The $6000 guitar cable

Chocklit_Thunda

I'll just leave this here and let you all do your own "what the ****!"-ing ?

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ftcl

Of course, once you've bought this, you will insist on it being the best sounding cable EVER MADE! Whether this is down to it actually sounding better, or you convincing yourself it doessince you paid a ludicrous amount of money for it, well, you know...

bindog

Coming from a Sound quality car audio background, where signal cable can get really expensive, the rule was always spend at least 10% of your budget on cabling... Which makes a $60,000 budget for gear... Per guitar/amp combo... Wahahahaha I can't afford this hobby

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Norman86

bindog wrote: Coming from a Sound quality car audio background, where signal cable can get really expensive, the rule was always spend at least 10% of your budget on cabling... Which makes a $60,000 budget for gear... Per guitar/amp combo... Wahahahaha I can't afford this hobby

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Do you still have the opel Bindog?

Anyways, it comes down to the law of diminishing returns...
Signal cable over R100 per metre... You arent paying for better sound anymore!
Maybe better looks though!

bindog

Norman86 wrote:
bindog wrote: Coming from a Sound quality car audio background, where signal cable can get really expensive, the rule was always spend at least 10% of your budget on cabling... Which makes a $60,000 budget for gear... Per guitar/amp combo... Wahahahaha I can't afford this hobby

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Do you still have the opel Bindog?

Anyways, it comes down to the law of diminishing returns...
Signal cable over R100 per metre... You arent paying for better sound anymore!
Maybe better looks though!

No man the coupe I sold off and got a wee lil golf 5 ... And who be you? ?

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flatfourfan

it's a gimmick

GO to a show, slap on a $5999 sticker on the front of a stand with a cable and draw the crowds.

arjunmenon

Analysis Plus make a good product (e.g the black oval cable with silent jacks) but a $6000 cable smells like snakeoil to me (unless maybe the entire cable is made of gold) **edit: it is made of gold**

From their website verbatim:

Golden Oval Guitar & Instrument Cable

Our patented oval design partners with pure gold over Oxygen Free Copper (OFC) to create a LITZ wire absolutely without equal. This 100% shielded coverage incorporates a meticulous designed conductive sheath eliminates microphonic movement noise. Proprietary FEP dielectric provides the optimal impedance and it is made in the USA. This heirloom quality cable that dares you to compare it to any other cable on the market.

GOLDEN OVAL
10ft addtl. ft.
Terminated with straight, 90 degree, or Silent Plug

$5,999
$599

peterleroux

I love this. Gold is NOT the best conducting pure metal (I promise, go look it up), it's two advantages are that it is ductile (so that it conforms to the socket you plug it into, making a nice conductive connection) and it doesn't corrode, so is more durable than silver or copper (the two better conducting pure metals).

The cable is oxygen-free, so that takes corrosion out of the picture, and ductility is only an advantage in connectors, so this cable's only function is to show people how much money you spent on an 'heirloom' cable?

arjunmenon

peterleroux wrote: The cable is oxygen-free, so that takes corrosion out of the picture, and ductility is only an advantage in connectors, so this cable's only function is to show people how much money you spent on an 'heirloom' cable?

Chocklit_Thunda

Just to mess with your minds a little bit about your expensive cables

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables/

I exclusively use coat hangers in my rig ?

selbydoodl

this kind of bull$ baffles brains nonsense is typical of the Hi Fi crowd.

they cater for the deep pocket / empty headed showoffs in the world.