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MacProguy t1_j1u5niq wrote

None whatsoever - This has been a marketing gimmick for decades , whether its speaker cable or HDMI, etc...

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Fukuramichan t1_j1ujs9h wrote

There was a booth at CAF this year that was trying to sell HiFi ethernet cables with a demo to show that it "improved the sound"

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DevilsPajamas t1_j1vucxs wrote

Kind of like how Roon ($800+ music player software) has "bit perfect sound". You can't tell how many times I just stop listening on my device thinking to myself "That bit sounded like a 1 but it REALLY should have been a 0. FUCK THIS SHIT".

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Dust_of_the_Day t1_j1vuqto wrote

Except USB-C cables. My mortal enemy that I hate beyond all reason. I have 8 on my desk, 2 transfer data 10Gbit/s, 1 transfers 480Mbit/s, 2 do not transfer data at all. but 1 of them turbo charges my phone the other one charges only at normal speed, also out of all of them only 1 of them works with my computer monitor.

They are all the same, all black cables with usb-c on one end and uncolored usb 2 / 3 /3.1 looking end at the other end. No markings of anykind on anyone of them...

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