Thread 107077838

>>107077838 (OP)
The difference is that she can't explain why the crystals supposedly work but I can explain exactly why the plating on your cable matters (and gold isn't even the best option).

it came with my headphones, I didn't really opt in

There are also audiophile crystals and audiophile rocks and audiophile minerals

I genuinely feel pity for people who's genetics are so bad they can't hear the difference between good and bad audio equipment. Imagine being born with objectively worse hearing capability and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>107077995
holy mother of sunk cost

>>107077838 (OP)
gold not oxidizing means lower contact resistance
or do you think CPUs use gold plated pins for audiophiles

>>107077904
and audiophile whatever the fuck this ises

>>107078165
parallel power filter
literally just caps on the power rails of the bus, just like you might have between your PCIe slots anyways

>>107077995
>Imagine being born with objectively worse hearing capability and there's nothing you can do about it.
literally the most insignificant problem imaginable

>>107077878
Tell me anon, why does gold matter in a cable?

>>107078958
it doesnt corrode and introduce interference

>>107078958
>>107078031

Do you have something against gold plated cables? Mine shall last long after I'm alive.

It's not only that it doesn't corrode, gold is also very soft, creating a better physical contact on the microscopic level.

>>107077838 (OP)
>he's not using braided silver milspec coax and pure silver speaker cables
Sorry kiddo, some of us have jobs and standards. Maybe when you grow out of your blink 182 phase you'll get some taste and appreciate the finer things in life, like a good set of electrostatics

>speaker cables turning green from corrosion
>turn amp up slightly
ayy

>>107077838 (OP)
>>107079005
ITTFami used an atomic oscillator to keep speed and gold strands for the pickup on his record player, kek.

>>107078031
Have you ever seen a rusty headphone jack before?

>>107079081
yeah, it sucks when manufacturers cheap out

>>107079081
>rust is the only form of oxidation

>>107079112
What other type if oxidation can happen to iron?

>>107079123
ever seen an iron contact jack? ffs
>>107078031
>>107077878
can you measure this effect?
>it doesn't show up on the oscilloscope but I can totally hear it I sware
retard.

>>107077878
You feel 'bad' because your body is resonating at the wrong energy level. With the crystal, your body will start to resonate to a healthier state. This is why crystals can heal you. That'll be $99.95 + tip.

>>107079123
headphone jack with iron contacts? did I phase into some other universe on accident?

>>107079192
They were good enough for frankenstein

>>107077838 (OP)
I use expensive gold plated cables solely because they look good.

>>107077838 (OP)
*loud scratching noises when touched or looked at the wrong way*

>>107079272
>volume suddenly drops by 90% and jack needs to be rotated to get clean contact again

>>107077838 (OP)
Gold plating isn't to sound better, it is for corrosion resistance.

ITT: audiophool cope

>>107079293
Yeah - if you dip your audio jacks in ketchup constantly.

>>107077838 (OP)
gold plated optical cables is where it's at.

>>107079260
No, they don't. You can't see the gold coating.

>>107079281
>left speaker only works at volumes higher than 20%
>rotating the jack makes the right one not work instead

>>107077878
>gold isn't even the best option
What is the best option?

Corrosion is a thing but it's a very minor issue that's easily fixed by spraying some contact cleaner on the cables once every 30 years or so.

>>107079544
>>107079281
>>107079272
>>107079123

lmao.
kek even.
my sides even.

i laughed so hard that i had to rotate my steel audio jacks.

seriously though imagine this but also imagine when i had to use about 20 of these steel jacks inside cheap 3.5mm -> 6.3mm adapters routing audio tracks into an analog 24-track mixer.

it was so loose i had to check them every time before use to avoid having to touch them later. sometimes it was enough to just touch them once, if that didn't work you touch them twice to get the sound back.

and if you're wondering why i had adapters instead of getting straight up 6.3 plugged cables, is because it was cheaper to max it out like this believe it or not.

each cable had double the amount of contact points as normal cables.
it was really terrible when you think about it.

>>107078958
It feels premium, pleases the eyes and mind, therefore makes sound sound better as overall vibe and mood improves. The world runs on placebo, my friend.

>>107077838 (OP)
They're not the same. Gold is revered by alchemists and drives away evil spirits. Jesus was literally gifted gold when he was born. Crystals are used by witches.

>>107077995
I genuinely feel pity for people who's genetics are so bad they have a microscopic dick so they have to pretend to be able to hear the difference between "good" and "bad" audio equipment. Imagine being born with objectively tiny penis and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>107077995
would you be willing to go on livestream to perform a double blind discrimination test?

>>107079281
>>107079544
>percentages
fake audiophiles out

>>107081231
of course not, every one of these retards fail blind tests every single time

>>107077878
>implying there's a difference
yet audiophiles will even buy crystal infused routers. yes routers for audio over ethernet, which you know, is digital so there is no signal loss at all.

even shit like https://dela.global/s100-1/
goes for >$2000 when they're just cheap retail routers rebranded with 'magic rocks' put insides

>>107078165
>didnt even bother to chamfer the board
>20 bucks of solid electrolyte capacitors on a 5 dollar board with a 2 dollar flange
>... to filter the digital supply rail
>... for audio going over a digital bus
>"that'll be uhhHHHh $(($RAND + 2000)) dollas please"
God, who needs an actual EE job when scamming retards is so fast and easy?

