Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: $10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience - Audiophile nonsense turned up to 11 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:02:35 +1000 Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net v/0mVbTrirxYJFJGZOFHUgHpiwFm+UHUPRAw/G08PCEW9tvohy Cancel-Lock: sha1:MKJd3j7MDMqQuPgx/765CeemhKE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:7952 On 17/06/2015 10:42 PM, Johnny B Good wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:16:52 +1000, Sylvia Else wrote: > >> On 13/06/2015 11:14 PM, Bob Eager 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 >>> >>> >> So many parts! What's the MTBF? >> > > Never mind a meaningless MTBF figure, what about the MTTF? OTOH, if your > first question concerns reliability, you've obviously got money to burn > (and in huge quantities). I wish. > > What gets me is how Russ has managed to avoid being shut down by an > irate customer considering that his target customers, for the most part, > will have the the where-with-all (and then some!) to afford to pay their > lawyer’s emergency plumbing repair bills without so much as batting an > eyelid. I can't really see why the target customers would involve their lawyers. I expect the cables work, in the sense that they perform in the same way that $5 cables do. The audiophile who buys this stuff is hardly going to be the kind of person who starts performing standardised tests. They'll just convince themselves that what they hear is better with the new cable. Sylvia.