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Because Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. https://www.cnet.com/news/why-all-hdmi-cables-are-the-same/
Because as P.T. Barnum is once purported to have said "There's a sucker born every minute." and it will only take a few suckers to make the seller of this cable very wealthy. Pure silver is about $20 an OUNCE or less and even if all of the wires and connectors in this 6.6 ft cable were made of pure silver (and not just plated with it) then the cable would probably not have more than a couple or 3 ounces of silver even if it weighed in at 1/2 a pound, or 8 ounces and you added in the value of manufacturing it, it wouldn't be worth more than a few hundred. I know a guy who builds fences for a living and when he gives a prospective client a quote his quotes are almost always more than 10-20 times higher than the next highest quote. Are his fences 10-20 times better than the other guys?(he uses the exact same materials bought at the exact same source as all of the other fence builders in town) NO they are not at best they might be 2-3 times better. So why does he give such high quotes? Because... "There's a sucker born every minute." The people who higher him believe the same thing that the people who buy a $1800 HDMI cable believe, that if it costs that much more then it has GOT to be that much better. We are a society that has been taught to believe that you get what you pay for, that value equals quality, etc. My friend the fence builder knows this about people and so he just waits to hook and reel in those suckers. You see, the way he has it figured out, that guy with the next highest bid has to build 10-20 fences to make as much as he does just building ONE fence. There are enough suckers in the world that he can easily get at least 12 per year to bite at his price quote so he only needs to build 12 fences while the other guy builds 240. He can build a fence by himself and on average it takes him about 1-2 weeks for a fairly good sized job and all of the profit belongs to him. There is no way for the other guy to build 240 fences per year by himself. Even at 1 fence per week that is 240 weeks or 4.6 years or 9.2 years if it takes him 2 weeks per fence. So that guy has to hire crews to help him build the fences. So lets say the people he hires aren't quite as good as my friend (he's VERY good) and it takes 2 fencers to put up a fence in 1 week and all 240 fences can be built by 2 guys in 1 week each. He needs to average, roughly, 5 fences per week to build 240 fences per yer which means he has to hire 10 good fence builders. He won't be building any himself because he will be too busy running his company and running around making sure that those 10 employees are building the fences to his standards. But wait, employees want things like vacation time and what not so he will have to hire at least 2 if not 4 more guys (or women, I'm not sexist) to compensate for that and for sick time and other things that happen when you have that many people working for you like sick days etc. Now he has up to 14 employees building fences and he will probably need a secretary and or office manager at the very least. Now he has 15-16 or 17 people on his payroll who all need to be paid out of the profits he makes on those 240 fences per year. Meanwhile, my friend has no employees so he keeps 100% of his profits for himself. He also only builds 12 fences and even they average out to 2 weeks apiece that's only 24 weeks of work and 28 weeks of vacation each year which he can easily afford because he keeps ALL of his profit for himself. So if a very good cable only costs $80 bucks and lets face it the VERY VAST majority of us (if anybody really) can't tell the difference in sound and picture quality between a VERY GOOD $80 cable and a "SUPPOSEDLY" SUPER EXCELLENT $1.800 cable, then the seller only has to sell ONE cable to ONE SUCKER to make the same amount of money as the $80 cable guy makes on 22.5 cables. Actually he makes even more than that because he only pays S&H for one cable instead of 22. I realize that this is a rough analogy but I'm sure you get the point. Unless of course you are one of the people who bought this cable. In that case never mind, I'm sure that your eyes and ears are of such superior quality above and beyond the rest of us average, regular people that you are able to see into the infrared and ultraviolet visual spectrums and that a dog whistle is extremely painful to your ears.
@Audioquest Customer Service. Excuse me, don't you mean 100% Solid Silver-Plated?
Because the conductors are made from Perfect Surface Silver, and high quality silver is expensive.
