News $1,250 Diamond-Branded Ethernet Cables Lure Audiophiles With Silver and Carbon

[bit_user]

Insouciant, yet slightly demanding?

Obtuse with a hint of decadence?

Vaguely triangular without being intrusive?

Put down the thesaurus and back away from the keyboard.

 

[KraakBal]

Your ethernet chip surely to hear the 1s and 0s much better, and be 100% sure they are a 1 or 0 vs 99.999%

 

[SunMaster]

As hardcore audiophile and occasional musician, I am often loured into reading articles like this to see what is up. I often have to fall back on reason using my engineering skills and checking the intersection of marketing hype with true expectations, and the hype very very rarely makes correct sense. Often the marketing boils down to marketing claims that can be held up in court.

Yes, court. The major technical claim here sounds like they are claiming that there would be reduced Ethernet packet loss.

So these guys with their cable are technically correct. I would trust that they can prove that they reduce bad data packets from getting through. Without their products on a continuous audio feed, you probably

We're not talking read errors on a harddrive here, and a packet that needs retransmitting and gets correctly retransmitted does not cause any problems at all with the playback. It's jibberish, for absolutely all practical purposes, unless comparing it to a broken ethernet cable.

 

[Math Geek]

clicks buy on some stock

i highly recommend EVERY audiophile buy multiple lengths of these cables. i mean every audiophile KNOWS that the length is going to impact the awesomeness of your mp3 as much as anything else. wait you didn't know that?? and you call yourself an audiophile??

well anyway, buy multiple lengths so you can adjust and fine tune to get that EXACT sound only you can hear errrr appreciate. this way you can be even more descriptive and smug when telling everyone else how awesome your set-up is !!!

go on.... quick....click buy.... you NNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD this....

 

[cirdecus]

It doesn't have crystal sprinkles... i won't buy it

 

[USAFRet]

move along, folks. nothing to see here at this socio-ecological train-wreck-site. worthy neither the pixels nor the neurons.

Did you not read between the lines?
The writeup on this was laughing at this thing, not praising it.

 

[helper800]

So, this covers Ethernet cables, but what about Wi-Fi?
I remember a joke from early 2000s, when home Wi-Fi became popular.
A company called Monster, who made overpriced cables, started to sell Wi-Fi air purifiers, so signal would be cleaner. Where are they now?

I will just leave this here: http://monsterstore.com/

 

[bit_user]

Did you not read between the lines?
The writeup on this was laughing at this thing, not praising it.

Personally, I don't care what slant the author is taking. There's an endless amount of nonsense products out there they could potentially ridicule. I don't enjoy these articles and would rather not see them cluttering up my tech news & reviews.

 

[USAFRet]

Personally, I don't care what slant the author is taking. There's an endless amount of nonsense products out there they could potentially ridicule. I don't enjoy these articles and would rather not see them cluttering up my tech news & reviews.

Vote with your Left Mouse Button.

Don't click on it.

Eventually they may see that clicks and interest on these go down, and don't do it so often.

 

[bit_user]

Don't click on it.

Eventually they may see that clicks and interest on these go down, and don't do it so often.

Yes, that's the same thing I advocated, back in post #23. I only replied to your post to clarify that it changes nothing for me whether this article was written in a serious or tongue-in-cheek tone, because they're reporting on nonsense either way and I don't consider that worthwhile.

 

[USAFRet]

because they're reporting on nonsense either way and I don't consider that worthwhile.

Ultimately, they only post articles that will result in clicks and ad revenue.
There is actually limited space and resources.

Something that is not 'of interest' will not be posted. Eventually.

 

[_Shatta_AD_]

As a true OCD Audiophile, I can assure you that my $6,800,000 home audio setup using all the best tech available today from isolation, room design, power delivery, wiring to equipment, yet the sound isn't perfect probably due to interference from cosmic radiation and interdimensional mingling. So any great invention like this ethernet cable will help even if it reduces noise by 0.1^50%. Oh and I listen to only classical for at least 20 minutes a week cause I've got a life.