What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?
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@bloor audiophile rocks
Yes they want you to buy rocks meant to improve sound somehow???
These are almost $500 but there's more expensive ones
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296707135133
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@bloor Those are probably the worst network cables, from an electrical standpoint, I've ever seen. You loose all the advantages of twisted pair.
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@grendel84 @bloor isn't that what shielded cable is for ( says the old bitch that has built about a million of them but doesn't know engineering) ?
@Crystal_Fish_Caves
oh I'm not saying what they did is actually effective
It's just the only possible explination I can come up with!
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You need to cool the cables, that's clear
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@bloor audiophiles are the biggest marks. they fall, in large numbers, for the "gold plated TOSLINK" trick.
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@bloor Simultaneous trypophobia that makes me want to rip all the skin off my skull ... and admiration!
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@bloor HAVE THEY NOT HEARD OF SHIELDING???
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@bloor how did I know this was audiophile related before noticing the captions?
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@bloor@bloor.tw that's that pokemon xurkitree
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Why didnโt they braid the power cable?@Moss_the_TeXie @bloor Too little opportunity for interference
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@bloor, I think that I'll just note that โwiredโ is an anagram of โweirdโ and leave it at that.
(Also of โI drewโ, but I don't think that that's relevant.)
@lp0_on_fire
This cable is actually also "wider".
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@bloor is that a cope cage for the cable within, to defend against FPV drone-armed rabbits who'd like to chew on it ?
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@secretbatcave @bloor โLoins boomingโ now thereโs a description
@FeloniousPunk @bloor haaa, that was a typo, noise still stands
Probably best to imagine it as Lord flasheart from Blackadder
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@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!
@ericphelps there will be zero cancellation though, because they arenโt twisted and (i think) theyโre single pole.
To my eye theyโve created a cage dipole. I think if anything itโll pick up more rubbish.
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@bloor I recall visiting a high-end audio shop maybe 25-30 years ago. They had a Denon single CD player, almost a cubic foot in volume, for $5000. I asked salesperson about "why?", and among its features was "no stray light can get and interfere with the laser." Hell, a runaway train couldn't budge it. Strangely, I did not purchase it.
That's why cameras are commonly a cubic foot in volume.
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@bloor this one is a perfect introduction to the game where you reverse engineer the audiophile's understanding of physics and electronics.
It's totally unhinged, and yet I can just see the common simplifications of crosstalk & stray capacitance that the designer latched onto. Amazing.
