Down voted to all hell downloaded all hell but you're not wrong.

lamp wire tied to rounded nails

Speakers that I have actually use something like that between the speaker with the powered amp and the other one. Just a cord that I needed to hook into springed connectors. It works fine.

It sounds like you just described all of the people that are not the target market, as opposed to PC users.. that would use pcs, with software to drive a laser.

My first job out of University was for a CNC laser and turret company and you'd better believe 100% of their control systems ran on Windows.

But I suppose I can agree with you that it would be very hard to operate one of these without a computer?

I hate that shit. With my crappy iron it takes forever to put the solder in place and make sure the wires don't touch each other. I keep putting off repairing the cables on two sets of headphones just because I don't wanna do the soldering, and that's while I need one of them for decent sound and no lag with the DAW. Worse even, I will probably soon need to make another adapter from a 4-pin plug to two jacks, and that's quite a little cramped nest.

right, but wouldn't that be longevity over quality? I guess you could argue they are one in the same, but the article is about the audio quality of higher end cables being negligible compared to the basic amazon ones. and while you are absolutely correct about gold resisting corrosion, copper is a better conductor than gold, so the joke still stands.

(also fuck amazon)

What cables do you use for listening underwater? That's where I'm getting the most corrosion.

This is the same tired thing that's been going on since I can ever remember. First establish audiophiles as some deranged group of people that are willing to spend the insane amount of money on ridiculous science and then point and laugh.

Real audiophiles don't give two flying fucks about their cables, for the most part, outside of fundamentals being solid, good shielding, etc.

This is just the electronics version of the same shit you see across every market. $2,000 steaks covered in gold foil - but we're not castigating steak lovers because a steak lover would not buy such a thing.

The world is filled with people who have so much money it's embarrassing, and it's hard for the average chucklehead to understand that.

It kind of pisses me off that they didn't compare against lamp wire tied to rounded nails. They had the gear.

Yeah! Why design a product that caters to your target demographic instead of designing it for people that won't use it?

I just don't use corroded cables. Seems to work.

There's a difference between "audiophiles" that just want nice things and "Audiophiles" that believe in deranged pseudoscience. Why they bought it matters,

Overpriced but well made equipment (that doesn't pretend to be anything else) is fine. It's stuff like this or cables like these people make fun of.

$4k is chump change. How about some $109,000, 3 meter long audio cables?

This is actually correct. Gold doesn't corrode. Have you ever used a corroded plug?

virgin FEP dielectric' doesn't help

I'm shocked, shocked I say!

Also, how did they verify it was actually "virgin"? /s

I see some of us don't bother mixing the kool aid and just snort the crystals off the kitchen counter.

most of the population doesn't even own a computer, much less the aptitude or will to build a DIY laser engraver

If truth in advertising is what you seek, I've got bad news for you.

Hahah yeah, the breaking in thing is also ridiculous.

It may (arguably) make some sense for speakers and headphones, since they actually have moving parts, but I've recently read a review for a portable digital audio player that the reviewer felt the need to "break in" before testing. ???

couldn't be me...

90% of it is making sure you have heavy enough gauge wires, a proper solder join, and (if you are feeling itchy) cable shielding.

You could buy STP 2-wire, 4-wire, or 8-wire and have plenty for darn near any project.

Audio cables. I’m a musician and audio engineer. Soldering two or three conductor wire to 1/4” phono jacks.

Based on my experience Linux and Mac OS are more or less on par with Windows in the maker community with Windows' popularity rather decreasing than increasing.

You should also consider the fact that Linux users are hugely overrepresented in such communities, because there is a large overlap between people who, as a hobby, want to make stuff in the physical world and people who want to make stuff in the digital world.

:-p I was going to type Amiga, but changed my mind in the last second. I think complaining this is Windows only on a hardware community isn't really necessary. Also, the hardware is open source so you can probably adapt it to work with any system on lots of hardware. That requires some work, but most open source projects do.

Are Lazer engravers any different than a CD burner that can move on 2 axis?