The $10k ethernet cable
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... huh?
Both Ethernet cable and Raspberry are capable of being in the middle of transmitting bytes from the source to the speaker.
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Both Ethernet cable and Raspberry are capable of being in the middle of transmitting bytes from the source to the speaker.
And... so... did you have some kind of point you were making? Or...?
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And... so... did you have some kind of point you were making? Or...?
Yes, that Ethernet cable isn't sound equipment. If it is, so is Raspberry.
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I wish. But no.
And even then, with the legal systems today, the cost of shutting down a company because of their bogus claims is probably more than $10,000. Who's gonna pay for that just to protect some dumbasses with too much money?
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You're forgetting an important point:
Many audiophiles (especially the ones who buy this shit) are idiots. If you tell them that their Ethernet cable is audio equipment they'll buy your 10k cable
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And my Raspberry.
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If you can sell a Raspberry Pi to an idiot for a few thousand dollars then go for it
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It's beautiful how ironic it would be.
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The embedded system automatically scans each bit as it passes through to ensure there has been no degradation since the signal left the source. We recommend one PiStake for every 2 metres your audio has to travel. For best results, connect them with cables from our partners AudioQuest
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Wi fis are too unreliable, what if there's something causing interference on the way?
If the insulation on a network cable can scramble the music and play the notes out of order, just think of how jumbled it'll be when the signal is bouncing around in the air.
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If the insulation on a network cable can scramble the music and play the notes out of order, just think of how jumbled it'll be when the signal is bouncing around in the air.
Especially considering that air is (typically) an insulator, and therefore slows down the signal(*), and that's a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio.
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Technically"Pedantically", the speed of light is slower in air than in vacuum, so there. Thus, for best results, I recommend vacating air from your "listening room" if you're streaming audio via WiFi.
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Yes, that Ethernet cable isn't sound equipment.
Everything I've listened to in the last decade or so has come over an Ethernet cable.
If it is, so is Raspberry.
If you use a Raspberry Pi to play music, then yes it is sound equipment.
And I still don't get what your point is, exactly. But I'm just gonna file this under "word vomit" and move on.
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Everything I've listened to in the last decade or so has come over an Ethernet cable.
You never listen to music on your phone? Or on s laptop over wifi? What about music stored locally on the device?
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Thus, for best results, I recommend vacating air from your "listening room" if you're streaming audio via WiFi.
Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, so that would make a poor listening room. Vacate the air in the equipment closet and pressurize the listening room to a few hundred atmospheres. Even better, fill it with a dense medium like tungsten.
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You never listen to music on your phone? Or on s laptop over wifi? What about music stored locally on the device?
You never pedantic the dickweed? Or on a pedantic dickweed over dickweed-fi? What about music pedantic'd locally on the dickweed?
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About $4,500
About $5,500
Someone's paying far too much for their cars. Does the dealer like driving his Ferrari?
Any car I've seen for sale under $2k is a POS that will need at least $3k in repairs in the first year.
Some people like fixing cars for fun. They do things like going to scrapyards in order to pick up parts for very cheap from wrecked vehicles, etc. (One of my brothers is like that.)
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Sure, but for people who are not into cars, it seems hypocritical to insist that everyone can get a decent car for under $2k.... I mean, you've got to count the market rate of your own labor fixing it at the very least.
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Not a dealer, I used the average price on a private second-hand car website
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Everything I've listened to in the last decade or so has come over an Ethernet cable.
FM anyone?
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Gaska really is the living embodiment of Slashdot, isn't he?
He even does that extraordinarily unfunny "X, anyone?" joke. Unironically.
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Gaska really is the living embodiment of Slashdot, isn't he?
I'm not.He even does that extraordinarily unfunny "X, anyone?" joke. Unironically.
"X anyone" is the shortest way to tell "you're ignoring X here, and it's still the thing".
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Well it was either make fun of your Slashdot-ness or do another "pedantic dickweed" post.
Unfunny Slashdot memes, anyone?!??!?!
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I agree with @Gaska, eggs are still a thing.
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Seems like the regular ethernet cable has some pretty awesome magic if it can rearrange the data in the cable without destroying the bit parity for the file I'm downloading.
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I agree with @Gaska, eggs are still a thing.
Flag me for woosh please. because I totally don't get what kind eggs you mean.
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He's egging you on
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Flag me for woosh please. because I totally don't get what kind eggs you mean.
Two Ronnies - F.U.N.E.X? – 02:07
— HellblazerJC
It could be completely the wrong reference, but I think it explains the point well enough regardless
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Flag me for woosh please. because I totally don't get what kind eggs you mean.
