You would probably hear the difference, unless you got a $150 pair which had very similar tonal characteristics to the Kimber. The question is, would you know which was better?
To be honest the next step up from $150 cables is generally biwiring rather than improving the single cable quality. This DOES have a significant benefit. Although Dynaudio buck the trend by not usually letting you biwire their speakers - believing that money to be better spent on single cables. The differences are made more significant by the length of your cable too. I would not want speaker cables longer than 1-1.5 metres anyway. If I had a 50 foot room and needed the cables to run round the entire length of the room I would spend a lot more - admittedly nowhere NEAR �15K though!!! My cables were a top rated �150 a pair level, although I bought two pairs to biwire. I agree that this is about as far as I could deem 'sensible' to go for my speakers which were �800... This was in the days before photography started gobbling my money! > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Franklin Stregevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2003 11:56 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss' > Subject: OT: Insane pricing of audio cables (was: Re: *ist D > lens compatibility) > > > "Heck, that's nothing. Ray Kimber of Kimber Kable marketed a > pair of speaker wires that cost $15,000. I'm NOT making this up." > > Anyone who thinks he can hear the difference between a > $15,000 pair of speaker wires and a pair costing $150 of that > should be required to first take a blind listening test with > a top-rated $150 pair in an A/B comparison. If he picks the > costlier pair fewer than 3 out of 3 times, he must "settle" > for the $150 pair and write a $14,850 check to the charity of > my choice. > >
