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[Article] 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)

submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/interestingshare@lemmy.zip

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Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

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[–] Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

How long until we have muddy banana filled speakers?

[–] thenewred@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Fun experiment but not terribly surprising once you think about it. A signal is a signal, not matter what medium it passes through. If it's not distorted and no additional noise is introduced, it should be indistinguishable.

The bigger impact would be from anything that interprets the signal, like and processing/crossover/speaker output.

[–] katinka@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

( Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260216200328/https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator )

I work with audio and while I didn't mean it to, my hearing has become pretty keen. Would be interesting to run the experiment.

[–] lycalopex@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

good luck and please post the results here on lemmy