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AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
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Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#82Without 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…
In a society with ridiculous and increasing inequality, you make a fortune by investing in what the ultra-rich and the very poor will buy.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#83The "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.
It doesn't mean that the cables or other equipment differences, can change the 'beats per minute' of a music track.
If the bass is reproduced poorly and sounds 'woolly' it will subjectively mess up the timing of the bass playing with respect to the rest of the music, as though the bass player is less skilful. Whereas listening to the same track with equipment that has tight, clear and dynamic bass can make the music sound more lively and subjectively 'faster', and it is more likely to make your foot tap.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This applies to a lot of jobs. Lawyers at certain firms are expected to wear expensive clothes and drive nice cars; the guy who drives a Geo Metro to work and wears a "meh" suit is frowned at. Even more ridiculous is the fact that like the drug dealers, the fashion is driven by the richest people, and the less secure and wealthy folks follow.
There's a great book called The Millionaire Next Door, where they look at the spending habits of millionaires. One of the things that stuck out was the fact that a lot of these people have "boring" jobs that don't have "face" to keep. No one really cares about what the owner of a janitorial company or a welding supplier looks like, so there's no pressure for him or her to have the Right House or the Right Car or the Right country club memberships. In contrast, the book notes a couple of doctors and lawyers who are really active in their professions' social scenes and are living paycheck-to-paycheck despite earning far more.
Personally, I like my Shittic (beat-up Civic that is missing half the paint). Every month that it keeps running is another month that I don't have to make a car payment. My girlfriend winces every time she sees it, though...
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It doesn't mean that the cables or other equipment differences, can change the 'beats per minute' of a music track. If the bass is reproduced poorly and sounds 'woolly' it will subjectively mess up the timing of the bass playing with respect to the rest of the music, as though the bass player is less skilful. Whereas listening to the same track with equipment that has tight, clear and dynamic bass can make the music…
> If the bass is reproduced poorly ...
Yeah, sure. But most of these comments are about cables carrying digital signals, a class of devices which only have two real operating modes: "working perfectly" and "catastrophic failure". Instead of respecting the principles of the physics and information encoding associated with this layout, though, we see outlandish claims of frequencies traveling at different speeds and damaging your multi-octave audio.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#86Some Hifi equipments are in the range of hundreds of thousands, it is easy for the reseller to slip in a couple of cables in the range of thousands. It's 1% of the final price.
Of course there will be absolutely no difference with a 5 € Ethernet cable.
Most interesting is that expensive analogical cables are as much as useless. During a blind tests listeners are unable to tell which cable is the "expensive" one.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#87Without 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.
I've seen this in my own business. In my last full time job (18 years ago) my time was charged out at £150 pre day, I setup on my own and started charging the same customers £600 per day.
The difference in the way the customers treated me was astounding, I was exactly the same person in the same clothes with the same knowledge but they valued my skills more just because they were paying more.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#88I 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…
Note that most hi-fi setups use an analog audio cable to transport the signal to the speakers.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#89"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!
http://i.imgur.com/E1OV1AS.jpg
Such a common sound path deserves only the best.
Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899
#90Without 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…
Why doesn't this work with taxes? I feel like the US government needs to steal some marketing team from champagne companies...
I mean, only the very rich can voluntarily pay 95% of their income in taxes! Nobody else can do that! Go ahead and try to beat me!
The more you believe paying taxes is a 'waste of money' the better it works!