‘Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric’ doesn’t help.
'Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric' doesn't help.
Clearly the “audiophile” community doesn’t.
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A connection through a potato yielded fine audio
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I tested this myself as a skeptic, just changed the cabels, but was able to hear a very clear difference with my ears. Although I couldn’t explain that difference as I lacked the vocabulary, still do.
Maybe the testing criteria can’t capture that difference either. Either way, you should do you own testing and figure out what you like since this is subjective.
Edit: the scientific method is to test for yourself.
Edit 2: I don’t care if you downvote me, but if you refuse to test things like this out for yourself I am disappointed.
I don’t care if you believe me, it sounded different in a indescribable way.
If music is important to you I think doing tests like this is something you should do to see if there is a difference for you.
Basically I see a test like this and it seems like this food has the same nutrients as this more expensive food so its the same, while not being able to test for how food actually tastes.
Expensive things are not automatically better, don’t get me wrong.
When i was about 9, i was absolutely convinced i could find water with the help of two metal rods. Whenever I held it over water, they would just magically cross without me doing anything. Until my dad filled some opaque cups with water and kept some empty, and put paper over all of them. I failed hard at sensing the the ones with water, even though i had earlier confirmed it worked on a cup with water in it.
Ever since that day I learned never to trust my own brain with things like these. Even though it might not be on purpose, our brain subconsciously deceives us into confirming our own bias.
You can try it out yourself. Have someone else switch the cables while you are not in the room. The try and identify which cable they used purely by sound. It’s not as good as a double blind test, but it should be enough to test your own claim.
Agreed, people should do that.
As I stated in a different comment, this is what I did with a friend. We had 5 different cabels ranging from cheap to about $4000 and we kept listening to the same song. I could not hear the difference after the cheapest performance cable however (Purple flare) but I definitely could hear the difference between those and the cheaper cables.
Again, I don’t know how to describe it. I’m not an audio guy, but I did prefer it.
Again, I’m not an expert. But I’m willing to bet that there is some aspect of sound that is simply not being accounted for in tests like these. And for anything that has to deal with your senses, you should test it for yourself, not just take someone else’s word or experiment for it.
There’s definitely a difference between properly made and shielded cables and the cheapo ones that can be unshielded. However once you meet certain standards like using the correct impedance coax there’s basically no improvement from making the cables “better”.
I’ve noticed that the few “Amazon basics” products I’ve tried were surprisingly good quality, they’re probably just about at the right specification.
the analogy I always draw is to wine.
the difference between a $5 bottle and a $20 is perceptible. but, the higher you go, the returns diminish exponentially unless you have a specific taste… and at some point paying the excessive amount of money becomes status not necessity.
yes, potatoes are conductive, but they don’t have any shielding and the distance the signal travels in those experiments is irrelevant to practical applications. it is essentially a big wire nut.
if your application is long distances through conduit or many cables run in parallel you need higher quality ones with shielding. Granted, that is not the typical listener’s case.
With wine, the price literally affects how we perceive the taste of the wine. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-how-wines-price-tag-affect-its-taste
Although this research came out before the fMRI debacle…
I remembered hearing about it. Turns out there was this published in 2016 which I’m pretty sure was the issue I heard about. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fmri-scanner-study-flawed-pnas-anders-eklund/
As to whether anything more came of this in not sure.
I used to work in the brewing industry. Beer is 99% marketing, and people are morons. This is accurate:
As an audiophile myself, cable selection is very important. You see I have a very nice purple set of IEMs that came with a boring looking cable, I bought a nice looking purple braided cable the feels so nice in the hands and matches the shells.
There’s another cable I got that looks classy and has wooden accents on the plug for my big headphones.
And then you’d he an asshole who damanges the environment.
Stop looking at cost in just dollars and cents.
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