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AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

lawl wrote: post #24
Retr0spectrum wrote: post #18

"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!

I remember laughing at Kodak Digital Film. But I knew a few photographers whom preferred to use it. http://www.cnet.com/products/kodak-digital-film-flash-memory...

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Post by cmicali »

ksec wrote: post #65

I have always wanted to ask this but never found the right place to do so. Why, in the world of Digital Audio with ones and zeros, would any cable, be it silver or gold or what ever super conducting cores make any difference to sound quality? Yes it would properly make 0.0001% ( Wild Guess Only ) speed difference due to better conductivity and less Error correction. But if everything gets decoded at the Chip level, t…

Poor quality or really long connections can cause jitter, especially since in most consumer stuff the clock is sent with the signal. That jitter can cause differences in the signal out from the d/a. That said, the difference is less than minuscule, and time and time again people post double blind tests that prove even people who consider themselves trained audiophiles can't tell the difference. Same goes for analog - in practice the cable doesn't make an audible difference, no matter what you use (see below)

Short answer: cables don't matter

The famous audioholics coat hanger test: http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/speakers-when-i...

Also a great watch: http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml

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Sharlin wrote: post #43
bsaul wrote: post #28

I 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…

Sensory experiences are incredibly subjective and different modalities interrelate in all kinds of complex ways. It could be said that everybody is synaesthetic to some extent, some just more so than others. In many contexts outside science, whether some sensory difference exists objectively or not may not be relevant at all as long as there is a perceivable difference in subjective experience.

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Post by tgb »

heleph wrote: post #39
bsaul wrote: post #28

I 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…

We find whenever we significantly change the look of our website or our emails, conversion goes up significantly for a couple of weeks and then most the time goes back to the normal levels. I think a difference just stimulates the brain, along the same lines of why supermarkets infuriatingly keep moving the products around so you can't just auto-pilot your shop.

Yet another thing to consider when doing A/B testing. Looks like you'll need active controls as well as controls!

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Post by JonnieCache »

bsaul wrote: post #28

I 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…

There's a reverb plugin I use that has 70s 80s and "now" modes, which drastically affect things like internal sampling rates (bandwidth) and noise. It also completely changes the color of the large GUI from deep red/brown to cool blue to bright white.

I find that I have to shut my eyes or look away from the screen when toggling the modes to avoid biasing my perception of how the audio is changing. It's particularly bad because the visual changes are designed to evoke the effect it has on the sound.

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Post by themartorana »

fdb wrote: post #19

The "Wat Hifi?" Tumblr features more of these products: http://wathifi.tumblr.com/

That some of the quotes on that blog seem to indicate that different cables can actually change rhythm and timing is really eye-opening to just how outlandish some claims can get.

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Post by alexbecker »

gruntled wrote: post #56
tormeh wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Luxury isn't necessarily crazy, it can be rational economic signaling: http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-veblen-goods/

My favorite example of this is drug dealer's cars. In Gang Leader for a Day, the author recounts how lieutenants in a Chicago drug gang who made only 30-40k/year had to spend almost all of it on their cars, and often had to live with their mothers as a result.
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