In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

muelltonne@feddit.org · 6 个月前

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 6 个月前

Makes sense. As long as the transfer medium isn’t highly capacitive or inductive, it doesn’t matter as long as you compensate for the loss in signal strength.

…and now I fell into a research rabbit hole regarding mud capacitance.

EDIT: Mud is actually slightly capacitive. Source: “Static Dielectric Constant of Water and Steam”, a 1980 journal article by M. Uematsu and E. U. Franck published in Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator