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Jon Hancock"This is quite surprising, especially as we often don’t think of bananas, or even wet mud, as great conductors"
LR@BigJackBrass "wth why are banana prices surging? oh no"
Ride Theory@BigJackBrass This reminds me of an audiophile test someone conducted years ago to see if anyone could detect any difference between the absurdly expensive Monster Cables and bent coat hanger wire. Nope.
@ridetheory There's a (possibly / probably apocryphal) tale about someone who was so fed up with their audiophile friend criticising their Hi-Fi that they hired a violinist to play at their home, hidden from the critical friend who had been asked to pop over and evaluate some new addition to the system. Sure enough, the friend complained about how unrealistic the violin sounded.
I'm not convinced it happened, but I've met people like that.
Phil Thane ✅@BigJackBrass
An old friend had some old but extremely expensive hi-fi he proudly demonstrated to me. There was a distinct mains hum on one channel but he couldn't hear it.
@ridetheory
An old friend had some old but extremely expensive hi-fi he proudly demonstrated to me. There was a distinct mains hum on one channel but he couldn't hear it.
@ridetheory
QuarterSwede@ridetheory @BigJackBrass Gotta buy those oxygen free gold cables though.
Dataless@BigJackBrass @marcoarment There was a classical music forum I was on years ago that did a similar experiment with various compression bitrates. Most everyone got the 64, but apart from that I was one of the very few to get four for four and it took some *work*.
@Dataless @marcoarment I've done a few tests comparing 128 up to lossless. Although I chose correctly, I can only claim to have been confident about the lowest quality; even then, I'm not convinced I would have been successful had the test not been a comparison. Taken in isolation these things can be extremely hard to identify.
Janne Ojaniemi@BigJackBrass fiddling with audio cables is for amateurs.
An 82-Year-Old Japanese Audiophile Searches for the Best Sound by Installing His Own Electric Utility Pole in His Yard
As a longtime record collector (first because it was before CDs were invented) and a budding audiophile (because vinyl does sound better than digital, have at me in the comments if you must), I appreciate a good story about the search for perfect sound. But Takeo Morita takes it to a new level.
Jesse Gillespie@BigJackBrass you would need to use gold plated cable connectors to notice the difference
Marc Robinson 
@BigJackBrass Remember when Neil Young started Pono, the "studio quality music" service and player? In the intro video for the player there's a clip of him demonstrating it to another musician… in his car while he drives down a gravel road! They both say it "sounds so much better!" That's when I realized "audiophile" is likely a mental disorder.
Pedro Fernandes@BigJackBrass @marcoarment Haha. It’s physics. These gold plated voodoo has always been hilarious to me.
Rob Nee@BigJackBrass @marcoarment it must be an oxygen free banana
Daniel LyonsAn audiophile is someone who spends a lot of money trying to make things sounds good.
An audio engineer is someone who makes a lot of money trying to make things sound good.
36 Pickled Eggs 
@BigJackBrass
Well, Mr. Smarty Pants, what about banana plugs?
Well, Mr. Smarty Pants, what about banana plugs?
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