What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@bloor audiophiles are the biggest marks. they fall, in large numbers, for the "gold plated TOSLINK" trick.

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yea, verly!

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Wacky, but doesn't beat the article where they compared the sound of digital music files stored on an NTFS file system versus those stored on an ext3 file system.

I can't remember which one won, but one of them reliably had a richer, fuller sound.

@bloor tbh, data centers would look way more cool if Ethernet cables looked like that.

@bloor seems legit

@bloor @catsalad

@bloor must not have any cats

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I mean... it's ... creative?

@bloor | only necessary to get that 96k bit depth 64 hz sound

@bloor@bloor.tw Why do I have the urge to see and hamster run thru it?

@PsyChuan @bloor The gold plating improves the digital sound transmission by making the light pulses more resilient to damage in the fiber smh, you just need twenty thousand dollars in equipment to notice that it's there (sarcasm)

@bloor@bloor.tw I've seen some wild "audiophile" nonsense, but ... whut?

@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.

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Unhinged Twisted Pair

@nazokiyoubinbou @c64whiz @bloor You mean the Styx?

@gunchleoc @c64whiz @bloor ???

@nazokiyoubinbou @c64whiz @bloor Styx is the river you cross into Hades

@gunchleoc @c64whiz @bloor I know that. And there is a band named after it and other things as well.

But what does that have to do with it?

@nazokiyoubinbou @c64whiz @bloor Well, I was just thinking which stream you might cross when messing with a mains cable ️

@greem @bloor https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag?si=zfEQZABdub3xZ-jc