haven’t had a chance to check the mancave on youtube yet..
I believe those Monster cable, and expensive audio cables were debunked by James Randi and many others.. I just did a google search on it, and many audiophiles are still up in arms about Randi.. It seems they have to feel that their $20,000 audio cables were worth every penny.
more power to those folks though, if they’ve got the money and they feel those 20k cables have value, then I’m all for them spending their money where they want.
I guess that’s half the reason I frequent FR, I believe in liberty. We have the choice to make our own decisions, at least for now, and only partially.
With some of those guys it is like arguing with liberals. You can even bring up the double blind test proving that there is no difference and they still will not buy it. In fact, it’s comical. It was fun the first couple of times I tried to discuss it with those guys, now I just kinda laugh.
I just make sure my low impedance speaker wires are as thick and short as possible, and I worry about more pressing things.
BTW, if someone is serious, they get the $20,000 (per amp) mono amps and put them right next to the speakers. But, but, what about the wiring inside the speaker cabinet? :-)
For the entrepreneur, the objective is not to belittle these people, but to figure out how to serve them and make money at it.
I, for one, would like to buy the final amplifier tubes from old 50-500KW radio transmitters and build them into top-end audio amplifiers for 100’s of K$. With big enough tubes (6 ft tall, water cooled) you could even make the amplifier zero-feedback pure class A.
Come to think of it, back in the 70’s I actually saw something like that. It was a wall full of wide green cabinets with meters along the top and glass windows at eye level, so you could see the tubes glowing. It resembled closely a 50KW AM transmitter, except that it was all audio, no RF. It was driving a shake table in a mechanical testing lab. The transducer beneath the table went up to maybe 40 Hz, but it could shake a 50 pound piece of equipment at that frequency with a peak amplitude of a couple of inches. Required 10’s of KW to do that.