Yeah cutting out the EMI from the last metre, ignoring the 100+km agross the grid, always struck me as kinda pointless.
I DIY'd my mains cables. It's always satisfying to build something yourself, and you mind less when the interesting experiment that shows you can't hear any difference cost you just a few quid and was actually quite fun. I find it amazing that people pay loads for this stuff - you could get an electrician come in and fit a dedicated spur for your hifi for the same kind of amount. That makes much more sense. Anyway 2000%? By the time you factor in distribution, retail packaging, retail margins and so on, it will shrink rapidly. Take the $15 component cost and add: $20 for labour and packaging = $35 $15 for a minimal manufacturer profit = $50 $10 for a small distro cost or postage to dealer = $60 $40 for a low (on cables) dealer margin = $100 So it's 3x overpriced, maybe. I've seen worse! What I find really crappy is the poor build quality - for that there is no excuse. -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others SB+, EAR V20, Living Voice OBX-R2s plus some other stuff SB3, Charlize, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45323 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
