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  William P

  3 years ago

  Ahhh. The price of pure sound without electronic distortion.
  
  Next thing you know, they will put price restrictions on sound waves entering your ear!
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  Adam Wade

  3 years ago

  If you're stupid enough to spend six large on a single set of audio cables, when you could probably hire an actual chamber music quintet for a week or two at that price, you deserve to be robbed blind. However, if you're that rich and that stupid, you could hire me as a consultant to tell you when you were doing stupid things with your money instead.
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  I Sweilem

  3 years ago

  These were made by a consortium of cable manufacturers of the likes of Monster to help their retarded customers justify buying a $200 HDMI cable...sheesh, audiophiles are just hearing things...
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  Grab

  3 years ago

  "That is driving audiophiles to say things about these cables like..."
  
  That sounds like a classic audiophile quote - utterly lacking in substance, reasoning or measurable qualities. I have *never* seen a hi-fi magazine measure audio quality the right way, namely using calibrated test equipment and measuring distortion and frequency response across the audio spectrum. Until they do, I will say that all hi-fi articles are shit, because they aren't giving results in any meaningful terms. The vagueness of audiophile reviews and articles is indistinguishable from the vagueness used by fake psychics to con people - that should tell you something...
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  Mark Kinsler

  2 years ago

  Amorphous metals are not particularly new, nor were they developed for defense purposes. Their principal use is in the special magnetic steel used in the cores of electric power transformers. Magnetic domains are crystals, so the elimination of crystals changes the magnetic properties of the steel such that it doesn't heat up as much as its magnetic field is repeatedly reversed. While amorphous metals are undoubtedly used in other applications, I rather doubt that amorphous copper would be of great benefit in audio work. I would also want to investigate whether the crystals re-form in the wire-drawing process, which severely deforms the wire and thus necessitates annealing between successive dies.
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