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restorer-john
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17 years ago I did this and made a silly thread on AK.
For a luscious, sweeter sound, use a strawberry
Potatoes give a more solid, earthy sound
For a luscious, sweeter sound, use a strawberry
Potatoes give a more solid, earthy sound
MoreWatts
Addicted to Fun and Learning
There's a current listening test with fruits and mud. Posted Wednesday in 'Catalog of Blind Tests' thread. 
Here is a current blind test on DIYAudio. You can listen and send in your results.
Copper wire vs bananas vs mud - An interconnect test
"The idea of this blind test is that the same audio signals were run through copper wire, then through mud and then through bananas and recorded them. You get to listen to the files and figure out what differences you hear.
How the test works:
Each 30 second musical excerpt has four versions.
- Original File taken from CD
- Loop recording via 180cm of pro audio copper wire
- Loop recording via 20cm of wet mud (and 120cm of copper wire)
- Loop recording via 13cm of banana (and 120cm of copper wire)
Comments:
- Pick a song or a few songs that you like and feel that you can easily judge.
- Listen to all four versions of that recording and determine which is which.
- Report to me via private message what you hear. DO NOT post your results here.
- I will reveal the key to which is which at a later date."
- "What kind of mud? There are many types of soil. Amount of moisture?
- One excerpt will sound muddy, one will sound mushy, one will sound very metallic...
- Then someone will come and ask us how ripe the banana has to be..."
Speedskater
Major Contributor
Copper wire vs bananas vs mud - An interconnect test
Do you remember the great fun we had 11 years ago when I ran audio signals through fruits and vegetables, beer, coke, steel wool and other stuff? No? Not to worry, here is the banana mud redux! The idea of this blind test is that the same audio signals were run through copper wire, then...
Astoneroad
Major Contributor
Do you have a license to perform root vegetable electroshock therapy and acupuncture? I know that Amir is a gardener and might find such images "unsettling".
Speedskater
Major Contributor
and from 2013
www.diyaudio.com
Fancy Interconnects? How about a potato, or even mud?
OK, we've all heard or read the sales pitch for interconnects of fancy materials and geometries, I've got them all beat. Did you know that you can pass a line level audio signal thru a banana? How about a sweet potato or even a bucket of mud? You can, quite easily. No joke, it really works...
Aluminum foil speaker cables...
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