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Nintendo Kid posted:Remember when Audiophiles used to argue about what was the best quality CD-Rs? I know yellow SATA cables make data transfer faster, and black PCBs are for a blacker background in music.
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Which is why you want the blue SATA cables. Transferring the bits too fast leads to jitter.
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Feb 9, 2015 14:29
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KillHour posted:Which is why you want the blue SATA cables. Transferring the bits too fast leads to jitter. I've always found when you wrapped band of green
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Feb 9, 2015 14:38
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flosofl posted:I've always found when you wrapped band of green That just reminds me of one of the best marketing ideas of all time: There was a series of companies back in the 50s through 70s that would poo poo out various cheapy products. To make them seem more appealing, a thing they would do is say "your order will be hand delivered by a uniformed member of the federal government" - which would of course be the mail man.
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Feb 9, 2015 18:31
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I'm just going to drop this here: http://www.monoandstereo.com/2014/12/250000-eur-schnerzinger-audio-cable.html €250K 
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Feb 10, 2015 09:45
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...did they ever take the packaging off? Also an hour to cable up some speakers is brilliant.
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Feb 10, 2015 10:26
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88h88 posted:...did they ever take the packaging off? I not sure whether that site is the most elaborate troll of all time or they are actually sincere about what they do.
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Feb 10, 2015 10:57
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To be quite honest, I don't think I've ever heard a line array design by an audiophile company sound good.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:06
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http://www.schnerzinger.com/technology.php posted:THE PROBLEM (graph A): Conventional untreated conductor material consists of many short crystalline grain structures, which furthermore conditional of manufacturing are laying in an inappropriate assembly. So to some extend the information has to find its diffuse way through many grain structures. Flowing through the GRAIN BOUNDARY JUNCTIONS from grain to grain implies an enormous resistance potential und thus causes a slowed down signal transmission. In addition information transmission virtually swirls in the GRAIN BOUNDARY VOIDS, so tones belonging together are time delayed and torn apart. Above all grain boundary voids allow deformations of the grain structure. This in turn may result in GRAIN CONTACT POINTS, whose resonances may distort the information. A-loving-mazing.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:20
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I've seen markov chain output with more common sense and technical expertise. Although i guess that's a slovenian site, so i hope they just used google translate to create this abomination.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:27
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RoadCrewWorker posted:I've seen markov chain output with more common sense and technical expertise. Although i guess that's a slovenian site, so i hope they just used google translate to create this abomination. And what they are doing seems to be vaguely based on an actually existing technique to increase tensile strength.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:35
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The translation got the gist pretty well. If they have a custom process, which I doubt, it's probably some stupid poo poo like annealing the copper within a magnetic field.
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Feb 10, 2015 19:01
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 http://www.lessloss.com/tunnelbridge-distortionless-interconnect-system-p-204.html This one had me in tears at work. I attempted to sell the idea to my coworkers, and was responded to as one might to a frothing lunatic. Amazing. I like checking back on lessloss every month or so if any new delights have popped up! They did not disappoint today.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:24
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So it's the audio equivalent of The Picture of Dorian Gray? Ingenious! 
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Feb 11, 2015 07:27
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Nintendo Kid posted:Remember when Audiophiles used to argue about what was the best quality CD-Rs? Seriously. What in the actual gently caress?
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Feb 11, 2015 17:16
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I think audiophile bullshit is the reason why I just generally hate all marketing. It's just so dense and utterly meaningless.
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Feb 11, 2015 17:41
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What does that thing even do? It's like a fancy USB power supply?
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Feb 11, 2015 18:04
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TomR posted:What does that thing even do? It's like a fancy USB power supply? No, it's even more than that. It's a set of interconnect (RCA or XLR) cables that require their own dedicated power supply, in order to move all the distortion from the cables to a "sacrificial circuit", where it is discarded. It is exactly as insane as it sounds.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:10
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Sounds bad. Like actively bad. Putting power to an RCA cable just means that it now has a way to get distorted. That's like the last thing you want.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:14
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TomR posted:Sounds bad. Like actively bad. Putting power to an RCA cable just means that it now has a way to get distorted. That's like the last thing you want. Apparently, you don't understand sacrificial circuits that magically leech all the distortion that was introduced by your line amp to begin with. It's obvious you just don't have what it takes to be a true connoisseur of high end audio.
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Feb 11, 2015 19:02
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KozmoNaut posted:So it's the audio equivalent of The Picture of Dorian Gray? Ingenious! This is the most flawless summary of the idea yet. Made my day!
