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For $147.72, audiophiles have another excuse to spend an exuberant amount of money on a “cryogenically-treated, gold-plated” doodad. And the vendor is 100% serious about their “audio grade” label, even going as far as trademarking the term.

But hey, it’s sooo worth it for the perfect sonic experience. Or so the product commenters will have you believe. Apparently “behind acoustic treatment, AC power is the second most under-invested aspect of home theater.” Well, I’ll be. You people will spend money on anything won’t you?

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True audiophiles love everything about the art of music and the process of listening to it. They love to advertise their insane sound prowess, rather it be with snobby and ultra complex non sequiturs or t-shirts advertising their love for sound.

These Jack Plug Necklaces, available in 24-karat gold plating, would surely transmit some awesome audio, if they were made to do so. Instead, they are there just to show people how much you love the sound of a great song on a system which they could only dream of owning.

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Audiophiles are always the first to complain about the lack of music integrity instilled with the less then CD-quality sounds that the iPod allows. We don’t really care whether our headphone wires are gold plated or not for better conductivity, but something like the iLink seems like a good idea if your willing to shell out the money. MSB promises that with their iLink docking station, the music on your iPod can be listened to at Bit-perfect CD quality levels. The iLink provides the first pure digital audio output allowed through an iPod by actually modifying the iPod itself to allow the transfer of digital data.

So, the question remains the same. Do you want to pay a normal amount of money and hear some good music or do you want to pay almost $2000 so you can hear every slide and scratch of a track. If it matters that much to you whether you can hear every aspect and minutiae of the music, then the iLink can provide you the power of audiophile sound from your iPod. And oh yeah, it looks pretty ugly. — Andrew Dobrow

MSB iLink [via iLounge]