£400 USB cable

[Dazstoke]

New is always better than old.
Expensive is always better than cheap.

Aerial washing powder....other brands are available.....must be 5,000 times better than it was in the 70's if you listen to the adverts,yet it was perfectly capable of getting your clothes clean back then.

 

[Rroff]

The problem with this stuff and audio - 90% of it is junk/placebo but now and again there is something that seems completely unlikely that does actually make a difference (not necessarily better) and a lot of the things people rave about as making audio "better" is often actually distortion but in some way that doesn't produce an unpleasing result. One I found recently is that some capacitors that were being raved about as being 3D holographic, etc. letting you "listen to the original audio at its original quality" type stuff was simply due to in some way causing a notch in the audio at slightly over 4K.

 

[Hotwired]

Imagine spending money and thinking you're hearing the best sound ever only for someone to tell you, you just like a certain kind of distortion that hardware causes.

Dam right they're not going to be invited to the next audiophiles meet up.

 

[soulhunter123]

Imagine spending money and thinking you're hearing the best sound ever only for someone to tell you, you just like a certain kind of distortion that hardware causes.

Dam right they're not going to be invited to the next audiophiles meet up.

Related: audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between Monster cables and a metal coathanger. That's my favourite one to pull out when anyone argues that lavish cables are worth it.

 

[SonicSW20]

Related: audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between Monster cables and a metal coathanger. That's my favourite one to pull out when anyone argues that lavish cables are worth it.

Thats a good one.

Even in the recording process, studios are not using massively expensive cables. Generally they stay away from the mega cheap stuff but that's only for quality reasons. If your TRS patch cables are being inserted and removed many times in a session, you want ones that aren't going to fall apart.

 

[dowie]

Thats a good one.

Even in the recording process, studios are not using massively expensive cables. Generally they stay away from the mega cheap stuff but that's only for quality reasons. If your TRS patch cables are being inserted and removed many times in a session, you want ones that aren't going to fall apart.

That’s what amuses me about the analogue fanatics... the recording has already been through a bunch of DACs and was probably pressed from a digital master... but sure making sure to use a tube amp with your vinyl somehow keeps it pure.

Likewise the people getting into expensive DACs that apparently only some cottage industry firm finds the need to build yet the massive companies with huge R&D budgets are somehow unable to solve the problem??? Put aside the null tests that show these things to generally be an expensive waste the recording has been through a bunch of cheap DACs already.