Men have magic crystals too!

>>107081231
Between different pairs of headphones? Between different cables?

>>107077838 (OP)
>brokie whos never dealt with cables in a non-trivial situation
Get back to me when you've had to deal with with a bunch of used unplated TT cables and a collection of 96 point patchbays..

>>107082415
between an $5 chinesium cable with normal copper brass nickel (or whatever they're made of) contacts and an $500 "premium" cable

>>107080489
If only the world didn't run on placebo...

>>107082839
No need for a $500 cable, even a cheaper $30-40 cable I'll blind test. There are conditions so there's no fuckery though. 1. I select the headphones. 2. Any audio files used for testing need to be either FLAC or 192kbps ogg vbr and be EDM tracks produced in the last 10 years from acclaimed artists.

>>107083347
>I select the headphones.
Let me guess, you're going to pick the crappiest low ohm dogshit you can find and jostle around the whole time to see if the cables pick anything up.

I'm currently using a 3 dollar cable on my 300 dollar headphones. Sounds great.

>>107077838 (OP)
gold plating is extremely common in electrical connections anon, it's used because gold has excellent electrical conductivity and doesn't tarnish easily, possibly also because it's quite soft, but i'm not sure if that's a consideration
it's standard in a a lot of places to the point where it's not even advertised, idk what chinesium you're buying that doesn't even have plated jacks

>>107083388
No its going to be a cheap pair of OneAdio, something average consumers would use.
Post your audio cable and headphones.

>>107083423
oh and of course, this is about gold plating, not solid gold or gold in the wires themselves, just micron-level thickness, cents worth of gold

>>107077995
I'll get reborn infinitely many times and eventually get good ears so it's literally a non-issue

Huh?

>>107083535
it's a bait thread, you'll get used to them

>>107083427
This cable (sorry, it was actually 5 bucks) and a pair of R70x. You might ask how I'm using the shitty little 2 pin earbud connectors, I cut them off and replaced them with 2.5mm jacks that cost me about a dollar. So it's a 6 dollar cable, and it's so far lasted me over 2 years, which is fairly good as far as cables go.

>>107077838 (OP)
Okay but where 2 cop crystal cables?

>>107081641
Wanna charge our crystals together, anon? :3

>>107081545
>random dots in the middle of the page that don't do anything
what degree of indian engineering do you need to do something like this

>>107081545
>routers for audio over ethernet, which you know, is digital so there is no signal loss at all.
hold the fuck on, people will pay for that? with USB-C it is now trivial to stream audio digitally

>>107084186
i've worked in audio engineering, specifically renting loudspeakers, woofers, mixing tables and amps for concerts and events, audiophiles are the most gullible customers when it comes to audio equipment. the biggest improvement to your audio setup is always properly sound-proofing your listening room/concert/club.
even the most expensive speakers will sound like shit if they don't get enough air in, or can't push air out.

headphones/earphones can't produce bass due to sound cavity requirement, if you find a way to produce bass in the volume of one of those, then you have a billion dollar patent idea.

the only reason audio professional care about analog audio is not because of quality, but because of latency. encoding/decoding digitized streams adds latency which you need to take into account in pretty much every single equipment that will handle sound: amps, mixing tables, loudspeakers, etc..

>>107077838 (OP)
lmao, that's nothing, get a load of this!

>>107084419
this, I've known clubs that had three rooms blasting with outstanding sound separation between them, and clubs made from old opera houses with circular rooms and great acoustics. you can stick funktions in a warehouse and they won't sound any better than those JBL bluetooth things that people bring to parties

>>107084765
i've been to parties in warehouse that had roughly ~35kW of sound equipment, it sounded absolutely horrible, outside you could hear the metal sheet vibrating and inside the reverb was making the whole thing unbearable, even though 35kW outside would have sounded great

>iron or steel plugs
Presumably retarded in the face of every manufacturer using brass with nickel and/or gold plating. To make things more confusing, some stupid companies call their nickel-plating "silder-plating", but it is just nickel. Hold it up to real silver utensils, jewelry, or Furutech audiophoolism silver plugs and it is plainly obvious. Science has not found a way to dupe the luster of different metals, silver is very "white" versus nickel (looks "black") and polished steel ("blackest"). Luster is a property that comes from the electron orbital configuration of each metal and alloy.

Also,
>"jacks" referring to plugs or sockets
Whoever invented this trend deserves to get his cranium stuffed full of "jacks" until it explodes for this mind-boggling stupidity.

>>107077838 (OP)
That meme is so old, no one parrots it except you, retard. Gold-plating is solely for corrosion resistance. That's no meme.

>>107079578
Most people are idiots that need to do it every 4-8 years instead. 30 is for those that take care of their stuff.

>>107084589
Plastic optical connectors are prone to cracking and breaking. Metal ones are immune and the gold plating makes them look pretty cool, retardicus.