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This is so ridiculous that I can't tell if it's a joke or these people are even more delusional than the Pear Audio/Denon AKDL-1 crowd. https://www.cnet.com/ne

by mschaef 10y ago

This is so ridiculous that I can't tell if it's a joke or these people are even more delusional than the Pear Audio/Denon AKDL-1 crowd. https://www.cnet.com/news/denons-500-ethernet-cable/ https://www.cnet.com/news/denons-500-ethernet-cable/

AndrewUnmuted 10y ago
To really hear the difference a $500 Ethernet cable can make, you'll also want to tape some Magic Pebbles[0] to that bad boy. [0] http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm
- shouldbworking 10y ago
  I can't figure out if this is a joke or not. Amazing how far out some of these audiophiles are.
Kenji 10y ago
A colleague of mine has two master's degrees from a prestigious university, one of them is physics, and he buys bass guitar cables for 120$ and more because he believes he hears a difference between those and those that cost, say, 30$.
- dom0 10y ago
  Instrument cables actually sound a bit different; their capacitance influences the frequency response. The price doesn't really influence that much, though. Very cheap cables can be noisy (which means that they are microphonic, i.e. generate voltages in response to being moved / dragged about).
  - scns 10y ago
    This a hundred times. A passive guitar or bass pickup is going to be dampened by the low pass filter which consists of the capacitance of the cable and the coil of the pickup and the input impendance of the preamp. Linesignals, or instruments with inbuilt active circuits are not affected.
- sneak 10y ago
  Is it possible to get an MS in the hard sciences and remain ignorant of the placebo effect?
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > Is it possible to get an MS in the hard sciences and remain ignorant of the placebo effect? Since the placebo effect is really only particularly relevant in some "human-subject sciences" (medical and some social sciences), sure. But the question here seems to be more whether someone can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking to all decisions in their life, for which the answer is obviously yes. It's actually to be expected to a certain extent; not every decision is worth the same amount of attention, and subjective impression is often a good enough basis when the cost of a bad decision is fairly low. (And I suspect most people who criticize particular instances of this in others do it plenty themselves.)
    - userbinator 10y ago
      But the question here seems to be more whether someone can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking to all decisions in their life, for which the answer is obviously yes Also, in some places, there are people who can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking much at all. Fortunately, they (mostly) get weeded out when they're called upon to do actual work in whatever field they claimed to have studied.
- mikeash 10y ago
  That's ridiculous, but somewhat understandable. That's an analog signal, so subtle differences in how it's transmitted could at least theoretically have an effect. Doing this in the digital realm is a whole extra level of crazy.

by mschaef 10y ago

AndrewUnmuted 10y ago

To really hear the difference a $500 Ethernet cable can make, you'll also want to tape some Magic Pebbles[0] to that bad boy. [0] http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

shouldbworking 10y ago
I can't figure out if this is a joke or not. Amazing how far out some of these audiophiles are.

Kenji 10y ago

A colleague of mine has two master's degrees from a prestigious university, one of them is physics, and he buys bass guitar cables for 120$ and more because he believes he hears a difference between those and those that cost, say, 30$.

dom0 10y ago
Instrument cables actually sound a bit different; their capacitance influences the frequency response. The price doesn't really influence that much, though. Very cheap cables can be noisy (which means that they are microphonic, i.e. generate voltages in response to being moved / dragged about).
- scns 10y ago
  This a hundred times. A passive guitar or bass pickup is going to be dampened by the low pass filter which consists of the capacitance of the cable and the coil of the pickup and the input impendance of the preamp. Linesignals, or instruments with inbuilt active circuits are not affected.
sneak 10y ago
Is it possible to get an MS in the hard sciences and remain ignorant of the placebo effect?
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Is it possible to get an MS in the hard sciences and remain ignorant of the placebo effect? Since the placebo effect is really only particularly relevant in some "human-subject sciences" (medical and some social sciences), sure. But the question here seems to be more whether someone can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking to all decisions in their life, for which the answer is obviously yes. It's actually to be expected to a certain extent; not every decision is worth the same amount of attention, and subjective impression is often a good enough basis when the cost of a bad decision is fairly low. (And I suspect most people who criticize particular instances of this in others do it plenty themselves.)
  - userbinator 10y ago
    But the question here seems to be more whether someone can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking to all decisions in their life, for which the answer is obviously yes Also, in some places, there are people who can get an MS in the hard sciences without applying scientific thinking much at all. Fortunately, they (mostly) get weeded out when they're called upon to do actual work in whatever field they claimed to have studied.
mikeash 10y ago
That's ridiculous, but somewhat understandable. That's an analog signal, so subtle differences in how it's transmitted could at least theoretically have an effect. Doing this in the digital realm is a whole extra level of crazy.