i asked them if they had speaker cables for "post apocalyptic sludgecore" and they just looked at me funny.

crowdotblack

@zuul https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/copper-wire-vs-bananas-vs-mud-an-interconnect-test.420367/

OG_zuul

@crowdotblack saw that

Luke

@zuul @otherdog Ah no, my shuffle went from Dave Brubeck to Foo Fighters, gotta quickly change the cables now!

OG_zuul

@lpl @otherdog

Cy

@zuul You have to wait for the apocalypse before you can get those, duh!

nocci [cyberpunk'd]

@zuul@pdx.social

cc @qwertziop@chaos.social 🥹

Elena ``of Valhalla''

@zuul maybe you could try cutting one of those cables in half and letting the signal pass through a bit of wet mud, I've heard it makes the sound warmer and earthier

supernova

@zuul you need those cable raisers to avoid interference with the floor anyway. These guys are amateurs!

Martin Boller :debian: :tux: :freebsd: :windows: :mastodon:

@zuul Using Barbed Wire for the Heavy Metal.
On that note: Do you then swap cables regularly when having a wide taste in music (Listening to anything from Mozart to Motörhead)

My, my, my, what a mess. Amazing what people can be sold.

BenjaminK

@zuul I'm laughing but this is most of modern capitalism. From Michael Pollen's book the Omnivores Dilemma. The whole chapter on corn is worth reading

https://dn710109.ca.archive.org/0/items/Michael_Pollan-The_Omnivores_Dilemma/Michael_Pollan-The_Omnivores_Dilemma_text.pdf

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)

@zuul Japanese funky lo-fi barber beats. It's just made up of bits of left over Jazz cables.