What the, and I cannot overstate this, fuck?

@bloor how did I know this was audiophile related before noticing the captions?

@bloor@bloor.tw that's that pokemon xurkitree

@Moss_the_TeXie @bloor Too little opportunity for interference

@lp0_on_fire
This cable is actually also "wider".
@bloor

@bloor on my journey to FOSDEM last year I was surrounded by audiophools.

@bloor is that a cope cage for the cable within, to defend against FPV drone-armed rabbits who'd like to chew on it ?

@FeloniousPunk @bloor haaa, that was a typo, noise still stands

Probably best to imagine it as Lord flasheart from Blackadder

@PeterLG @bloor

What's also pretty telling is the "power comes from the wall" mindset underlying this setup.

Unless they added these cables into the walls. And added a ton of filtering and smoothing.

@ericphelps there will be zero cancellation though, because they aren’t twisted and (i think) they’re single pole.

To my eye they’ve created a cage dipole. I think if anything it’ll pick up more rubbish.

@ricosuave @bloor

That's why cameras are commonly a cubic foot in volume.

@bloor this one is a perfect introduction to the game where you reverse engineer the audiophile's understanding of physics and electronics.

It's totally unhinged, and yet I can just see the common simplifications of crosstalk & stray capacitance that the designer latched onto. Amazing.

@hiisikoloart @bloor people who use music to listen to their audio equipment, instead of the other way around.

@flipper @bloor (not even joking)

https://www.dedicatedaudio.com/products/fospower-24k-gold-plated-toslink-digital-optical-audio-cable-s-pdif-3-ft

@Turi

Yup. The whole shebang is useless, and (I'm guessing here) probably crazy expensive, too.

Silver wires (high-end audio nearly always uses silver), woven by hand through separators, then all wrapped together and terminated... $$$.

I'd love to see inside that distribution box. A couple of coils and caps, maybe?

@bloor

@StumpyTheMutt @bloor
Of course, Pease's conclusion didn't surprise anyone with even modest electronics knowledge, but it is very satisfying to be able to point to the words of one of the all time great EEs, when some audiophool doesn't believe me.
(But audiophools don't believe true experts, either. They only believe their preconceived notions, and those of other audiophools in their echo chambers.)

@bloor

The difference between science, engineering and actually understanding the world and magic and mysticism ‍️

@drwho @tony @bloor

Oh, there are plenty of possibilities to "improve" this design further - or coming up with something else being even more absurd, shifting the revenue stream in your direction. There are always room for "improving" cables and it will always sell.

But you need to be quite cynical playing on the psychology aspects related to making people believe they hear a difference - and have some quasi research papers supporting what they "hear". The rest is plain marketing and marketing strategies.

And don't forget: In this user segment - the sound always gets better the more expensive the cables or equipment is.

Good luck!

@mansr @bloor Is it more expensive than Odin 2?

@sophieschmieg @bloor looks like a antenna to me

@PeterLG @bloor does it glow in the dark?