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I fell for that too (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 23 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

Fool! Those cables aren't even shielded from electromagnetic radiation! I can literally hear the cosmic background noise of the universe it's so bad.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    As an audio engineer I can confirm that shielding is more important in a cable than whether or not it has gold plated connectors. Gold plated connectors don't really do much unless the connectors are worn down and don't make good contact in the first place, shielding actually does something for signal to noise ratio, especially for unbalanced and/or mic level(low level signal) and/or long cables. This is really only applicable for analog stuff for the most part of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Not an audio engineer, but I had unshielded (thin) cables in my home speaker setup. If the cables were positioned correctly, everything was fine. Accidentally move them even a little, and there'd be a huge amount of noise, due to power cables going near the speaker cables. Switched to shielded (thick) cables, and there's no noise ever.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    You laugh, but I once had a Future Shop employee try to sell me an expensive toslink cable by saying it had electromagnetic shielding. I replied that it's light, for him to say that emp affect light. I laughed in his face, leaving with the cheap one.

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