I have never befor boght cable longer than 3m and keeped attention only on basic attributes. Ok, you can live with cheaper cable, but this one solve few problems. At first, I can go far from amplifier even outside the room and hear sounds differently, more objective. Equipment for packing cable is on the cable and you have no worries how to care about such long cable. Finaly, design of isolation is a vintage and it's not only meter of design. Checing the shapes you can find if cable is well care, packed or even damaged...