What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@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".

@bloor #Audiophools are so funny

@greem @bloor

Sure that's all very well, but if you don't make those isolation discs out of 3.7 mm high density PTFE, you're not going to avoid subspace resonance above 67 GHz.

Also you still won't hear the full stereophonic effect unless you sit in that cupboard.

@DrHyde @bloor plain voodoomb

@fwaggle @bloor I found the soundstage was slightly improved at the mid frequencies, but the bass was really muddy.

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

@bloor >reduce interference
>also reduce shielding
as long as he's having fun and not buying solid gold cables

@bloor
yea, verly!

@bloor

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.