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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, electrically all of those things will just attenuate amplitude, not really effect signal oscillations, which is actually what sound is ...

All they're doing is effectively adding a small resistance to the signal which will just lower the volume in effect. Adding any amplifier will fix that

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

This is quite surprising, especially as we often don’t think of bananas, or even wet mud, as great conductors. However, the tester surmised that introducing the materials into the circuit is just like adding a resistor in series, and they’re unlikely to distort the audio too much, except by lowering the signal level.

I see you also read the article

[–] baines@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

it could distort the signal or add noise