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Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities

Posted by timothy on from the 0s-are-rounder-1s-more-linear dept.

nk497 writes "Veteran Hi-Fi journalist Malcolm Steward has pushed newfangled Super SATA cables via his blog as a way to improve the sound quality of music, saying: 'My only guess is that the Super SATAs reject interference significantly better than the standard cables and in so doing lower the noise floor revealing greater low-level musical detail and presentational improvements in the soundstage and the "air" around instruments.' If that doesn't sound right to you, you're not alone. As PC Pro blogger Sasha Muller argues: 'How on earth can a SATA cable delivering 0s and 1s to their respective destination have any effect on those 0s and 1s? The answer is, it can't. Unless it's a magical one made of pixie shoes.' So maybe don't invest in Super SATA cables unless you have proof they're magical first."

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  1. Re:A fool and his money... by onionman · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems like a pretty good buy to me. Those Monster cables have prevented any Monsters from infesting my home audio equipment. My anti-shark rock is working well in the living room, too.

  2. Re:A fool and his money... by NiceGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there is a more gullible group of people than audiophiles, I haven't met them.

  3. Alliterate headline by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steward Says Super SATA Sound Swindles Some Suckers

  4. Ah.. he has not reached audio nirvana yet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until he installs the pure ivory motherboard standoffs!

    1. Re:Ah.. he has not reached audio nirvana yet! by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Until you use whale semen as thermal paste you're just wasting your money on ivory standoffs.

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  5. Re:This will not stop best buy from have monster s by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    You conjugation need work

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  6. You morons don't unstand how Super SATA works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A normal SATA can only carry 0s and 1s, but Super SATA carries 0.0000s and 1.0000s. Thats 4 digits of precision beyond the bits that normal SATA can represent.

  7. Re:A fool and his money... by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable 2 used from $2,499.98 1 refurbished from $999.99 Read the reviews.

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  8. Re:This will not stop best buy from have monster s by trentblase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me: You're absolutely right. But don't buy those crappy $90 cables. I've got a special stash of $150 cables I can let you have for $200.

  9. The colors! The colors! by jejones · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 0s are zeroier, and the 1s more one-ey!

  10. Re:A fool and his money... by Grishnakh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those Denon cables look great, but there's some severe problems with them, mainly because they're so good, the transmission rate exceeds lightspeed. Check out this review from Amazon.com:

    Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was hearing the music before I actually wanted to play it. Apparently Denon forgot how accustomed most of us are to unidirectional time and the general laws of physics. I tried to get used to this effect but hearing songs play before I even realized I was in the mood for them just really screwed up my preconceptions of choice and free will. I'm still having a major existential hangover.

    Would not purchase again.

    Even worse, you might experience much worse effects with these cables. This review is very ominous:

    This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES.

    I don't have much time. This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be--

  11. Re:If you will buy this.... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have some 700$ RCA cables you would love. A 1200$ toilet seat that I swear will make thinks "move" easier.

    Just swipe your credit card here....

    Dude, that's not a credit card reader. Stand up and pull your pants back up.

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  12. HA HA HA HA: by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have disabled Comments on this post so that respectable visitors do not have to read the remarks made by a small number of extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own.

    Looks like someone commented about how asinine that the premise these cables could matter to sound quality.

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    1. Re:HA HA HA HA: by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

      The translator needs some work though.

      I did a BS-English-BS translation and got this:

      I have special comment abilities on this post so that scepticly impaired persons do not have to read remarks by Rubinesque intellectuals who prefer not to appreciate biting the wax tadpole.

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