"Super SATA" for moar bettar audio! (not)

[unixronin]

* cough * cough * BULLSHIT * cough *

"I have disabled Comments on this post so that respectable visitors do not have to read the remarks made by a small number of extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own."

Here's one of those "extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals":

How on earth can a SATA cable delivering 0s and 1s to their respective destination have any effect on those 0s and 1s?  The answer is, it can’t.  Unless it’s a magical one made of pixie shoes.  After all, if a SATA cable was so poor as to cause errors in the transmission of data, you wouldn’t be able to listen to the music in the first place: your operating system wouldn’t boot, and in the case of a NAS device, well, it just wouldn’t work.

(Via slashdot)

Comments

[glitch25.livejournal.com]

"Mr Steward,

Your recent blog entry was brought to my attention today, and I wanted to comment on it, since you felt the need to block/remove comments on the original post.

I assume you've read the rebuttal at http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/08/18/can-sata-cables-make-your-music-sound-better/

While you may have considerable knowledge and experience in the hi-fi audio field, your ignorance of how computers and associated technology works clearly shows through in your article, and as such, is very misleading to individuals who might not, like you, be as well informed.

Given that you haven't stated on your entry WHY specifically you disabled and removed comments (I can only imagine the ruckus your article generated), and I don't for a moment buy your excuse of keeping your article friendly to the "respectable visitors", I thought I'd take a moment to point out that true consumers appreciate feedback from other people no matter what it is. When you deliberately hide it, it taints the quality and integrity of your work. It speaks to the possibility that you know your article is incorrect, and rather than either defend it, or perhaps accept criticism, learn from it, and correct it, you'd rather push away the dissenting voices and pretend they don't exist.

Were that to be true, then YOU sir, would be the "extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own." You would also be a coward.

Sincerely hoping for the sake of your regular readers you learn something from this,

-Marcos Duran"

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Nice letter. :)