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

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
> 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
> >>>
> >>>

> >
> >   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.

That is the most likely reason, although for a $10k cat-6 cable there
may also be a "mine is more expensive than your's" effect going on as
well.

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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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