.

The world is filled with people who have so much money it’s embarrassing, and it’s hard for the average chucklehead to understand that.

It kind of pisses me off that they didn’t compare against lamp wire tied to rounded nails. They had the gear.

Nah.

Frankly because everybody knows somebody in that line of academic study, or knows somebody that knows somebody. And it’s generally regarded as a waste of time with no practical outcome. My BIL studied philosophy for 10 years and ended up starting his own treadmill repair company, leveraging his previous skills as a mechanic. You just wasted 10 years of your life and $300,000 of money/opportunity-cost, basically, when most people can’t pay their rent, afford food, or have basic comforts.