Kimber RCA Cable vs Amazon Basics (Video)

[SSS]

What about listening stereo when flying to the moon where almost no magnetic field is there?

Anyway an interesting fake equatorial website with a lot of effort creating it.

 

[Karmacoma]

What about listening stereo when flying to the moon where almost no magnetic field is there?

Solar wind is pretty tough up there, and even if you're hiding from the sun, I bet the cosmic microwave background is gonna mess with your transients, that's a lost fight brother, gotta get yourself those cables.

 

[SSS]

Good to know, will tell the astronouts if I can grab one of them.

 

[Gary_G]

At what latitude shall we have that conversation?

BUT, What if the either end of the cable terminates at different latitudes? I think I am going to rearrange my equipment so the terminals are on a great circle of constant latitude, just in case.

I guess I need to take in to account elevation too. The farther from the center of the earth the magnetic field would change. But should I set them at the same orthometric elevation or ellipsoidal elevation? I need an audio grade GPS. . .

 

[bobster]

Has anyone seen this? These guys are claiming they can measure cable differences that AP analyzers miss — something about geomagnetic field
compensation and latitude-dependent grain orientation in copper. They replicated the "$7 vs $4k" test at 0.0000° latitude and got a 2.3 dB spread.

https://equatorialaudio.com/blog/latitude-agnostic-measurement/

The section on SINAD not capturing harmonic structure is actually interesting. Same argument as why tubes measure worse but sound different.

Their cookie notice: "This website uses cookies to enhance your equatorial listening experience. We are legally required to ask, even though we do not actually use cookies for anything."

 

[Robin L]

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Superconducting cable on their site, 42000$/meter/pair. Yes it is an obvious satire, Ai generated.
Funny.
Edit: I looked into it further, it's sometimes hilarious, and very well designed, kudos.

 

[Rigatoni]

Nyquist debunked: https://equatorialaudio.com/blog/nyquist-shannon/

 

[NTK]

Nyquist debunked: https://equatorialaudio.com/blog/nyquist-shannon/

You do realize you are quoting from a site that is a satirical parody website, don't you?
Read the terms and conditions.

[Edit]
Ah. I see your posting history. So you do know.

 

[daniboun]

BUT, What if the either end of the cable terminates at different latitudes? I think I am going to rearrange my equipment so the terminals are on a great circle of constant latitude, just in case.

I guess I need to take in to account elevation too. The farther from the center of the earth the magnetic field would change. But should I set them at the same orthometric elevation or ellipsoidal elevation? I need an audio grade GPS. . .

I haven't used cables in ages... I listen to my music in silence, guided by my holy thoughts. I prefer to point my amp towards the moon and my speakers towards the sun )) Obviously we all know that the planet Earth is flat lol....

 

[Alan O]

If a difference cannot be proven in an ABX, test it means that any possible present differences are not relevant at all. If you can't hear them, why bother about their existence from an audio point of view?

That's it, in a nutshell.

If I can't hear a difference in a sighted comparison, blind ABX tests are pointless. And if I think I can hear a difference in a sighted comparison, ABX is useful to tell if its a false positive (and I've had a few false positives over the years). False negatives are utterly irrelevant - if I can't hear a difference, why would I care if there really is a difference there that I can't hear?

 

[Alan O]

the idea of dielectrics memory effect

One of the first clues I look for when snake oil suspicions arise is insulators referred to as "dieletrics"

 

[Gary_G]

we all know that the planet Earth is flat lol

Of course it is.

The etymology of Planet: plane meaning flat and t, for terminal or something. LOL

 

[daniboun]

Of course it is.

The etymology of Planet: plane meaning flat and t, for terminal or something. LOL

The last person to tell me that was a religious audiophile fanatic lol

 

[Ismapics]

This is somewhat related to this video. I want to share screen grabs of a video, of a tour of the Accuphase production facility. You can clearly see the types of RCA and speaker cables they are using to make and test multi thousand $ amps in Japan. They are not even close to the Amazon Basics ones, they seem like the ones we used to get with a tape deck, a CD or a turntable back in the day. If they are good enough for one of the premier brands in the industry they are good enough for me.

 

[xray]

This is somewhat related to this video. I want to share screen grabs of a video, of a tour of the Accuphase production facility. You can clearly see the types of RCA and speaker cables they are using to make and test multi thousand $ amps in Japan. They are not even close to the Amazon Basics ones, they seem like the ones we used to get with a tape deck, a CD or a turntable back in the day. If they are good enough for one of the premier brands in the industry they are good enough for me.

Imagine how much better their QC would be if they used proper audiophile cables and real wood cable spacers instead of zip ties.

 

[Ismapics]

Imagine how much better their QC would be if they used proper audiophile cables and real wood cable spacers instead of zip ties.

Specially the non conductive wood cable raisers from the Amazonas

 

[Fahzz]

This looked awfully familiar:

You’re wasting money on audiophile cables, new tests suggest

A lab test comparing a $7 RCA cable with a $4,000 model found no real difference in sound quality, challenging a core audiophile belief and showing your upgrade budget is better spent elsewhere.

www.digitaltrends.com

 

[daniboun]

This looked awfully familiar:

You’re wasting money on audiophile cables, new tests suggest

A lab test comparing a $7 RCA cable with a $4,000 model found no real difference in sound quality, challenging a core audiophile belief and showing your upgrade budget is better spent elsewhere.

www.digitaltrends.com

It's just fantastic that Amir's rational debunking, based on scientific evidence, is going viral online! Well done, Amir, for your work!

 

[ExUnoPlura]

At what latitude shall we have that conversation?

Vaguely off-topic but I have a relative who did satellite tracking in Greenland and American Samoa in the 60s. They played baseball next to a quonset hut until a timer went off and then went inside and gathered some measurements of beeps from passing satellites. Why? Mapping the gravitational variations of the Earth in order to improve ballistic missile accuracy. And I have another who did balloon-based cosmic ray observations (camera, plastic cube, micro-lightning) in Antarctica. Not that this bears on audio quality (apparently in a tempest cage) but I was briefly curious if there was any fact to this rather ridiculous excursion in latitudinal satire. Longitudinal might have to do with significant mineral deposits!

 

[Alan O]

For those in the UK, Amazon has just dropped the price of the Amazon Basics RCA interconnects to £6.23 a pair. That's cheaper than I can make them, so I've ordered some... thanks again for the test, Amir.