This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The eye opening moments for me were
Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound
ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.
The way audiophiles tell sound quality is 99.99% subjectivity and 0.01% objectivity.
Audiophiles get a lot of friction, but this kind of person exists in almost any hobby. People fascinated by equipment and ascetics who loose the plot about what their hobby is all about.
will be converting to bananas tonight, thanks op
I mean, electrically all of those things will just attenuate amplitude, not really effect signal oscillations, which is actually what sound is ...
All they're doing is effectively adding a small resistance to the signal which will just lower the volume in effect. Adding any amplifier will fix that
This is quite surprising, especially as we often don’t think of bananas, or even wet mud, as great conductors. However, the tester surmised that introducing the materials into the circuit is just like adding a resistor in series, and they’re unlikely to distort the audio too much, except by lowering the signal level.
I see you also read the article
Most high end audio equipment is mostly just rich idiot tax. Though low to mid is a huge jump in audio quality.
i personally find bananna audio the most appealing
So wait, did they send analoge or digital signals through? Because digital means you could send it through anything and as long as it gets through its the same. The cable only matters when you ARENT using digital signals.
Cost does no equal tperformance. Take a look at audiosciencereview.com (ASR). as well as Erin's audio other (YouTube channell). They both measure performance. I sold my £3k amp and replaced with one for £1k. My partner hated my speakers (too big and ugly), and so were sold to someone who wanted them and replaced by budget options that measure very well. My music sounds better (almost entirely down to the speakers) and we had a great little holiday and it all takes up much less space.
But did they use oxygen-free copper (OFC) wire? Because otherwise the results are skewed as regular copper sounds just as bad as a banana stuck in wet mud.
It was never about sound quality. Sound quality was the justification for spending money and showing off. Just like so much of consumerism.
I listen to QUAD 77-11L speakers from like a lifetime ago, and a cheap class-D thing from Aliexpress. It's fine.
HugeNerd is correct, 90+% of audio quality is in the mic and speakers. Transducers make electro acoustics real, everything else is support.
Get really great used speakers cheap and an adequate amp just good enough to drive them. Your shit will sound excellent for anyone.
Explains the Monster cable 'gold-plated banana.'
