• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    Date an audiophile and you’ll never run out of quality cables. If you’re lucky, they might even agree to flog you with the Stax Lambda’s flat ribbon cable.

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      how much was all this audio equipment? literally nothing compared to the cost of the cables to hook it all up with.

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        Never ask:

        • A man his salary
        • A woman her age
        • An audiophile how much they paid for their hoard

         

        On second thought, ask all of those questions.

        • Secrecy is how employers get away with wage inequality.
        • “I didn’t know she was 17” does not work in a court of law.
        • An audiophile will proudly point at their favourite budget headset. I mean, the Samson SR-850 is just insane value for its price. Sure, it’s a symphony of plastics, the design is just a straight rip-off of the AKG K240, and the fixed cable is a bummer, but the frequency response and the soundstage are out of this world. Plus the impedance is only 32 ohms: it easily runs out of a smartphone.
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    I knew a graybeard whose cable rack was too heavy for me to lift. 30 years of cable collecting.