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Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11

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On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Rich wrote:

> Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>> Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:46:13 +0000, Rich wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/
>>> perfect_your_mp3_listening_pleasure_with_this_bonkers_ethernet_cable/
>>>>
>>>> Quoting from the URL above:
>>>>
>>>>    Got £6,899 (US$10,500) to spare and worried that a Cat-6
>>>>    Ethernet cable is keeping you from hearing the very best of
>>>>    your NAS-stored collection of MP3s?
>>>>
>>>>    Fear not, your moment has come, with this work of wonder from
>>>>    Audio Quest.
>>>>
>>>>    El Reg notes that the advertisement indicates the age of Audio
>>>>    Quest's engineers. Since the super-Ethernet cable represents "a
>>>>    lifetime's research", and the first twisted pair Ethernet
>>>>    standard, 10Base-T, was published in 1990, the relevant
>>>>    engineers are 25 years old, max.
>>>>
>>>>    "This really is a 'money no object' cable for the dedicated
>>>>    Hi-Fi enthusiast that has extended into a world of digital
>>>>    audio sources," the puffery continues.
>>>
>>> A complete waste of time with an ordinary power cable...so you need
>>> this...
>>>
>>>  http://goo.gl/9pqqKu
>
>> These "audiophile" cables may be a total con job, but they certainly
>> look nice.
>
> If I were selling a 50 cent cable to fools for $10,000US, I'd invest a
> few dollars into making it look fancy as well.  $9,995.50US profit is
> still a huge margin on a cable that ultimately cost 50 cents.
>
Maybe a green stripe down the length of the cable would jazz things up.

   Michael

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$10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-06-13 11:46 +0000
  Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-06-13 12:10 +0000
  Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-06-13 13:14 +0000
    Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2015-06-13 18:09 +0000
      Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-06-13 21:53 +0000
        Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-06-13 21:03 -0400
    Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-06-13 20:14 +0200
      Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-06-13 19:08 +0000
      Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-06-14 09:21 +0300
        Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-06-17 10:06 +0300
    Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience -   Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-17 18:16 +1000
      Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience -   Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-06-17 12:42 +0000
        Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience -     Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-17 23:02 +1000
          Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience -     Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-06-17 17:56 +0000
            Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience -     Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-06-18 22:55 +0000

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