Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarethepreciousboar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoEverything marketed audiophiles, not only gold plated cables, but also anything that uses vacuum tubes because “they sound better”
minus-squaresour@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoI was buying a toslink cable recently and I shit you not, there was a gold plated optical cable…
minus-squareTehdastehdas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months ago Fucking Toslink: one round optical fiber in the middle, but it plugs in in only one position out of four, and you can’t feel which way the female connector is. EU should fine the assholes responsible.
Everything marketed audiophiles, not only gold plated cables, but also anything that uses vacuum tubes because “they sound better”
I was buying a toslink cable recently and I shit you not, there was a gold plated optical cable…
Fucking Toslink: one round optical fiber in the middle, but it plugs in in only one position out of four, and you can’t feel which way the female connector is. EU should fine the assholes responsible.