"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

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

actually, the quote you gave, I would have also judged to be rude. If I was speculating about the cause of an actual perceived change in one of my systems, and someone, without any ques of humor (and without a rapport with me that made that obvious and/or appropriate) compared my speculation to "magical pixie shoes"... yeah, I'd pretty much throw that commentator into the "asshat" bin.

Add to that all of the net-dorks who were making (alleged) death threats? yeah, I'd probably be stifling an urge to punch that asshat in the face (which I have no problem suggesting is what that asshat deserves -- a swift punch in the face).

Whether or not the audiophile in question was being an idiot is irrelevant to whether or not the collective flame happy citizens of the net are actually a bunch of immature asshats. That seems to be the default level of maturity in contentious discussions around the net.

I haven't read anything there nor here to suggest to me that the "quoted commenter was an asshat" theory isn't well supported.

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and, yes it is possible that cable quality could allow you to boot your system and have a working NAS device, while also not having a full and rich music listening experience. It's not about the quality of the 1's and 0's, it's about the latency in the delivery of 1's and 0's as they are error corrected, and how it is perceived by an OS (slow but fully useful) or an ear (choppy and poppy).

Improving cable quality == reducing error rates == less latency spent in error correction == less choppy/poppy sound as the music player isn't always waiting on new data segments.