OG_zuuli asked them if they had speaker cables for "post apocalyptic sludgecore" and they just looked at me funny. #audiophile
crowdotblack@zuul https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/copper-wire-vs-bananas-vs-mud-an-interconnect-test.420367/
Copper wire vs bananas vs mud - An interconnect test
Do you remember the great fun we had 11 years ago when I ran audio signals through fruits and vegetables, beer, coke, steel wool and other stuff? No? Not to worry, here is the banana mud redux! The idea of this blind test is that the same audio signals were run through copper wire, then...
@crowdotblack saw that 🤣
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@crowdotblack @zuul "post apocalyptic sludgecore" sounds _better_ thru mud.
Luke
gnaddrig
Cy
nocci [cyberpunk'd]
Elena ``of Valhalla''@zuul maybe you could try cutting one of those cables in half and letting the signal pass through a bit of wet mud, I've heard it makes the sound warmer and earthier :D
supernova@zuul you need those cable raisers to avoid interference with the floor anyway. These guys are amateurs!
@supernova that's cable elevators to you, sir. 😂
https://www.dedicatedaudio.com/products/cardas-multi-block-cable-elevators
https://www.dedicatedaudio.com/products/cardas-multi-block-cable-elevators
Eryck Gu⸸⸸eЯaLI bet those really make the music "sound more airy" with a touch of "woodiness in the mids". 😉
Martin Boller 
@zuul Using Barbed Wire for the Heavy Metal.
On that note: Do you then swap cables regularly when having a wide taste in music (Listening to anything from Mozart to Motörhead)
My, my, my, what a mess. Amazing what people can be sold.
BenjaminK@zuul I'm laughing but this is most of modern capitalism. From Michael Pollen's book the Omnivores Dilemma. The whole chapter on corn is worth reading
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)@zuul Japanese funky lo-fi barber beats. It's just made up of bits of left over Jazz cables.
nachtet@golgaloth @zuul what about vtubers?
@golgaloth i'm not sure if you picked up on it or not but that picture is from a Japanese audiophile store... and the Japanese are nothing if not DEAD SERIOUS about audiophile shit... so i'm not sure how this is received over there vs. over here in the states where obviously for most discerning folks this is snake oil of the highest order.
anyway... i get my cables from the caucus mountains where the OFC is hand woven in small batches by vestal virgins wearing white gloves. 😜
@zuul
Better than that trash from the Alps where the vestal virgins all where *shudder* green gloves.
Better than that trash from the Alps where the vestal virgins all where *shudder* green gloves.
marcus
Michael@zuul
Is there also a switch that allows me to select the cables depending on the music being played? It's tedious to have to reconnect the cables for every song. 😂
Is there also a switch that allows me to select the cables depending on the music being played? It's tedious to have to reconnect the cables for every song. 😂
JaxxAI
Fritz leck Eier 🎗️
Maarten Sneep@zuul @ReneDamkot Oh, but that is just a banana.
Leela Torres@zuul
For which style are broken cables with flaky connection?
For which style are broken cables with flaky connection?
Rolf Blijleven 🔻@zuul This will be instantly forbidden and banned when the Party for the Liberation of the Enslaved to Consumerism has taken power.
Ann Effes
Faraiwe
Elias Mårtenson@zuul now let's assume for a second that this is in fact true. That these cables make a difference.
That must mean by simple logic that the cables themselves change the sound, and that there are at least 3 different ways in which the sound could be changed.
Then by just a tiny bit of more logic, at most one of those cables would reliably tranfer the original signal?
Of course, when asked to use logic, the customers for these things simply claim that they don't know how it works, only that it does.
I always thought there was a great opportunity to make money if one had no sense of morals; sell ethernet cables for better sound or something like that. I think the modern version of this would be a special keyboard that makes your ai music better if you write the prompt with it?
Gerardo Lisboa
Matthew MillerI hate to ruin your charming optimism, but, yeah....
https://www.transparentcable.com/products/premium-ethernet
https://avantiaudio.com/products/vivace-ethernet-cables
https://sotm-usa.com/products/sotm-dcbl-cat7-lan-cable
... and more.
