There's no fool like an audiophool.

[reddragdiva]

And to think Denon used to be respectable. Dig this US$500 1.5 metre ethernet cable for audio use. 'Cos the professional quality ethernet cables (at £47.50 for 100 metres) that banks rely on to transmit millions of dollars can't possibly be up to the requisite snake oil quotient. This one beats the fine products of Machina Dynamica for the sheer audacity of the price tag. (This can't be for real. Can it?) If I had a useful lack of ethics I wouldn't be working as a sysadmin. Though I do have a kid to feed. Hmmm.

(I'm sure I'm being a stereotypically cruel and heartless sceptical atheist in my disrespect for these harmless spiritual beliefs.)

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[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I presume, being that the ethernet cable is directional, it can only carry UDP and not TCP?

[reddragdiva]

BDP/IP (Bullshit Data Protocol/Interwallet Protocol), in which data corruption is absolutely guaranteed by the process of taking money from people too stupid to ethically be allowed to keep it.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we've discussed before that if we accidentally lose all moral sense in a freakish accident, then we can go straight into audiophile product sales.

[reddragdiva]

The hard part will then be the artistic quest to top that Finest Machina Dynamica Product Ever Conceived. I do believe that's a prizewinner.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Can we make a religion out of this somehow?
You as the charasmatic front man and me as... me?

[zotz]

Sounds like nonsense, or at least very excessive, but it does remind me of a conversation I had about clock recovery with a flatmate who worked on converters for recording studios. It all came down to capacitance and slew rates and timing errors measured in tens of picoseconds, as I recall. Their solution was rather more expensive, but then he was fairly sure that they were facing a real issue.

[reddragdiva]

If audiophiilia had anything to do with audio they'd be using balanced lines everywhere.

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

Of course you can. Just pay the charasmatic front man every time he says something.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd rather be David Oldfield of stuff, but less obvious.

[zotz]

It seems to be getting more popular, but interference hasn't normally been much of an issue in people's homes and (AIUI) balanced connections demand more amplification stages, which adds complexity and expense and degrades the sound. If you don't have a problem with interference then it's rather hard to see why you'd bother.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

"additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer."

Yes, because putting markings on things improves the quality of the audio.

"Attention to detail when building this cable was used by empoying high quality insulation, tin-bearing alloy shielding and woven jacketing to reduce vibration"

Attention to detail when spell checking the copy however was skipped.

Cables vibrate how much? A layer of woven jacketing provides how little damping?

I'm quite convinced that audiophilia is a subtle but advanced form of hypnosis.

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Ha, I was reading about Machina Dynamica just the other day. They got some brass balls sellng those teleportation tweaks and the "pebbles", wth - its a jar of crystals from yer local hippy shop.

[reddragdiva]

"WE WILL SEND TWENTY SECONDS OF CLICKS DOWN THE PHONE TO FIX YOUR SOUND. JUST SIXTY DOLLAH!" I bet the clicks are Morse code spelling out Y-O-U H-A-V-E B-E-E-N T-R-O-L-L-E-D.

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Oh how I wish someone would invent this.

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

I'm never using Machina Dynamica again.

I added their Top Banana to my DVD Rewinder and it looked horrible. The cheeky buggers told me "that's because something in front of your TV is backwards" - of course it is, it's a rewinder.

[reddragdiva]

But but but DVDs rewind themselves if you hold down the back button! You can construct the Top Banana for best rewinding efficiency using yellow gaffa tape to hold the button down. Make sure the remote's pointing at the right angle for best sound spatial coverage, of course.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

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