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Feb 12, 2015 00:55
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Ars took a bit steaming dump on the hilariously priced ethernet cables we found a couple of pages ago: http://arstechnica.com/staff/2015/02/to-the-audiophile-this-10000-ethernet-cable-apparently-makes-sense/ Choice quote - "everything's magic when you're an audiophile"
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Feb 12, 2015 02:27
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There isn't really a good place to put this and most of us already know how a speaker works, but this is a nice graphic. http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
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Feb 12, 2015 18:51
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'What makes the Tunnelbridge brilliantly effective is that rather than allow the original signal to wind up in the hands of our "untrustworthy borrower," (sure to be returned damaged), instead it has a surrogate clone take the place of the original signal. In this way, the original signal remains perfectly preserved under watch, while only the cloned copy is "lent to the borrower." '
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Feb 13, 2015 00:32
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GTO posted:'What makes the Tunnelbridge brilliantly effective is that rather than allow the original signal to wind up in the hands of our "untrustworthy borrower," (sure to be returned damaged), instead it has a surrogate clone take the place of the original signal. In this way, the original signal remains perfectly preserved under watch, while only the cloned copy is "lent to the borrower." ' That's so stupid.
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Feb 13, 2015 00:33
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BigFactory posted:That's so stupid. Is it? If I make a non-sensical statement that results in millions of dollars in revenue, is it stupid? These guys are the equivalent of patent medicine salesman of the 19th century, some of whom made mad money and were shrewd (and sociopathic) as hell. Any positive outcome experienced by the consumer after use is a coincidence.
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Feb 13, 2015 02:25
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flosofl posted:Is it? If I make a non-sensical statement that results in millions of dollars in revenue, is it stupid? No, it's still stupid.
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Feb 13, 2015 02:36
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BigFactory posted:That's so stupid. So it's like RAID 1 except the main drive always gets corrupted while the secondary is always pristine...Somehow.
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Feb 13, 2015 13:23
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It's like someone learned about a sacrificial anode and decided to apply the concept to something completely unrelated.
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Feb 13, 2015 14:14
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I'm not sure if this or the magic black box that stops space alien radiation is better? I'm glad that the two more crackpot designs are from the same company, at least. I think the latter is more in line with crystals and magical talismans - whereas this TunnelBridge is a deliciously sciencey-sounding techno-wizardry solution to a problem you never knew you had. Tough call!
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Feb 13, 2015 14:23
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I love that it uses common USB plugs and cables. They could at least have used something a bit more professional, like the Audio Note CD player where the power supply is connected using 3-pin XLR, 4-pin XLR and 5-pin XLR: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/693170/Audio-Note-Cdt-Six.html?page=5#manual
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Feb 13, 2015 15:39
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DarkDobe posted:I'm not sure if this or the magic black box that stops space alien radiation is better? I'm glad that the two more crackpot designs are from the same company, at least. Thank you for remembering this thing, it's my favourite. They don't seem to sell it anymore though!! 
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Feb 13, 2015 20:24
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KillHour posted:It's like someone learned about a sacrificial anode and decided to apply the concept to something completely unrelated. I also like their semi-random wiki citations.
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TheLastManStanding posted:They also implicitly say that the color added to the plastic in cables can color your sound, so they are pretty decent at conflating unrelated concepts. Is -this- why they make a point of showing off their no-colour-added cable insulation? I was wondering... and hoping there is some other more reasonable explanation like... dye somehow affects the plasticity? Aahaha who am I kidding. Even that sounds retarded! Feels good to know that there are indeed -insane- people out there. For the morbidly curious or forgetful, the aforementioned anti-space-ray magic box thing:  http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html DarkDobe fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Feb 13, 2015 23:36
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DarkDobe posted:Is -this- why they make a point of showing off their no-colour-added cable insulation? OK that's it. I'm going to buy a bunch of these and mark them up 1,000% 
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Feb 13, 2015 23:45
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flosofl posted:OK that's it. I'm going to buy a bunch of these and mark them up 1,000% Umm, that is an alien space ray generator, you don't want that anywhere near your gear
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Feb 13, 2015 23:48
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taqueso posted:Umm, that is an alien space ray generator, you don't want that anywhere near your gear No no no. As you see by the colors, they capture the colored space-rays so as to not affect the color of your sound. Sheesh.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:51
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flosofl posted:No no no. As you see by the colors, they capture the colored space-rays so as to not affect the color of your sound. Sheesh. Oh, I see! Interesting that they don't manage to capture any red space-rays, the most destructive of all space rays.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:54
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taqueso posted:Oh, I see! Interesting that they don't manage to capture any red space-rays, the most destructive of all space rays. Saving that for the gen 2 model. Which will cost at least twice as much.
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Do audiophiles sperg about ECC memory? Seems perfect for them: it protects against mysterious cosmic rays, the errors protected against are very rare and hard to identify, and it costs a bunch of money versus the typical solution. I guess the only downside is that it actually serves a practical purpose.
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