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"i can hear the difference"

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s called SCIENCE sweaty

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I love sweaty science.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I would ask how you know that guy sweats a lot, but then I saw his username.

        Fair enough.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes.

      It’s also for digital signals, so interference doesn’t matter (up to the point it stops everything).

      But hey, it also has a silver ABS grip.

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      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s so lame. They should have gone with gold HDPE.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I would think it’s to resist corrosion, but there are plenty of cheaper metals to plate with that don’t corrode, so even that’s a stretch.

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      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Regular toslink is just plastic

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you wanted to make a high quality plug, you’d use a stainless steel guide. It has to be steel because it’s elastically deformed during insertion, and any plating will be scratched with enough use.

        Most plugs don’t work that way, but this one model does.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That sounds like something one of those humans would say.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The data link is 100% digital.

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s micro plastics in our data streams now.

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  • Darth_Brooks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once had a Best Buy sales person tell me “the improved shielding helps with magnetism”. I stared at him for a sec and said “if there is enough magnetism in my house to bend light, how my stereo sound really won’t be one of my main concerns”

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I used to sell TVs for Best Buy back in the day. The Video Department manager, my boss, set up a display side by side to show the difference between $40 Monster cables and the normal cables that came with a DVD player.

      When there was no noticable difference, he went into the TV settings and adjusted the settings for the normal cables to make the picture look like shit. Not all customers are that gullible though, so usually one of the more savvy ones would fix the settings. So my boss would have to go in and fuck the settings up again once or twice a shift.

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    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But how many people do you think he used that line on and it sealed the deal?

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      • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Given the results of the 2016 and 2024 elections in the United States? Way way WAY too many!

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s for those occasions when there’s a black hole passing through your house. Gotta be prepared.

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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Could just be a regular magnetar neutron star

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My favorite story along these lines…

    Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.

    gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…

    “Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.

      “The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”

      Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.

      tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.

      It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.

      “Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”

      Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.

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  • Cornflake@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah yeah, you know the gold plated connections make all the difference for the fiber optic connection

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    • Bakkoda@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like to head on over the auto zone, get me some of that dialectic grease and dip all my dac cable ends. Just feels good going on ya know?

      /s

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ABS Silver Shell

    silver-colored plastic

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Same bullshit with guns.

      “Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”

      It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s actually anti-lock breaking system, super high end; not many cables have it

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That 128kbps are going to be well delivered, that’s for sure.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically

      Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah but my mp3’s from Kazaa are all 128.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I wondered why the PS5 didn’t have optical out when the PS3 did, then thinking back on it, I probably never owned content/speakers that were good enough to really tell the difference. I had routed the PS3 audio to a receiver with 5.1 surround, and video to a projector via HDMI. Then just played media from an external/had a dual boot to yellowdog Linux at the time. Was fun for young me

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait its actually worth something? I thought it was 2mbps limit.

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  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Making no difference to sound is a very expensive addiction.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is even funnier considering the fiber element in toslink is actually plastic which was chosen to make it really cheap since the distance was not of concern like a proper multimode fiber cable made with glass.

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  • abcdqfr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can sell aluminum free baking soda and convince someone baking soda contains aluminum. Fads and marketing are becoming an epidemic

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/641/

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      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m so glad this is illegal where I’m from

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But it’s Monster and costs 17x as much as Monoprice, it has to be better!

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    • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Septendecupleprice

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  • TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once had a guy try to sell me one of these to my face. I asked him to explain why it was better than the one I got in the box with my DVD player, and he carried on about better conductivity and improved sound.

    Called him out on his bullshit and never returned.

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re no true audiophile until you have audio graded solid state drive in your PC!

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is a funny bit of kit in that the addition of gold actually makes me trust it’s actual quality for the job less.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got two different versions… it’s kinda had to find it without all the silly dressing… the first one also had fake kevlar sleeves… you can clearly hear angry photons getting stuck in the corners until you soak it in a sink full of warm water overnight 🤣

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s a tip. Try the Dollar Store first. Only if you REALLY decide you need an upgrade, go with it

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This community has been on fire today.

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like sweaty, shirtless firemen are in order.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “It’s in your nature”

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