Arthur Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Anyone interested in buying one to see if the claims are true? Audiophiles have long claimed that expensive cables constructed from oxygen-free copper, gold or even more esoteric materials can have a serious impact on sound quality - but now a Korean company is making the same claims for SATA data cables. Korean company WireDream has announced the release of its WD-SATA-INDRA cables, now available for sale in Japan via local company Zionote. The key feature of the WireDream cables is its use of wires made from 97 per cent sterling silver and 3 per cent pure gold. WireDream goes beyond mere materials, however: the cables are constructed using a high-temperature treatment for several hours followed by low-temperature processing for a hundred hours, before being 'aged' so the cables are 'broken in' by the time they are shipped. The result: 100 per cent ability to make some truly questionable claims. The SATA cables are designed, as all SATA cables are, to sit between a storage device and the motherboard of a PC in order to transfer a digital signal. This signal, containing the zeros and ones which make up the stored data, either gets to its destination intact or it doesn't. WireDream claims, however, that use of its SATA cables results in a detectable improvement to audio quality. We'll repeat that again: switching SATA cables to WireDream's silver-and-gold model is claimed to boost audio quality. According to importer Zionote: 'While every effort has been made with various field tests, we decided to sell [the cables] because the effect of improving the sound quality was observed. Sound quality will become like smooth analogue sound, while a sense of stage depth is widened. The sound of vocals and stringed instruments in particular should be easy to understand.' Neither WireDream nor Zionote are willing to provide an indication of how the cable affects the quality of digital audio files transferred between the storage device and the host PC. The companies are also silent on whether the cable works for other file types: are images given a deeper colour gamut, games more weapons or databases more detail? Zionote has confirmed it will be selling the cables for ¥24,800 (around £190 excluding taxes) in 40cm length, with 50cm and 60cm versions made to order. If you're interested, OlioSpec has the cables available for mail order - and we have a bridge in Brooklyn in which you may be interested... (Source) http://i.imgur.com/nbXXp.jpg
Gatt Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 I think @Dos_Box should take a shuftie in the EduGeek coffers **read get out his credit card** and get one for testing....
Michael Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Hmm I can't see how this can be better than optical cable.
pcstru Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Some people have more money than sense. In this case the ratio would seem ... infinite.
Michael Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 The data transfer is irrelevant really. It's the bit rate of the track, the processing of the sound card, output via optical cable, then into an amplifier and out some quality speakers.
localzuk Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Lol. Anyone who buys these deserves a slap round the head. SATA is a standard for a reason - all the parts within it are 'standard'... What a load of balls.
GrumbleDook Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 The data transfer is irrelevant really. It's the bit rate of the track, the processing of the sound card, output via optical cable, then into an amplifier and out some quality speakers. No, no, no, no, no ... it is all about the purity of the metals. All the silver and gold means that miniature angels are attracted to live in the cable and it sounds so much better because there is a celestial choir backing whatever you are listening too. I am sure that The Dead & Buried will sound even more amazing when listened on a computer with this cable connecting to the drive ... the sound of a seraphim symphony helping to mangle that metal makes my ears melt.
Dos_Box Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 I think @Dos_Box should take a shuftie in the EduGeek coffers **read get out his credit card** and get one for testing.... In one word. No.
jinnantonnixx Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Nice one. Time to re-post this gem: Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables? - The Consumerist In summary: Seven different songs were played, each time heard with the speaker hooked up to Monster Cables, and the other time, hooked up to coat hanger wire. Nobody could determine which was the Monster Cable and which was the coat hanger. The kicker? None of the subjects even knew that coat hangers were going to be used.
PotNoodleTech Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 It's natural selection at it's finest. I firmly support companies like this leeching money of rich idiots in order to boost our fragile economy. The more complete nut jobs that waste their riches on cables like this the better!
Arcath Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 In one word. No. But Edugeek would glow with a certain shine that you can only get by having the files accessed over these sata cables
jinnantonnixx Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 But Edugeek would glow with a certain shine that you can only get by having the files accessed over these sata cables You might be right. The binary 'ones' would be oneier, the 'naughts' would be naughtier. As a result, the data would be richer - it stands to reason. Can you afford not to?
sonofsanta Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 At first I thought this would be another "lol look at stupid ecommerce site algorithm being thick lolololol" but by the gods, that's even stupider. I mean, it's bad enough when they talk about HDMI cables (excellent refutation of that particular myth here) but claiming that your digital hard drive cable will improve the digital transfer of you digital audio files to make it sound better is... well, astonishingly stupid. Maybe we should start tying crystals to our USB leads as well?
