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smellmycheese posted:I was thinking the other day. Has anyone ever tried a speaker cable company that just sells cables of stranded precious metals? Silver for the pleb tier, moving on up to gold and platinum, and then some ultra rare earth metals for the big spenders. I reckon it could be a money spinner I think you're massively underestimating how much gold costs. If my math is right, 1M of a single conductor 16AWG gold wire would have ~$1541 worth of gold at today's spot price. You'd have to sell it for obscene amounts just to get your money back and you'd probably have to have them pay upfront. Given the volumes involved and the difficulty of actually obtaining that much gold and turning it into something usable, you'd probably have to charge at least $10k/m just to break even on a two conductor cable. KillHour fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jun 5, 2021 |
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A long lead time after paying out / waitlist to even be accepted to purchase the product is a bug not a feature. P r e m i u m.
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Jun 5, 2021 13:23
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smellmycheese posted:I was thinking the other day. Has anyone ever tried a speaker cable company that just sells cables of stranded precious metals? Silver for the pleb tier, moving on up to gold and platinum, and then some ultra rare earth metals for the big spenders. I reckon it could be a money spinner I think pure silver would be too fragile to make one of those speaker cables made of 78 individually shielded strands woven in a tennis net formation that costs $1000 a metre. Solid silver core 12 AWG, now we're talking. If your speaker wires aren't solid 24 carat gold and thick as an industrial power cable then you're not really listening to music. Wait this needs to be palladium. I think that's mildly toxic and also very expensive.
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Jun 5, 2021 14:36
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Pure silver interconnects were certainly a thing for connecting your iPod to your portable amp back in the day IIRC they were paying >$100 for a cable a few inches long
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Jun 5, 2021 16:29
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smellmycheese posted:I was thinking the other day. Has anyone ever tried a speaker cable company that just sells cables of stranded precious metals? Silver for the pleb tier, moving on up to gold and platinum, and then some ultra rare earth metals for the big spenders. I reckon it could be a money spinner There are definitely silver cables out there but I've never heard of gold, even at the stupid 80 grand MIT Cables level. I'd guess no supplier makes stranded gold wire for them to use.
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Pure gold is probably a lousy material to make wires out of. Not because of its electrical properties, but because terminating the connections would be difficult. It's so ductile that I doubt crimping would work well, and soldering to solid gold is problematic. (see: https://www.indium.com/blog/soldering-to-gold.php)
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Jun 5, 2021 20:06
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You just make everything else out of gold
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Why sell expensive things with a huge markup when you could sell cheap things and a couple paragraphs of bullshit for the same price? Also, meteoric iron cables, for sound that's out of this world!
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KillHour posted:This gives me an idea for a listening room on a giant seismologically isolated platform. You know, so the sound of plate tectonics doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment of *reads notes* The Sheffield Track & Drum Record. Why not the whole distance and hit a triple-isolated floating fully anechoic room? Of course, an acoustically dead room is a bit strange to be in, so the next step is to add a fully three-dimensional wave field synthesis system so that you can accurately recreate any room reverberation time curve of any venue or space you can think of. It should be possible for somewhere between $500k and $1m, before adding your hifi of choice. For only $10k extra, I’ll hand carve you a “no wives allowed” sign and integrate a secret code word entry panel for your new man cave.  I need to wait for my physical copy to land but holy crap look at that third study.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Also, meteoric iron cables, for sound that's out of this world!
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KozmoNaut posted:Reverse audiophiles can be fun, too.  
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I'm glad we're applying the Mazda MX-5 angry headlights mod to speakers now.
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Jun 6, 2021 21:22
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taqueso posted:You just make everything else out of gold Solid gold speaker cabinets for the discerning oil sheikh. I'm the bundled $1 buds. Which you can't plug in apparently, no front jack at least.
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Jun 7, 2021 13:57
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We're planning a small outdoor wedding next month and I have been given the job of finding a decent quality speaker for music to use with an iPod for some ambience while we eat. Is there a Good Approved speaker that the thread could recommend?
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Hm, looked around a little not seeing that much in audiophile party speakers. Untapped marked? Oxygen free copper internal cabling, anti vibration mats to put below the boom box, lead acid batterys for heavier sound?
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To paraphrase B&O's tonemeister on the BeoLab 90, audiophiles are people with one chair and no friends.
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Professor Shark posted:We're planning a small outdoor wedding next month and I have been given the job of finding a decent quality speaker for music to use with an iPod for some ambience while we eat. Is there a Good Approved speaker that the thread could recommend? If it’s just for one day, find a local PA rental house and take whatever self-powered box they have. Something like a Yamaha DSR112 will be plenty loud and good, albeit not bluetooth. We’ve owned 16 of them for years and they’re one of our most versatile boxes. quote:ONLINE LECTURE https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z9hZtKFLRHG-U7Ng2aKerg Open registration for anyone interested in hearing the man himself talk about MQA.
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Bob Stuart Must Be Stopped.
