Thanks Dave. I guess I was pinning too much blame on the cable makers when the real culprit is an inefficient distribution model that marks up the product too much by the time it makes it to the end user.
I don't know that inefficient is the word I would use. Convoluted is more like it to me. You're trying so hard to reach people and gain the upper edge in marketing... that includes all the fluff of trying to appear technically superior by ranting on about, well, nonsense or pseudo information. Part of that is having as many places to sell your product as possible so it's always seen. Some of them probably sell the same product as two different things to the same distributors. It is what it is... if you find things you enjoy you've won, no matter the background. But for those willing to put in due diligence there are manufacturers like ZenWave whom offer typically superior products for a song. The low faith in spending less is maybe the strangest part to me. There are some pretty good cables out there, but at this point if someone wanted a loom I'd just point them to ZenWave for win-wins.