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Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?
It's called SCIENCE sweaty
I love sweaty science.
You gotta pronounce it schweaty science… Source: My ex used to lug 50lb buckets of mud up 3 flights of stairs several times a day…
You’re gonna love my schwetty balls.
And if you don't, you might wind up shot, who knows.
Better than 🦇 wings?
I would ask how you know that guy sweats a lot, but then I saw his username.
Fair enough.
It's a joke, Noodle isn't actually calling Enigma sweaty but ironically using it instead of "sweetie"
Yes.
It's also for digital signals, so interference doesn't matter (up to the point it stops everything).
But hey, it also has a silver ABS grip.
I do kinda see some point in gold plating electrical cables. Gold doesn't tarnish so much and is also often used on computer edge connectors.
The issue has always been "audiophiles" telling you they can tell the difference with a gold or gold plated digital connector. Of course you cannot, you either are getting bit errors or not with digital audio. But they do generally provide a more reliable connection overall.
Now don't ask me about my opinion, you're talking to the guy that makes radio antennas with speaker wire. I am truly uncultured in terms of electrical connectivity.
TOSLINK is an optical cable though.
The photons gain a richer sound when traveling past the gold.
The gold is to protect the photons from getting micro-plastics, which we all know is in everything and will slow the photons down duh
And theyre fast!
I did qualify that I was talking about electrical cables distinctly and precisely because the image is of an optical cable.
Yes, Gold is a noble metal, so it doesn't like to oxidize.
Gold doesn't make an external oxide layer when exposed to air. So, any bit of the plug that touches your contact will conduct well, instead of being a toss up on how much insulating oxide is between them.
But again, that's only important in electrical cables...
Isn't that pretty much what I said?
That's compatible with your words. I guess I can't read right at the first time :)
I mean technically you can hear the difference if it’s a mobile setup that has been plugged and unplugged 9000 times. The gold contacts will fare better because of the lack of oxidation. So for analog signals, I guess you technically could hear a difference.
Thing is, at that point the wear and tear could also be hard on the cable core itself and not the connectors, so you will have functional connectors on a cable with a literal break in the signal wires. But I’ll always feel like a cable is ever so slightly less shit if they’ve decided not to spare the great expense that is 0.00004$ of gold plating.
OP is hilarious though. Gold plate my wifi next please.
There's a non-zero chance the wifi antenna traces are gold plated, although IIRC it's mostly connectors using it so maybe your m2 slot wifi module still has gold somewhere
With a digital cable (the electrical kind) you don't hear the difference. Either the connection is good enough to get the data stream error free, or it will be dropping in and out and you'd need to clean the contacts or get a new cable.
Technically you're still hearing the difference. If it makes contact, you're hearing the music, if it doesn't make contact, you're not hearing the music.
Yeah but if a normal cable stops the music entirely you clean the contacts or buy a new one and then suddenly it's back to a perfect reproduction.
Depends on cable type and speed. Sometimes it will limit maximum bandwidth available, but yeah if there's enough noise it will simply kill the connection
Well. If it negotiates a lower bit rate I'm pretty sure the audiophile level kit will tell you it's no longer 24 bit 96khz or whatever the cool kids use now.
But I'm pretty sure most High bitrate systems will have some level forward error correction, when the cable cannot deliver the snr needed to repair errors the signal will usually completely drop out. It will be perfect then gone.
Without error correction, random bit errors in digital audio are seriously jarring.
Having high quality (in terms of screening and contacts) won't have the kind of subtle change it can have with analogue signals. With analogue you're fighting things that can be minor like induced noise.
That's so lame. They should have gone with gold HDPE.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I would think it’s to resist corrosion, but there are plenty of cheaper metals to plate with that don’t corrode, so even that’s a stretch.
Or, you know, plastic.
Regular toslink is just plastic
That's what I was thinking, it's not even a glass fiber-optic. Works fine for audio though and lasers are cool, so it all balances out
Edit: I am aware that mostly anything works good for a digital signal.
Toslink is not a laser just a red LED.
Let me dream
Well the good news is that Toslink can carry “pew pew” noises with high fidelity.
Umm, they are already using plastic, don’t you see the silver ABS part???? (Jk)
If you wanted to make a high quality plug, you'd use a stainless steel guide. It has to be steel because it's elastically deformed during insertion, and any plating will be scratched with enough use.
Most plugs don't work that way, but this one model does.
That sounds like something one of those humans would say.
Fucking humans
The data link is 100% digital.
There's micro plastics in our data streams now.
See depends how you look at it. Will it make the cable perform better? No. But then neither do the diamonds around the edge of an expensive watch.
The gold is just there so you know it's a quality cable. It's like a rolex fibre cable.
Does the Rolex do the chief function of a watch (keep time) better than a $30 Time ?
So you're saying what it really does is communicate that you're a superficial asshole and/or sucker.
Well. I wasn't really thinking of a rolex specifically. Just comparing the use of precious metals or gemstones on a watch that doesn't increase the functionality in any way, in the same way the gold plating doesn't increase the functionality of the optical cable. But it sure looks good.
So I guess, yes. Lol.
Lol you're the reason marketing is a profession.
Now go read my other comment in this thread and realise this was about as obvious as you can make sarcasm...
Nah