You know the price is wrong when there's a "Fiance Available" on the sale page of an ethernet cable :-)
I think buying one of these things would surely reduce the availability of fiancé(e)s.
AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
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Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#22Without commenting on whether the product is worth the price (I don't know enough about HiFi quality): There is a bell curve of purchasing mentality - from a minority who buy solely based on what's cheapest, through varying degrees of cost/benefit tradeoff, through to a minority who will tend toward whatever is most expensive. It often pays to offer something to that latter group.
This. Fashion and luxury is crazy. Sales may increase as you increase the price.
This video explains the Swedish concept of "vasking", essentially throwing expensive liquids down the drain to demonstrate how little their price tags matter to you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEpMJ3n_wU (it's also hilarious)
Making stuff that people use exclusively to show off is such a great business that the only reason everyone's not trying to do it must be some misguided faith in humanity.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#23Why?
Because will pay it. Some people think cabling, storage media etc. makes a difference in audio quality even when it is digital data.
Naturally this has no basis in any reality, but that doesn't prevent anyone from believing it.
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#24"All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music. For example, NAS to Router, Router to Network Player."
This will be perfect with the new HiFi Harddisks I'm developing at my startup.
They'll offer HiFi data storage to make sure your crappy youtube to mp3 rips don't lose quality when stored over a longer time period.
(I just made this joke in IRC too and somebody sent me this link http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t... )
Maybe there is actually money to make off this!
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#25Without commenting on whether the product is worth the price (I don't know enough about HiFi quality): There is a bell curve of purchasing mentality - from a minority who buy solely based on what's cheapest, through varying degrees of cost/benefit tradeoff, through to a minority who will tend toward whatever is most expensive. It often pays to offer something to that latter group.
As far as I know its just a Ethernet cable and that means that there would be no difference to the "sound".
It does have an extremely high bandwidth at 100 gbps (gigabits) but unless you have a audio file that requires 10 gigabytes per second then it is completely useless (Uncompressed audio is at most a few hundred kbps).
Also the pure silver and other features would not make a difference to sound quality.
So I would say go buy a $5 Ethernet cable as the audio is digital and the receiver will either get the packet or not, the cable can't damage the sound quality unless it's analog.
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#26I wonder if this is an automated pricing battle, similar to the $23.7 million dollar book about bugs on Amazon.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/25/amazon.price.algorith...
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#27One of my hobbies is arguing with reviewers about these sort of things on amazon. Its amazing the crap they come up with.
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#28I onced interviewed for a job at a software company developping virtual instruments plug-ins. At some point in the interview, the guy told me this great story :
"We made some test once, and we changed the skin of the software, to a new color. Every people said the software sounded better with that new skin. Yet we changed absolutely nothing except the color."
I'm still wondering if some graphical configuration ( such as a bright color) wouldn't stimulate the brain more, making it more receptive in general, and to sound in particular, letting people "hear" better.
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#29this can only be some money laundering scheme
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#30"All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music. For example, NAS to Router, Router to Network Player."
This will be perfect with the new HiFi Harddisks I'm developing at my startup. They'll offer HiFi data storage to make sure your crappy youtube to mp3 rips don't lose quality when stored over a longer time period. (I just made this joke in IRC too and somebody sent me this link http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t... ) Maybe there is actually money to make off this!
Finally someone is solving the rotational velocidensity problem!