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I've always wondered whether I could sell audiophile SATA cables for those who listen to music from their hard drives... Edit: a commenter below has a link to
by lmz 8y ago
I've always wondered whether I could sell audiophile SATA cables for those who listen to music from their hard drives...
Edit: a commenter below has a link to an actual audiophile SATA cable.
- CharlesW 8y agoYes, you can absolutely sell "HD SATA" cables. To paraphrase, "There's a new audiophile born every minute". https://jcat.eu/audiophile-sata-cable/ https://jcat.eu/audiophile-sata-cable/
- rubito 8y agohuh, besides the BS, isn't the file loaded into RAM first anyway?
- tlrobinson 8y agoYes, which is why this is one of the more absurd pieces of audiophile gear.
- sjwright 8y agoAnything "audiophile" in the digital domain is all equally absurd. The only difference is that some require a half-second of consideration and others require literally no thought at all to identify as stupid.
- tlrobinson 8y agoI wouldn't go as far to say "anything", but certainly most. As long as a DAC with sufficient resolution and stable clock is being fed with enough bits, then yes.
- sjwright 8y agoI would go that far. If it’s all-digital and marketed to audiophiles, it’s a scam and/or absurd. You can’t improve upon bit-perfect. (Room calibration being a notable exception.)
- zmix 8y agoYou mean like those people, who argue, that: "Everything is a sequence of Zeroes and Ones, therefore the signal either gets transmitted or not!", while totally leaving out the fact, that this digital signal materializes in the real world via an analogous signal, which is electricity, and therefore each digital data transmission (as long as not optical) is submitted to physics that happen totally outside of the "digital domain"?
- sjwright 8y agoI don't understand the point you're trying to make. Everything is ultimately subject to physics, including optical signals. Nobody claims otherwise. But it is incorrect to say that digital transmissions must be at the mercy of physics. Digital transmissions can defy physics. There are numerous techniques which ensure that a signal reaches the destination with precisely zero flipped bits and exact timing. And even when the signal has no integrity mechanisms, in practice the error rate will be low enough to never matter in practice. And you know what, even if bits were getting flipped and jitter was extreme, you still wouldn't have signal degradation in the ways described by audiophiles; you would get a raised noise floor. Random error is noise. Noise is random error. Of course this is never an issue. We can send digital signals that are millions of times more complex than digital audio, with zero problems, using equipment that is insanely cheap. The assertion that the extremely low data rate PCM audio signals have some special risk associated with them is delusional.
- zmix 8y ago> I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Everything is ultimately subject to physics, including optical signals. Nobody claims otherwise. Sorry, I misformulated my sentence. It should have read (emphasizing what I left out from the sentence in my previous post): > You mean like those people, who argue, that: “Everything is a sequence of Zeroes and Ones, therefore the signal either gets transmitted or not!”, while totally leaving out the fact, that this digital signal materializes in the real world via an analogous signal, which is electricity, and therefore each digital data transmission (as long as not optical) is submitted to the physics of electricity, that happen totally outside of the "digital domain"? Though, I think you are nitpicking, because, from the rest, it should be totally obvious, what I wanted to say. Use the error correction, man ;-) Therefore: If an analogous signal's "success" can suffer from the material, through which it travels, then a digital signal will suffer for the same reasons, simply, because it is not a digital signal, but, materialistically, both signals are of the same sort. Even if we could create the perfect mathematical concept in our brain and have a solution for anything, as soon as we step into the real world, that is, the material side of affairs, many unexpected things can happen, that have to be accounted for at the next time. In engineering we call this a "race condition". I like the definition on FOLDOC: https://foldoc.org/race%20condition https://foldoc.org/race%20condition > ”Anomalous behavior due to unexpected critical dependence on the relative timing of events.“ Or, in other words: chaos!
- pault 8y agoMaybe you just need some HD ram to bring out the sparkling highs.
- nathanlied 8y agoYou know what's next - sell audiophile-grade RAM. Gold-plate everything.
- jmalicki 8y agoIt's called ECC... And I happily pay for it.
- agumonkey 8y agofull stack audio grade computer, 40000USD
- tlrobinson 8y agoAim higher. That's cheap compared to the $90,000 DAC you need to buy https://darko.audio/2015/11/the-select-dac-ii-msb-technologys-90000-da-converter/ https://darko.audio/2015/11/the-select-dac-ii-msb-technology...
- zaxomi 8y agoI once saw a shop that sold gold plated fiber optic cables...
- walrus01 8y agoMany years ago I saw gold plated TOSLINK cables. They were $500. TOSLINK is a pure fiber audio connection standard that uses multimode fat plastic fiber.
- setquk 8y agoThis made me snigger perhaps more than I should do. I wonder if the people selling this shit actually know or not. They have to I suppose.
- locusm 8y agoThere is now audiophile ethernet cable so why not.
- lostlogin 8y agoThat still leave the dirty old storage drive. Fortunately Mojo audio have got that one covered. “Integrated Sorbothane resonance control under the chassis, main board, and SSDs isolate resonance.” https://www.mojo-audio.com/music-servers/ https://www.mojo-audio.com/music-servers/