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Snakeoil Alert: One memory card better than others ......?

Nango

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Just reading on a serious big aficionados forum from a very very most senior member that certain memory card is "clearly" way better than other well known brand ("es un poco más redondo o completo") with sound being "more accomplished or succeeded and deeper" when playing from card memory on a DAP.

Anyway think we need again @amirm to put light into this. Stop pls testing cables Vs each other and grab a SanDisk Vs Kioxia memory cards and proceed with the test suite. Don't think I've ever seen tests like this.
 
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Sounds like a waste of time. May as well test to see if the bits coming out of an ethernet switch are different between brands.
 
Nango said:
Anyway think we need again @amirn to put light into this. Stop pls testing cables Vs each other and grab a SanDisk Vs Kioxia memory cards and proceed with the test suite. Don't think I've ever seen tests like this.
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No we don't - it will be even more pointless than cable tests.

BTW there is a thread for this nonsense:

Ron Texas

'Snake Oil Department, Top This'

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/shunyata-research-sigma-nr-v2-power-cord

A $3500 power cord.
"This power cord brings an accuracy of timbre and harmony, a musical veracity, that I’ve simply not experienced before. Yes, it’s got all the audiophile virtues I’ve described in my previous experiences with Shunyata power cables. But those attributes really don’t speak to what the Sigma NR v2 is about. "

What drugs was he on? Can I have some?
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Petrushka said:
Memory does differ. Some is faster, and it’s marketed that way.
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And that has what to do with how a music file will sound when played from one versus another? Pretty sure music will sound the same from a 100mbps ethernet interface versus a 1gpbs interface.
 
The catch (IMHO) in wanting to falsify every claim like this - it can be pure clickbait.
Especially on YT and such. What people will say, is unimportant - their clicks are.
 
"more accomplished or succeeded"
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Wow... Sometimes you can imagine that audiophile nonsense might describe something that could be real. But in this case I have no clue what nonsense they are even trying to describe. That's really "out there".

But I just ignore reviewers that can't describe the sound in real terms like noise, distortion, and frequency response.

And of course I'm going to ignore anybody who talks about the sound of a memory card.

If you tell me someone is an accomplished, successful, musician, I know what THAT means.
 
Petrushka said:
Memory does differ. Some is faster, and it’s marketed that way.
Some SSDs seem less unreliable, but I haven’t associated this with a brand.
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But non of this influences the sound - assuming they work at all.
 
Penelinfi said:
So it's not an SD card but an SO card
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I almost was silly enough to ask what the heck an "SO card" is before I realized what you were doing there.
 
Kioxia is just a Toshiba spinoff. I don't remember Toshiba flash being particularly popular or of good quality.
 
Funnily enough, I've recently been treated to this sound quality difference stuff elsewhere, when enquiring about a larger capacity sd card for my DAP. I was actually enquiring about UI performance comparisons.

I'd never heard of 'industrial' sd cards before, or the Swissbit brand I was recommended. Out of interest, I looked them up. I took one look at their prices, laughed, saw they didn't go up to the capacity I needed, laughed again and went ahead with buying the great value 1.5tb Sandisk.

The Sandisk had slower write speeds during the initial file transfer than my faster MyMemory 512gb it replaced, just as the correct advice from somebody else told me, but in all other respects, 'sound quality' included, lol, it functions in exactly the same way, just as it should.

I should add however, that the red colour of the Sandisk, compared to the all black of the MyMemory card has increased the treble extension every so slightly, but only on the right channel, which is weird ;)
 
Here is one thing to be remembered. A company is contracting to have its product made in China. So that factory may take an SD card and label it as San Disk or whatever. That same SD card may also be sold as something else, a different brand. So I don't put a whole lot into branding these days. I will buy whatever because I know that all these things are being manufactured in a limited number of factories in China. In fact right now this computer that I am using has SSDs that are not your average name brand. But they are still a good product and I have had zero issues with them at all. So do whatever you think is best for you. For me that meant getting good quality at a good price...
 
Subob, red SD card having right channel louder is really strange... Unless you got it from *AGA store!
 
SD card quality can make a difference, to ensure error free transfer from SD card to DAP memory buffer.
Probability of error free transfer is higher with better quality SD card.
Once the data is inside the DAP memory buffer, not sure how the different type of SD card can affect sound quality, unless the DAP doesn't do memory buffering at all.
 
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respice finem said:
The catch (IMHO) in wanting to falsify every claim like this - it can be pure clickbait.
Especially on YT and such. What people will say, is unimportant - their clicks are.
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there's enough clickbait going around for the indy500
 
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