Yeah, but the comment you replied to was making a point that the conductor doesn’t really matter if there isn’t any noise present. What makes a good cable has much more to do with proper shielding, because electromagnetic interference is what will muck up your signal, not a lack of gold plated connectors
He’s talking about the electromagnetic shielding in a cable, not the contact-points. Usually a copper mesh sheath housed underneath the outer-most rubbery layer and runs around and along the entire length of the signal-carrying wires inside the cable. Works like a Faraday cage, helps prevent electromagnetic interference from large power sources, other unshielded cables running parallel, or anything else that can generate an electromagnetic field near the cable.
Very important to protect signal integrity, widely used even outside the audiophile world (although there are of course plenty of audiophile gimmicks related to shielding).
Basically, if you have a bunch of live unshielded cables bundled and zip-tied together along with your speaker wire, you’ll definitely hear it. Run the signal through an oscilloscope, and you’ll even see it
V-Sauce had an incredible video on this, outlining exactly how unfathomably colossal the number 52! actually is. If I remember correctly:
Stand at the equator and set a timer for 52! seconds, press start, then stand still and wait for 1 billion years. Then, take one single step forward, and wait another billion years.
Continue walking at this pace until you’ve made your way around the Earth and back to your original starting position, then remove one drop of water from the Pacific ocean, and set it aside.
Repeat this process until you’ve completely emptied the Pacific Ocean drop by drop, then set a single sheet of paper on the ground beside you. Refill the Pacific Ocean again (instantly), and do it all over again.
Continue this process, setting each sheet of paper on top of the last, until the stack of papers reaches the sun. Then tear it all down and do the whole thing over again, 999 more times.
At this point, the timer would be about a third of the way to 0 seconds.
The video continues with an alternative mind-boggling process to kill the rest of the time while you’re waiting for the timer to reach 0, which involves dealing yourself 5 cards from a well-shuffled deck once every billion years, and buying a lottery ticket for each royal flush you deal yourself. If that lottery ticket hits the jackpot, you’d (EDIT: throw a grain of sand into the grand canyon, repeating until it’s full - forgot this step) then remove 1 ounce of rock from Mount everest, and repeat all of this until Mount Everest is completely leveled.
After doing this 256 more times, then the other two-thirds of the timer will have elapsed, and it would finally reach 0.
That’s how long 52! seconds would be.
FIVE THOUSAND?!
Jesus nun-fucking Christ, what an absolute scam. I bought a 1070 for $220 in the first few months after release. Guess I’ll just have to hope it can run for another 10 years…
Came here to say Peep Show, what an absolute treasure
This is not true. I personally acquired citizenship of Lithuania for example, solely because my grandmother was born there and left during Soviet occupation (as many did). I speak no Lithuanian, have no other connection to the country, and have never even been there.
Want to save this thread for later, may as well name a couple as well
The Faceless - Planetary Duality. Technical death metal album that found an outstanding balance between technically-impressive musicianship, interesting compositional intricacacies, and raw primal brutality. Nothing scratches that itch like this album does for me. And if you’re into drums, Alex Rudinger’s drumming in Xenochrist is wholly and entirely inhuman. The dude is an octopus trapped in a man’s body. I’d recommend watching his Xenochrist drum playthrough video if you’re particularly interested
Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians. These two guys are absolute wizards of music production, and this album showcases their insane ability to bring out such colorful personalities from their meticulously crafted synth leads, through gradual and dramatic evolution… Which they usually do in a familiar psy-trance setting. But the “chill side” half of this album accomplishes this wonderfully in a unique, much more relaxed, low-tempo style that I’m genuinely struggling to find words to describe
Lv. 3 Pidgey used Gust
It’s super effective!
Fiat Panda has fainted!
OBS was the first I tried, but ran into some issues with certain audio channels via my DAC. I actually found a workaround while trying another option later on, but never tried it with OBS. Thanks for the reminder!
I’ve been using it in beta for the past 2-3 months or so on my windows pc, and it’s been excellent in terms of functionality and customization. Twice, I started up a game, and Steam immediately notified me that game capture ran into a problem and isn’t recording (resolved by just restarting the game). Other than that non-issue, it’s been perfect.
Anyway, was very happy to replace the nvidia spyware with something that works. I’d still feel better about a FOSS alternative for screen capture though. Anyone have a suggestion? The handful I’ve tried weren’t working out.
Simply put, both protect against certain types of interference in different ways, and each is effective in ways that the other is not.
Mesh shielding is going to help prevent electrical interference from being introduced via the wire itself from an external source. Like other cables carrying signal and running very near/parallel, or electromagnetic fields generated from other devices, certain electrical components, household appliances, etc.
The ferrite beads protect against radio-frequency interference (RFI) via induction, acting like low-pass filters which attenuate specific bandwidths of very high frequency signals. Essentially, they intercept and absorb high-frequency electrical noise, and convert that energy into a small amount of heat instead of letting it pass through further down the signal path. This kind of interference can be from an external source, or generated internally from the various electronics/components in the signal path (which mesh shielding would do nothing to protect against). They also help dissipate any RFI that the mesh shielding itself may be carrying, so you often see both ferrite beads and mesh/foil shielding, like on laptop chargers or USB cables for example.