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KozmoNaut posted:To paraphrase B&O's tonemeister on the BeoLab 90, audiophiles are people with one chair and no friends. It's this. Only one person at a time can sit in the perfect listening position. All others are heathens who must be banished to other rooms or dwellings. Shut the door, you'll ruin the resonance! Remember: those tweeters can only be properly in line with one pair of ears at a time. 
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DancingShade posted:Remember: those tweeters can only be properly in line with one pair of ears at a time. What if I put another chair in the same place upside down on the ceiling? 
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KillHour posted:What if I put another chair in the same place upside down on the ceiling? It will be off centre and the L & R won't work! At least not without my patent pending solid gold core & palladium plated speaker cables that cost $80000 per metre.
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Neurophonic posted:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z9hZtKFLRHG-U7Ng2aKerg
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qirex posted:I assume anyone who asks an actual question will be kicked off the zoom, "paradoxes of losslessness and data vs information flow" my rear end Unfortunately I don’t think Zoom enables their “high res” function for guests otherwise it would be quite fun to introduce a simulation of the reflected high order harmonics that video found from MQA unfolding into my mic feed.
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DancingShade posted:I want to build and sell an audio cable that's simply a heavily insulated tube filled with conductive liquid metal (highly prone to leaking if pierced). Ideally something dangerous like mercury. They beat you to it. http://www.teoaudio.com/products/liquid-audio-cables/
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DoesNotCompute posted:They beat you to it. A new favourite in a sea of gibberish: ‘you might be talking to an ear moron’ http://www.teoaudio.com/technical/
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DoesNotCompute posted:They beat you to it. quote:With a solid conductor, or rather, an alloy or element in a solidus (below melting point) atomic lattice configuration. In such condition, ‘electrical response’ , or electron flow, is restricted to electron orbital ‘co-joined’ pathways in the atomic lattice. This is the situation in what we call ‘DC Flow’ in the given conductor. This relates to named observations like Johnson–Nyquist noise. It's... it's beautiful. *wipes tear from eye*
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DancingShade posted:It's... it's beautiful. It really is art, like I'm not a materials engineer but I took the intro classes for my engineering degree and this whole page reads like the section submitted by the dumbest person in a group lab report.
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DoesNotCompute posted:They beat you to it. Call me a heretic, but wouldn't the "liquid" be affected by gravity, atmospheric pressure and temperature? Or is the word liquid simply the product name (they also have a liquid pre-amp)?
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spookygonk posted:Call me a heretic, but wouldn't the "liquid" be affected by gravity, atmospheric pressure and temperature? I'm pretty certain it's just in there filling the gap. If it was relatively well done without any cavities it would be conductive, and gallium anyway which is what I assume makes up the majority of what they use is fairly stable. It's just loving insane and funny and stupid though, also love that they come in pelican cases because it's illegal to ship gallium on a plane as it will decimate aluminum if spilled.
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https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/apple-musics-lossless-and-hi-res-mess-r1022/
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Crime on a Dime posted:https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/apple-musics-lossless-and-hi-res-mess-r1022/
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Also it made the MQA icon light up (briefly) despite Apple using their own lossless codec. I was waiting for audiophiles to say the lossless streaming they don't have to pay extra for isn't actually true lossless because gotta justify to yourself that $30 Qobuz subscription.
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qirex posted:I wonder if any of these guys have ever heard of Audacity, staring at the HDCD LED on your DAC doesn't seem like a critical analysis. It is legitimately wild how someone who ostensibly is critical enough to require absolutely lossless audio is also satisfied with "LED go bright mean good." Especially when that LED is linked to a marker from a dead, proprietary format that had like 100 titles released. (I know it's more but whatever).
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There's nothing an audiophile loves more than a dead format, the less convenient the better [see the recent interest in reel to reel]. I'm personally looking forward to people complaining about stuff not supporting MQA in the future.
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qirex posted:There's nothing an audiophile loves more than a dead format, the less convenient the better [see the recent interest in reel to reel]. I'm personally looking forward to people complaining about stuff not supporting MQA in the future. Wouldn't not supporting it just make it more inconvenient and therefore better?
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Jun 10, 2021 20:19
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Yes but if there's anything rich old men love more than pissing away money it's complaining.
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qirex posted:There's nothing an audiophile loves more than a dead format, the less convenient the better [see the recent interest in reel to reel]. This is spot-on. I keep equipment for playing obsolete formats because I do a lot of work transferring old recordings; my clients need me to have a working DAT deck, a working Minidisc deck, a working R2R, etc. But on my own time you couldn't pay me to use any of those. I've never quite figured out why people cling to them, but I think it's a combination of "you casual listeners wouldn't understand" snobbery and the belief that because a technology wasn't picked up by the mainstream it must mean that it's superior in some way. FFS, there are dudes who are into the Elcaset and are seriously recording music onto and listening to that format.
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I'd use the Minidisc because it's cool. I enjoyed the This Does Not Compute video about it bringing up that audiophiles hated the Minidisc because it wasn't high res enough.
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Jun 11, 2021 19:09
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It's basically "I liked them before they got famous" but afterwards instead.
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I loved using MD for snowboarding after the smartphone era began because the AA battery was easy to source for power and you didn't care if it broke 
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