Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Zwinter I have had several clients who I tremendously respect (guys who I know are able to hear the difference) shoot out optical cables. Believe or not, there is a difference! Ultimately these customers decided that the Hosa cables suck. If you can’t hear the differences try getting your ears checked. I have a hearing test every year to track any hearing loss. |
A few notes:
1) Did you bother to look at the test I ran to prove my point? In summary: I ran various signals back and forth through optical and glass cables in phase reverse, monitoring and and recording the summed output. There were no differences either audibly or looking at the resultant file down to the sample level. If there were a difference, I think it would have to show up in the resultant file.
2) I work in the audio and IT worlds. Cheap plastic fiber cables are the norm in the data center. While TCP/IP ad FC protocols have error checking built in, you can look at the error rates in the data that traverse these fiber runs. When that number is zero (as it almost always is when everything is correctly configured), you have to wonder what value it would be to run different cables. If plastic fiber is good enough to assure the data integrity of Oracle databases on a storage area network, I think it can safely be called bit accurate. 1s and 0s are 1s and 0s.
3) Cables are a source of high margin income for retailers. I always consider the source.
4) Insulting your potential customers is generally not a good policy. My ears are fine -- maybe you should get your head checked.
Sometimes using an empirical approach is helpful when suggesting a point of view. Simply saying something is true doesn't make it so. Had you suggested any tests or thought processes beyond spewing back other peoples' thoughts, I might give more weight to your opinion.
I've spent plenty on Mogami cables and I know there's an audible difference where they are concerned, but I still hold that expensive fiber is snake oil. Until someone shows me that the 1s and 0s are different between the cables, I'm not buying it.
-Synth80s