Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?
"i can hear the difference"
Submitted 17 hours ago by einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz 16 hours ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s called SCIENCE sweaty
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I would ask how you know that guy sweats a lot, but then I saw his username.
Fair enough.
marcos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes.
It’s also for digital signals, so interference doesn’t matter (up to the point it stops everything).
But hey, it also has a silver ABS grip.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That’s so lame. They should have gone with gold HDPE.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I would think it’s to resist corrosion, but there are plenty of cheaper metals to plate with that don’t corrode, so even that’s a stretch.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Regular toslink is just plastic
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If you wanted to make a high quality plug, you’d use a stainless steel guide. It has to be steel because it’s elastically deformed during insertion, and any plating will be scratched with enough use.
Most plugs don’t work that way, but this one model does.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
That sounds like something one of those humans would say.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
The data link is 100% digital.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 14 hours ago
There’s micro plastics in our data streams now.
Darth_Brooks@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I once had a Best Buy sales person tell me “the improved shielding helps with magnetism”. I stared at him for a sec and said “if there is enough magnetism in my house to bend light, how my stereo sound really won’t be one of my main concerns”
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
But how many people do you think he used that line on and it sealed the deal?
Agrivar@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Given the results of the 2016 and 2024 elections in the United States? Way way WAY too many!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s for those occasions when there’s a black hole passing through your house. Gotta be prepared.
Natanael@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Could just be a regular magnetar neutron star
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I used to sell TVs for Best Buy back in the day. The Video Department manager, my boss, set up a display side by side to show the difference between $40 Monster cables and the normal cables that came with a DVD player.
When there was no noticable difference, he went into the TV settings and adjusted the settings for the normal cables to make the picture look like shit. Not all customers are that gullible though, so usually one of the more savvy ones would fix the settings. So my boss would have to go in and fuck the settings up again once or twice a shift.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
My favorite story along these lines…
Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.
gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…
“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
This is a classic.
A few years back in a HiFi - fair there was a seller who pushed these fist sized wooden blocks that were meant to raise the cables off the ground and therefore “prevent the Earth itself from tampering with the signal”.
So he was basically trying to sell very expensive magic wood.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
That’s a classic and I am glad it see it passed around again. The best part is the people that start delving into the snake oil absurdity that is “audiophile cables” before, you know, getting better actual speakers/headphones. Like for fucks sake, your $200 fancy cable isn’t going to make your bullshit bargain bookshelf speaker into the voice of god. Just get some half way decent equipment and listen to your actual music.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I have friends that are hardcore record collectors of obscure 70s punk, power pop, glam, etc. They have Marantz receivers and top of the line turntables, setups that approach like 10 grand. Then they listen to some of the most poorly recorded, cheaply pressed vinyl you can imagine.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Yup, there is a lot of snake oil in the audiophile world. The worst instance I saw was someone posting about an intermittent buzz in their system. Multiple people were recommending a full rebuild, (which would cost thousands of dollars). From what they described, it was pretty obvious that OP just needed a ~10¢ ferrite bead on a power cable, to make it stop acting as an antenna.
I was like “okay, you could try rebuilding your entire system like everyone else is suggesting… But maybe start with a ferrite bead. Here is a link for a multipack on Amazon. Worst case scenario, you’re only out like $5. And even if it doesn’t fix this specific case, the multipack is handy to have around anyways, because manufacturers often cheap out and skip adding them when their devices really do need them.” Like three days later, I got a “holy shit this actually worked. You just saved me thousands of dollars (and a ton of time) on a complete rebuild.”
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.
“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”
Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.
tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.
It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 hours ago
$35 is generous
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 12 hours ago
To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.
“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”
Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈
Cornflake@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Ah yeah, you know the gold plated connections make all the difference for the fiber optic connection
Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I like to head on over the auto zone, get me some of that dialectic grease and dip all my dac cable ends. Just feels good going on ya know?
/s
capuccino@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That 128kbps are going to be well delivered, that’s for sure.
9point6@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically
Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah but my mp3’s from Kazaa are all 128.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I wondered why the PS5 didn’t have optical out when the PS3 did, then thinking back on it, I probably never owned content/speakers that were good enough to really tell the difference. I had routed the PS3 audio to a receiver with 5.1 surround, and video to a projector via HDMI. Then just played media from an external/had a dual boot to yellowdog Linux at the time. Was fun for young me
LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Wait its actually worth something? I thought it was 2mbps limit.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
ABS Silver Shell
silver-colored plastic
scholar@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s actually anti-lock breaking system, super high end; not many cables have it
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Same bullshit with guns.
“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”
It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The biggest impact I ever saw was an electrical filter for advanced audio systems. It’s basically an alternator. And it was the most impressive piece of any audio system I sold.
abcdqfr@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
You can sell aluminum free baking soda and convince someone baking soda contains aluminum. Fads and marketing are becoming an epidemic
UnityDevice@startrek.website 45 minutes ago
Baking soda or baking powder? Because some (most?) baking powders do contain aluminium salts and some people are put off by that. Maybe that carried over to baking soda too.
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m so glad this is illegal where I’m from
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Making no difference to sound is a very expensive addiction.
mlg@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
This is even funnier considering the fiber element in toslink is actually plastic which was chosen to make it really cheap since the distance was not of concern like a proper multimode fiber cable made with glass.
db2@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
But it’s Monster and costs 17x as much as Monoprice, it has to be better!
everett@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Septendecupleprice
Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I only scrolled enough to see the tip befoee feeling like I would throw up
Hupf@feddit.org 5 hours ago
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TastyWheat@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I once had a guy try to sell me one of these to my face. I asked him to explain why it was better than the one I got in the box with my DVD player, and he carried on about better conductivity and improved sound.
Called him out on his bullshit and never returned.
WereCat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You’re no true audiophile until you have audio graded solid state drive in your PC!
realitista@lemmus.org 16 hours ago
This is a funny bit of kit in that the addition of gold actually makes me trust it’s actual quality for the job less.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 16 hours ago
This community has been on fire today.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
Sounds like sweaty, shirtless firemen are in order.
sramder@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I got two different versions… it’s kinda had to find it without all the silly dressing… the first one also had fake kevlar sleeves… you can clearly hear angry photons getting stuck in the corners until you soak it in a sink full of warm water overnight 🤣
alltomorrowsregrets@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m holding out for a sendust SFP module for a faster Internet connection.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Here’s a tip. Try the Dollar Store first. Only if you REALLY decide you need an upgrade, go with it
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
“It’s in your nature”
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
Audiophile are the stupidest conceited fopls who have ever been parted from their money.
Don’t forget your Audiophile grade cat5e cables for your NAS! Plug them in the right way though so the arrows point away from the NAS!