Disagree - you should hear these cables.
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58008@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The sommeliers of the technology world. The perfect storm of electric hypochondria and placebo-gooning.
As with most things, there’s a kernel of truth in amongst the dross. You will have a nicer time with a set of £70 headphones than with a £3.99 set. You will have a nicer time with a FLAC file than a 64kbps MP3 of the same song. But there’s a very low ceiling of improvement that both physics and physiology will prevent you from surpassing. Maybe in the future with brain implants and shit like that we can start ramping up the fidelity of our listening abilities, but until then, you’re just trickling an ocean through a literal bottleneck and insisting you’re drowning in it.
Just listen to the damn music.
fondue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No thanks, I’ll keep using my coat hangers
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lmao
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Good gauge wire, if you clean the coating off for good contact. Short too which reduces resistance. Therefore short, bare, and thick is better
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
cracks XLR cable like a whip
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You can hear the sustain!
devedeset@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The sommelier thing is at least somewhat real but it actually takes work. I don’t think anyone is getting much better sound than 320kbps with a good quality sound system. $300 studio monitors can give you pretty much peak sound quality at this point, no unobtanium wires required.
gramie@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
A group of international sommeliers were unable to detect that the red wine they were tasting was actually white wine with food coloring in it. I think that the bar for genuinely assessing wines by taste is very low.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, if you put the same wine in different bottles, they pretty reliably prefer (and describe the rich complexities of) the more expensive bottles.
I knew an audiophile that believed the government had top secret technology for additional audio channels in surround sound setups, like 17.7 or something. I tried very hard to explain how you can buy an off the shelf 128 channel recorder/playback device, and have as many channels as you can feasibly buy and set up, and the reason a lot of media was recorded in 5.1 was because a 5.1 setup was considered at the upper end of what people would be willing to pay for. He moved his target in response, to now the government has top secret 1000 channel audio equipment.
I don’t know what the equivalent of the wine world is, but I hope never to meet it.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 day ago
For most people Opus at 128 Kbps is transparent already