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Hemos
on from the learn-more-about-it dept.
bullitB writes "For fans of the world wide patent conspiracy's latest audio format, the latest double blind AAC encoder comparison test results are in. If nothing else, this suggests much of the complaints regarding the iTunes Music Store's lossyness might be unfounded."
As soon as you find someone who starts talking to you about directional audio cables, you must do two things: discount anything else they have ever said to you, and laugh in their faces. While it may seem, to the uninformed, that music 'flows' from the CD / record player out to the speakers, we must always remember that speakers are AC. Alternating current is required to make the speaker cones move in and out.
The real problem is that with all that back and forth motion, the electrons can get very very tired. I recommend that everyone with directional cables should only play their scratchy old LPs for a few minutes each day, lest the electrons in their very expensive cables succumb to extreme fatigue. Come to think of it, the Golden Ear crowd better buy replacements for all their cables once a month -- just in case!
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Mike van Lammeren It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Slashdot Mirror
pay out the nose for single directional cable
Ha ha ha! I love the directional cable talk!
As soon as you find someone who starts talking to you about directional audio cables, you must do two things: discount anything else they have ever said to you, and laugh in their faces. While it may seem, to the uninformed, that music 'flows' from the CD / record player out to the speakers, we must always remember that speakers are AC. Alternating current is required to make the speaker cones move in and out.
The real problem is that with all that back and forth motion, the electrons can get very very tired. I recommend that everyone with directional cables should only play their scratchy old LPs for a few minutes each day, lest the electrons in their very expensive cables succumb to extreme fatigue. Come to think of it, the Golden Ear crowd better buy replacements for all their cables once a month -- just in case!
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Is anybody else in this subthread plagued by associations with the sound of a duck squawking "AFLAC!"?
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.