What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@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.

@bloor tbh, data centers would look way more cool if Ethernet cables looked like that.

@bloor seems legit

@bloor @catsalad

@bloor must not have any cats

@bloor

I mean... it's ... creative?

@bloor | only necessary to get that 96k bit depth 64 hz sound

@flipper @bloor I'm a big fan of optical interconnects with gold-plated connectors

@bloor@bloor.tw Why do I have the urge to see and hamster run thru it?

@PsyChuan @bloor The gold plating improves the digital sound transmission by making the light pulses more resilient to damage in the fiber smh, you just need twenty thousand dollars in equipment to notice that it's there (sarcasm)

@bloor@bloor.tw I've seen some wild "audiophile" nonsense, but ... whut?

@bloor I recall visiting a high-end audio shop maybe 25-30 years ago. They had a Denon single CD player, almost a cubic foot in volume, for $5000. I asked salesperson about "why?", and among its features was "no stray light can get and interfere with the laser." Hell, a runaway train couldn't budge it. Strangely, I did not purchase it.

@PeterLG @bloor And that's enough to move me from "That's harmlessly stupid and overpriced" to "Nope, couldn't pay me to take that from you and I want to be well away from this fire hazard".

@bloor power cables? They look like they're 20g wires shielded with a coat of white nail polish and hope. Anxiety inducing if there is actual power in them

@StryderNotavi @bloor

I just don't understand through mindset that would look at those and say "Yeah! Perfect!"

I would die laughing if one of my mates proudly showed me his audio setup and they were included.

Then I'd leave and never return.

@nazokiyoubinbou

The appropriate response.

@bloor

@bloor
That's the ugliest Litz wire I've ever seen.