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The $3,000 Power Cord

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You may have too much money if you would pay $3,000 for a single power cable, or alternatively, you may not be giving enough money to us. If you bought a 1.5m cable, you’d get each centimeter for a around $20. Teac Esoteric, a Japanese company, manufactures the cable — so costly that the provider of the 99.999999% pure copper wiring describes the manufacture of stress-free 8N class copper as (wait for it) “extremely difficult,” forcing them to produce only 250 cables. Ever.

But this is no simple power cable. Polyolefin resin. 24 karat gold and palladium plating. Insert costly material you haven’t heard of here. I hope that for this much, this is the finest in power delivery, and by “power” I mean “handjob.”

Read – Product Information (Japanese) [Teac Esoteric via Watch.Impress]

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