accura2000 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 In the word of Mrs Brown (From Mrs Browns Boys) - "That's Nice"
CHR1S Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 You might be right. The 'naughts' would be naughtier. As a result, We would all have to hide our surfing habits FIFY More naughtier data.. hmmmmmm
Michael Posted April 2, 2012 Posted April 2, 2012 No, no, no, no, no ... it is all about the purity of the metals. All the silver and gold means that miniature angels are attracted to live in the cable and it sounds so much better because there is a celestial choir backing whatever you are listening too. I am sure that The Dead & Buried will sound even more amazing when listened on a computer with this cable connecting to the drive ... the sound of a seraphim symphony helping to mangle that metal makes my ears melt. That's where I've been going wrong all these years. I should of placed an order with them on April 1st for a quantity of 10,000.
sonofsanta Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) So I'm sure you all immediately rushed out and bought those SATA cables for your internal drives a couple of years ago. But I bet that, since then, you've shifted all your media from internal storage out to a NAS, and never even thought about the destruction of audio quality wrought by your sub-par ethernet cables. Even if you hooked your NAS up with those super fancy pants SATA cables, what good does that do you with only cheap copper Cat5E 'twixt you and your music? But fret no longer! The AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Cat7 Ethernet cable at only $10,000 for 12m will restore your music to all its former glory! Cables of this quality are manufactured to be directional, and have arrows on each plug indicating the direction your music should flow. Concerned about multiple nonlinear time-delays? Don't be! With AudioQuest's Dielectric-Bias System insulation, a strong, stable electrostatic field saturates and polarizes the molecules of the insulation, ensuring your very time-sensitive multi-octave audio is delivered as accurately as possible. Don't forget you'll need two - one from your NAS to your switch, and one from your switch to your player. Surely $20,000 is no money at all though, for the peace of mind that comes from knowing you're hearing every last bit of your audio at the very finest quality - just as the exhuasted, over-worked, under-appreciated producer who was sick of dealing with that recording artist's nonsense intended it to sound! (Source: To the audiophile, this $10,000 Ethernet cable apparently makes sense | Ars Technica) Edited February 11, 2015 by sonofsanta
Arthur Posted February 19, 2015 Author Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) Sony will sell a “premium sound” microSDXC card to audiophiles in Japan « Ars Technica The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony will be bringing what is labeled as a "premium sound" microSDXC card to market in Japan next month. In spite of the fact that these cards use packetized digital signaling and "noise" below a certain threshold is immaterial to the proper reading of data from media, and despite the fact that even Sony isn’t sure about the viability of a "premium sound" microSDXC card, the company does think that there are people out there who will want it. "We aren’t that sure about the product’s potential demand," the Journal quotes a Sony spokesperson as saying, "but we thought some among people who are committed to great sound quality would want it." That statement can be unpacked in a number of different ways, including a few that are particularly unflattering—like, "We figured we could make this and sell it for a ludicrously high margin and there would be people out there who would buy it because it says 'premium sound' on it, regardless of its actual efficacy." Speaking of margins, the 64GB "premium sound" SR-64HXA MicroSDXC card is expected to retail in Japan for about $160—a price that the Journal characterizes as being about five times the price of other Class 10 microSDXC cards (a quick check on Amazon shows that cards with similar sizes and speed ratings cost a bit over $20 at the low end). It’s not obvious what effect the SR-64HXA will have on music; Sony says only that the card will produce "less electrical noise when reading data," a statement that contains no quantitative technical details. However, a total lack of details isn’t something that stops a certain class of audio-obsessed consumer from spending crazy sums of money on products that do basically nothing. http://a.pomf.se/fgfaqm.jpg Edited February 19, 2015 by Arthur
ICTDirect_Dave Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Maybe we should start tying crystals to our USB leads as well? Audio Tweaks, Damping, Vibration Isolation, Room Acoustics, Crystals is a brilliant website! I just lost twenty five minutes browsing and ended up longing for some dark matter coating for my CDs!
PotNoodleTech Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 I'm a hifi lover, I love listening to music. My hifi is quite good. I'm on all the hifi forums. I don't class/describe myself as an audiophile though as I don't want to be tarred with the crystal demagnetizer bonkers nutter lala land brush
flyinghaggis Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Hmm I can't see how this can be better than optical cable. It's definitely not on a par with a "Gold-Plated" Optical Cable Buy SANDSTROM AV Gold Series S2OPT314X Digital Optical Cable - 2 m | Free Delivery | Currys
pcstru Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 I'm a hifi lover, I love listening to music. My hifi is quite good. I'm on all the hifi forums. I don't class/describe myself as an audiophile though as I don't want to be tarred with the crystal demagnetizer bonkers nutter lala land brush But sadly you gave it away when you said "hifi lover" rather than "music lover" ;-)!
PotNoodleTech Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 I'm a hifi lover, I love listening to music. *ahem* I am a music lover, I also love the hifi kit required to play music
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