Oh geez
https://chameleon-audio.com/sotm-iso-cat6/
"The SOtM iSO-CAT6 is a high-performance LAN signal filter and isolator that significantly enhances audio clarity by removing noise and interference. Perfect for high-end audio systems, it improves sound detail and resolution. The Special Edition offers customizable sound with various CAT7 cables, allowing you to fine-tune your audio experience since each cable has it’s [sic] own audio characteristics."
@mattdm @zuul OK, but how stupid can it get? An audiophile hard disk? Oh fuck. https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/digital-reviews/network-player-reviews/melco-e100a-h80-8tb-audiophile-usb-drive/
Melco E100A H80 8TB audiophile USB Drive
The Melco E100A audiophile hard disk drive offers an extra 8 TB of audio-grade storage for all audio systems relying on HDD storage. Naturally, this includes Melco Digital Music Libraries, as well as systems running Windows 11, MacOS, exFAT-compatible Linux-based equipment, and the Raspberry Pi.
Quad
@loke @mattdm @zuul No, I just find the concept of a hifi gaming keyboard really funny. Fiio makes pretty nice products, I still use my 10 year old Fiio E10K.
If you want stupid, my local electronics store tried to upsell me a toslink cable two days ago because the gold plated connectors help with connection quality, through an OPTICAL cable.
If you want stupid, my local electronics store tried to upsell me a toslink cable two days ago because the gold plated connectors help with connection quality, through an OPTICAL cable.
Oh no. lol.
Using CAT5 is good but, for recording engineers who use them in place of XLR cables. It's much less expensive, lighter, and takes up less space.
I could see it being used between surround sound stereos and receivers maybe. Only in the craziest multichannel set ups like 16.4.2 or whatever people are doing.
But, that's it.
@GothFvck @mattdm @zuul you might not have realised just how crazy this is. This is not about using Ethernet cabling to connect your speakers. They are literally talking about using a different Ethernet cable to attach your file server to your computer, since supposedly different cables changer the way the music files served off of that server sounds.
Yes. It's that crazy.
lmao wtf. it's amazing how much people overestimate how much bandwidth audio really takes up. There's a reason why CD-R's are 700MB. There's only so much going on with the data and it's all 0's and 1's. Music is actually fairly simple stuff.
Where's the coocoo clock emoji? 🤪
I mean... there's a level where I have to congratulate the people who are selling these things. Good for them. Seriously. lol. The people buying this stuff are obviously doing well financially and are foolish and ignorant enough to deserve being ripped off.
@GothFvck @mattdm @zuul Also, if you were to ask them how the cable supposedly changes the zeroes and ones that are transmitted over the cable, and change them in such a way that it's still a valid compressed stream, but does not alter any bits which are unrelated to audio, their answers gets even more bizarre.
If you want to read some utterly insane ramblings, here are some examples:
https://futureaudiophile.com/how-to-pick-the-right-digital-cable-for-your-audiophile-system/
https://tmraudio.com/blog/guide-to-understanding-audio-cables-myths-materials-choosing-the-right-ones/
Also, the most out there of the companies providing products for this market is this one: https://furutech.com/
Oh my flying spaghetti monster are these products bizarre.
How about a product to remove static from discs
Or a demagnetiser for various things like power cords
To be honest, I'm not sure what the claim even is here, but it appears that it's meant to remove static using negative ions? WTF? Anyway, it's this product
Apparently, if you use this panel instead of the regular plastic frame around your wall outlet, sound will be better?
It's funny, these days, many of these companies flood you with ai generated slop, but these pages appear to be written by actual humans. I guess you still need humans to get the crazy talk to the exact right level.
Maddy 🏳️⚧️ - ADHD-powered 
@zuul Every time I see some audiophile nonsense™️, I get hit with psychic damage. 
refraction 
SnyperWolf@zuul Pretty sure the cables you are looking for is just two rusty coat hangers
Brad Gateway of the 502 Errors@zuul (plugs in a random cable, plays Clown Core, watches my stereo explode)
Ozzelot 
@zuul The cable for Bonk Wave may or may not be in the back or in the front or behind your left ear or mine. I'll check/not check. #bonkwave #notbonkwave
Keytar Wolf@zuul it must suck having to change cables all the time if you like different styles of music.
Arthur Dent
Miakoda 
@zuul
I also wanted to point out how dull that packaging is. Nobody's even trying but, apparently it's still working on some people? lol
I also wanted to point out how dull that packaging is. Nobody's even trying but, apparently it's still working on some people? lol