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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Science@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

Audiophiles Can't Differentiate Audio Signals Sent Through Copper, Banana, and Mud in Blind Test

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Audiophiles Can't Differentiate Audio Signals Sent Through Copper, Banana, and Mud in Blind Test

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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Science@beehaw.org · 2 months ago
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The test was simple, the files were clean, and confident listeners still ended up guessing.
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      I only use gold plated banana entwined with meteorite iron, thank you very much. Everything else is just a waste of sound.

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        Mmmm gold plated banana entwined with meteorite iron

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      And optical cables need to be gold plated. Basic audiophile knowledge.

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        make sure your optical cables are properly magnetized / demagnetized, too

        if the cables are running in a north/south direction you want them magnetized with oblong polarity to the Earth’s magnetic field, but if they’re east/west they shouldn’t be magnetized at all to avoid Maxwell-Gauss feedback loops

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      Nonono, only literal pure gold will ever transmit sound acceptably. If your cables are light enough to still be picked up by humans, they dont contain enough gold.

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        Are you part Dwarf?

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          Perhaps 🪨⛏

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          i think they forgot the subject and just started talking about dietary preferences

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      I’m pretty certain most will unironically say this. Or hold this up as proof that you shouldn’t use a consumer level interface because you can’t even distinguish mud from banana.

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      Gold!? Oh boy, where to even start …

      Silver is a far superior conductor, and everyone knows about the “skin effect” in wires. So obviously you want silver coated solid core copper. That’s not even getting into all the other factors involved in proper cable selection.

      I recommend these cables for the entry level audiophile.

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          According to the people that make the £70,470.00 speaker wires: yes.

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            That’s awfully specific!

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      Not unless you’ve had a swami bless it, or you may as well not have bothered.

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