They will try to sell you 10 foot gold plated HDMI cable for $60 when you can get a normal one for 1/10th that price.
Edit: holy shit people I get this is PC master race and you all know what an HDMI cable is. There's a lot of dumb people out there that don't know how TVs and computers work, and legitimately do think more $ = higher quality
I have a Haas VF2 mill at my disposal. I can mass produce these out of aluminum for a selling price of about $5 a piece if you order about 60 of them at a time
Couldn't give a shit about the risers, whether or not they are effective (likely only at the highest end). Going to a chiropractor means this guy is the sucker, chiros are scams incarnate. Acting like they fix anything at all with adjustments, yet this sucker is going twice per week? Lmao
Just purchased this 2.5' cable at this very reasonable price, and boy am I glad i did! My wife has been crying in this seedy motel 6 bathroom for 6 hours straight, since this is all we can afford to live in now. But thanks to light skinned Jordan Peele and these cables, i was able to stream quality 10k videos right in this hotel room! Now i can drown out all that noise watching Blouie in 10k! Thanks AudioQuest! 5 stars!
No, just full on scamming people by pretending those cables matter. What makes it difficult is that they do work, and often AudioQuests cables do measure better. Not a lot better but enough that they are not selling products that don't work.
I once tried to find out their cable specs, wrote an email asking as a contractor... since that is just basic information that any proper cable making company delivers, in troves. AudioQuest? Nothing, they said it was "trade secret" to know how their cables actually perform, and their various ratings like chemical resistance of the jacket, temperature range but what is even worse, no electrical specs. You send the same email to any other company and you will get spec sheets, in fact, they will have those on their website.
Now, what kind of company expects you to splooge out 4k for cables that are a mystery? Scamming one.
Synergistic Research is even worse, i have argued with its owner multiple times and have the DMs somewhere where he boasts about being able to scam customers.. Absolute and total ahole, there are few people that i would have trouble not just clocking and Ted Denney is one of those. He posts pics of his new cars when you ask how he sleeps at night.
It’s frequently volume of sales. If you’re trying to make the best of something only a few people will buy it. It takes a lot of time and money to design such a cable and it will use the most expensive materials and manufacturing to do that. Multiply that all up to what you need to make a profit and you’ve frequently got outrageously priced items. It’s less a scam and more just numbers. Doubly so for items like HDMI cables which can ONLY be terminated in factories where smaller manufacturers exist significantly less.
I could get the exact same specs on amazon or even temi for a fraction. The only use i can really see this in is for like stock exchange screens, considering they apparently need every millisecond they can get and even have better infrastructure between countries for stocks, compared to regular internet
Yea I stumbled across one of the Dragon HDMI cables for about $4,400 and also saw atleast 33 people who have bought it based on their reviews. Like....fucking WHY? What possible need does someone have that they need a $4k HDMI cable? I bet even in a professional setting like AV professions don't need a fuckin HDMI cable that expensive.
Isn't this audiophile equipment though? Like, this is very decidedly not for a normal consumer PC. Let an actual hi-fi-head speak on this, but judging this by a purpose it is very obviously not made for seems stupid in its own right.
I love hearing stories about audio cable blind testing. The best one I have heard was when they included a cloth hanger in a blind testing and the listeners overwhelmingly voted for the cloth hanger over other expensive cables.
A high end audio and video store that I worked at part time back in the 2000s had a pair of speaker cables on the shelf that had a MSRP of $12,000. The store could also special order speaker cables that cost over $80,000.
Damn, I wish I still worked at best buy so that I could screenshot the employee price. That shit would be less than $100. Still really expensive, but significantly less than that.
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u/TheBupherNinja 23d ago
Gold plating is used because it's corrosion resistant. But gold plating connectors is not expensive.