Friday, February 13, 2015
To the audiophile, this $10,000 Ethernet cable apparently makes sense
Ars Technica: Pity the audiophile. The term should be an aural counterpart to "cinephile"—as that word means a person who greatly appreciates movies, so "audiophile" should refer to a person who pursues a pure music listening experience. "Audiophile" should properly refer to someone who appreciates listening to music as it was recorded and who isn’t afraid of paying extra for high-quality equipment to chase after a "live" sound.
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The author’s stance on audiophiles is hilarious, and I really like his term “audiophool”. It’s funny that people are actually believing and buying this kind of cable, and props to the company that is getting consumers to drop this much money on a glorified cat5 cable. I mean, this cable costs more than Bang and Olufsen speakers do, which is just ridiculous. At least when you buy Bang and Olufsen you see what you’re getting and you can actually hear that it’s incredibly high quality (although they are a company who also prey on audiophiles with too much money). At least they have a really high quality of finish and a cool design aesthetic. The funniest thing about this stuff though, to me anyways, is that audiophiles are concerned with reproducing the sound that was recorded. If that’s the case, it could be argued that they’d be better off with a pair of really high quality studio monitors that were placed on their desk in the perfect position, not some really classy looking speakers that make a design statement louder than the audio that plays through them. I just think that this stuff is kinda dumb, but unfortunately there is a market for it. I wonder how pissed off someone is going to be when the little plastic clip on the end of their new Ethernet cable breaks and it no longer stays in their computer.
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