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There are so many snake oil hifi cable/accessory companies that at least somebody must be buying this crap:

http://wathifi.tumblr.com/ (which is where I found the cable in question)

I guess they only need to sell one to make a huge return

There are great numbers of people out there with more money than sense. That ratio can reach staggering heights.

Possibly the most extreme example I've come across of flawed digital audio logic was an article I was linked to recently co-written by one of MacWorld's technical editors describing in detail the differences in sound quality between various hard drives and SSDs [1]. The audiophile world can provide a laugh now and then.

[1] http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t...

...what? How is this not satire? How do people have the gall to make claims like these, while explicitly stating that their hypotheses are based only on "anecdotal murmurings and some limited first-hand experience?"

I sometimes wonder if this is just an elaborate money laundering scheme.