Don't worry, it was slightly obscure...
"you're ignoring X here, and it's still the thing"
I agree with @Gaska, eggs are still a thing.
I was making a play on words that "X" sounds like "eggs".
Filed under:
Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield - Eggsbox 360 – 02:53
— uTubeTrending
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I see. There was no chance at all I would ever see this video in my entire life, much less remember it. I guess that means no badge for me?
As a bonus fact, I had to repeat every line in this video ten times because I couldn't make out what they were talking about.
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I was making a play on words that "X" sounds like "eggs".
Well, in Polish, it's more like "hicks".
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Somehow I keep catching myself saying "haitch-tee access" instead of "aitch-tea access". Guess I've been watching too many british tutorial videos lately
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Hehe, I can imagine you trying to sound posh whilst saying it.
Not all of us brits talk posh, some of us sound like we are from the north on Thrones.
Filed under: fancy some aich-tee-access Mary Poppins?
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Well, I pronounce it as "hah-teh-ack-cess". With the "c" that sounds neither like k nor s - it's hard to explain in terms of English because this sound doesn't exist in English language whatsoever.
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Is that the "I've got something caught in my throat" sound?
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I don't think haitch is particularly posh. It varies across regional accents, but I'm pretty sure the accepted Queen's English is aitch
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No, not that one. I meant the "my jaws are stuck together" sound.
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I picked up a number of odd pronunciation quirks in Manchester, I'm not trying to sound anything XD
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Unfunny Slashdot memes, anyone?!??!?!
I'll take "Unfunny Slashdot memes" for $800...
Cue Weird Al
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If I knew which popular internet memes are Slashdot according to @blakeyrat and which are not, I would be one Seicento richer.
Filed under: You keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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If I knew which popular internet memes are Slashdot according to @blakeyrat and which are not, I would be
one Seicento richera much more efficient blakeytroll.He likes to assume everyone saw the same things wherever he saw them (or didn't, so he can tell you how uncool you are).
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Filed under: You keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what you think it
meansmemes.
Filed under: FTFY
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I prefer Seicento - a blakeytroll can't make you riding dirty.
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Speaking as an expert on cheap cars (I race them), most people just aren't willing to put in the legwork to get a good car cheap. It's very hard, and involves stalking Craigslist and similar,and when something pops up, immediately leaping into the truck (with trailer already attached) with a wad of 50 dollar bills to go get it. Just being there with cash ready to do the transaction RIGHT NOW is worth an astounding amount of money.
I know a guy who finances his entire racing program (including 100k worth of truck and trailer) by buying cars that way and selling them at a more leisurely pace for more money
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Speaking as an expert on cheap cars (I race them), most people just aren't willing to put in the legwork to get a good car cheap. It's very hard, and involves stalking Craigslist and similar,and when something pops up, immediately leaping into the truck (with trailer already attached) with a wad of 50 dollar bills to go get it. Just being there with cash ready to do the transaction RIGHT NOW is worth an astounding amount of money.
While I'm no petrolhead, my brother is — he and his best friend stalk eBay looking for things that tickle their fancy — and he says that being willing to go to strange out of the way farms is a reasonable tactic, provided you're willing to deal with the “interesting” chromosome counts of the current owners.
No way would you get me doing it.
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Actually, the type of insulation does affect the propagation rate of the signal down the cable.
This effect varies at different frequencies, and can make the difference between the data getting through and it not.
However, that label on the cable saying "Category 5" (or 5e or 6) already says that the insulation is of the correct type.
Making the signal go faster might even take it out of spec and stop it working. (I don't recall the propagation speed of Cat5, on a train and not that crazy yet.)
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This effect varies at different frequencies, and can make the difference between the data getting through and it not.
I don't exactly know the details about how Ethernet works, but wouldn't (gigabit) Ethernet use mostly a single frequency anyway? I.e., why exactly are there different frequencies?
(Then, yeah, sure, you have to make sure that the cable is rated for that speed, and avoid nasty effects. Btw - are non-linear effects like chirping(*) a thing in ethernet? Or is that only a problem for optic fibers?)
(*) Random non-linear effect that I recall messing up communications.
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I don't exactly know the details about how Ethernet works, but wouldn't (gigabit) Ethernet use mostly at a single frequency anyway? I.e., why exactly are there different frequencies?
No, Ethernet is a baseband system (i.e. there's no "carrier", just an encoded digital signal being spit out on the wire via some magnetics).