Originally Posted by
Macca
It's a bit of wire with a spade connector, a plug socket and some heatshrink and it costs over 200 dollars. My open mind tells me that is a rip off, even before we get to their nonsense explanation for how it does it does. Why would I pay them 200 bucks when I could make one for a tenner? Their price is entirely based on the idea that they have invented some miracle device and you have to pay a premium for that when in fact it is just a bit of wire. There's so much of this in hi-fi nowadays and it needs calling out for what it is.
If it was that easy we would all be kitted out with £100 systems, using bell wire and cheap kettle cables. Surely there is some credibility for suppliers that have spent 100s of hours in R & D and material costs in order to produce products that will work for some people. Why must suppliers of 'exotic' kit be painted with the same brush, being exploitative con artists. Long live the innovators I say.
Nobody is being forced to buy this sort of stuff and my objection is the inference that anyone who does, is gullible and easily conned. Its almost as if anyone who has money to spend this way is not to be trusted out alone.
Thankfully few people on here come out and destroy products of modest cost as being cheap worthless tat. Why is the inverse true?
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