Yeah it's a scam and everybody knows that it's a scam.

You know we’ve known this since the 80s right

There's definitely a difference between properly made and shielded cables and the cheapo ones that can be unshielded. However once you meet certain standards like using the correct impedance coax there's basically no improvement from making the cables "better".

I've noticed that the few "Amazon basics" products I've tried were surprisingly good quality, they're probably just about at the right specification.

The one thing I would ask is if they were tested in an electrically noisy environment + how long they last.

$4k is ridiculous, just buy the one that is twice the price of you want build quality.

I know one guy who considers himself an audiophile. He’s also an ass. He showed me his audio setup once, and he definitely overspent on cables. It made me smile.

A connection through a potato yielded fine audio

But, wankers want to wank

Fuck amazon. You can get pertectly good cable for cheap at many places.

One thing to consider is some of the cheaper cables have connectors that degrade after being plugged in more than three times.

As an audiophile myself, cable selection is very important. You see I have a very nice purple set of IEMs that came with a boring looking cable, I bought a nice looking purple braided cable the feels so nice in the hands and matches the shells.

There's another cable I got that looks classy and has wooden accents on the plug for my big headphones.

Once again proving to the non audiophile world that audiophiles are silly. Audiophiles, however, will not take their fingers out of their ears and will continue to do things like buy $4000 cables.

Yes it's a scam but, when you spend $100.000 on a set of speakers, you just can't spend $7 on cables.

(Sorry I forgot the /S)

That doesn't test durability over 10 years of use