What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@gunchleoc @c64whiz @bloor ...

I have never heard anyone call (what is supposed to be) a huge river a "stream" but ok.

I believe it means "don't cross the streams*" which is a reference to the original Ghost Busters movie. (No clue why it's resurrected these days as a modern Internet meme, but it shows up a lot, lol.)

(* except that one time)

Or maybe it just means audio streams or something. I don't know.

Most of us didn't know these were mains cables originally until that other post.

@bloor lolwut, what kind of crochet is that, they could’ve tried to make an effort at least.

@bloor Bob Pease (R.I.P.) wrote an article a long time ago about "audiophile" speaker cables. He found plain old zip cord and even ribbon cable was just as effective.

@bloor @BoloMKXXVIII

I did wonder if one of the Encabulators would make an appearance. Have a doughnut

@bloor apologies if someone already posted but let this guy put you on game https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/02/japanese-audiophile-builds-personal-utility-pole/

@bloor those are going to pick up SO much dust and crap.

@bloor I know this is a joke, but I wonder how this would sound.
Not how good it would sound, but if it would impact the input sine wave.

@bloor Audiophiles can be some of the most gullible people on the planet.

@gunchleoc (I got it, lol)

@bloor I... don't know what to say about this...

@bloor “AI” enhanced cables bro.

@bloor that's *fascinating*. I can't stop looking at it.

What on *earth* were they trying to do here?

@PeterLG @bloor oh goodness I needed this chuckle. Bless you for posting other people's nonsense.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @bloor I don’t know but I assume they are trying to reduce induced currents in adjacent wires.

EDIT yeah I know twisted cables already solve that, I mean that’s the grift

But…these are power cables? I have no idea. Audiophiles might as well be from a different planet

@neilk @bloor I did think that might be a motive but...

They aren't keeping the "cables" away from the other "cables".

@bloor So… you don't have a cat then.

@bloor Audiophiles are some of the stupidest people in existence.

@bloor@bloor.tw finally I can listen to my youtube rips in full quality

@bloor Pretty sure that is a discombobulator.

@bloor I think I see what they're trying to do. By breaking the wires up and interweaving them, my guess is they're trying to get the magnetic fields to cancel. Maybe minimize the magnetic coupling between the power and signal lines?

I think any improvement is going to be really minor, but I get it.

I think you could do something similar by splitting power through multiple pairs with differing twist rates (similar to how CAT6 cable is built). But that wouldn't look as AWESOME as this!