"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

[guppiecat]

You're analyzing along the wrong dimension. It's not that the cable makes it easier/faster to deliver the 1s and 0s. It's that when they're delivered over appropriate cabling, the 0s are rounder and the 1s are pointier, resulting in (respectively) more mellow and sharper tones.

Or, you know, not.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

[vetpsychwars.livejournal.com]

Hey, that can actually happen. Imagine the joy of pulling 6000 feet of RG62A/U and finding out that, yes, the spec meant what the spec meant, and having to replace it with RG62B/U.