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I generally find audiophiles to be a pretentious bunch, so this sounds about right.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

once your cable is shielded (and preferably coaxial, but for audio those get into fantasy territory very quickly) and it fits power of source, there isn’t anything you can do further, your power sources will fuck up much more than cable being 1% better.

But very cheapish non shielded 3,5mm cables do funny stuff on speakers, you can hear them hum louder when you loop cables or press your fingers on them, so they do be catching 50/60hz from all of the wiring