What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@bloor we bought some shitty shielded cable for the theatre. It felt quite nice, very flexible and thick.

It was bulked out by string. Ok for strain relief, and was reasonably hard wearing. The down side was the shielding made long runs quite capacitive. So if we had phantom powered mics, and someone stomped on the cable, it’d pick it up and make a loins booming noise.

@bloor @catsalad

That’s pretty sweet tbh. Once they’re passé with the audiophile crowd, maybe I can get them cheap and put googly eyes on them

@secretbatcave @bloor “Loins booming” now there’s a description

@bloor ah yes, the maximally untwisted pair, for that extra interference on the signal lines. It greatly improves audio quality, or something.

@bloor Wut kinda crazy assed spider sht is this?

@bloor

I'd guess this person smokes some really interesting stuff while listening to some very strange music.

And has a lot of spare time.

@bloor whew. Fuck "Monster cable," that's Cthulu Cable.

@bloor audiophile usb cables hurt my brain too.

I would like one of these power cables for my toaster, though, ngl

@bloor no ground lifters... i am shocked!

@bloor I think that's treatable with antibiotics.

@tony @bloor Oh, I believe you're slightly wrong here.

The designer behind these cables knows a thing or two about psychology and how business economy works ....

@bloor
Could it be a misguided attempt at preventing the wires from interfering with each other?

@bloor

Drop a paper clip and cross the streams!

@bloor david cronenberg gets a boner from these cables

@thomasclaburn @bloor I think you mean antifungals. Antibiotics can exacerbate a fungal infection by reducing competition from harmless bacteria.

@bloor I've seen some crazy crazy stuff for audiophile applications (especially the usage of actual high amounts of silver — spending an enormous amount to supposedly make it actually sound different just because of the cable) but this is just... Stupid... Like there's a reason you do twisted pair! Twisted pair actually will have better sound due to this probably picking up more noise, so whoever came up with this is a nut.

EDIT: Ok, apparently those are mains wires. So maybe not twisted pair unless really really well insulated, but still, this absolutely turns it into an antenna, which is exactly what you don't want...

@bloor

Here's the rest of that setup. Those are *mains power* cables — no bloody way that's legal.

The Reddit thread is fun, too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/1nzo3rw/for_true_separation_of_instruments/

@PeterLG @bloor Oh. My. God...

@c64whiz @bloor Turns out those are mains. (And I guess that's 240?)

Dropping a paper clip might just literally cross the streams.

@sophieschmieg hello "cage dipole".