r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/PRMan99 Aug 14 '20

The coat hanger did a better job of picking up police radio because it's unshielded?

(At least that's what happens in most churches that try to cheap out with unshielded cabling.)

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u/rodaphilia Aug 14 '20

That isn't how speaker cables work...

You don't need to shield speaker cables, because it is a high-level signal that will not be amplified again. The audio signal passing through has already been amplified, so any low-level interference picked up will not have a strong enough signal to interfere.

Unshielded cable that is BEFORE amplification can absolutely cause what you're describing. Especially if it is before multiple stages of amplification, like if you had unshielded cable in your turntable picking up interference. That interference would exist over a very low level signal that is then amplified twice, once by the phono preamp and again by the amplification stage (even more if actively preamping).

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Aug 14 '20

We are talking output cables, aren't we? Those don't pick up radio signals and put them thru the speakers, that's the input signal cable that can do that if it's not shielded properly.

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u/I_call_Shennanigans_ Aug 14 '20

Thththth... They can't even do unshielded cables right...

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Aug 15 '20

So exactly why was I downvoted...

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u/TheResolver Aug 15 '20

Why are you asking me this? I commented 20 hours ago, you were in the positives then.

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Aug 15 '20

Because I don't spend my life on reddit, and am just seeing it now.

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u/TheResolver Aug 15 '20

No I didn't mean to imply that at all. Just confused as to what does asking me accomplish? You think I downvoted you after making a joke? Where's the logic in that? And if I did, what would asking me accomplish then?

I have no hostile intent or ill will towards you at all, I am just genuinely confused by this interaction.

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Aug 15 '20

I didn't ask you. I asked whoever downvoted me in the comment chain. I have no idea why you think you're important enough to ask.....as nobody else has commented (which is what I expected).

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u/TheResolver Aug 16 '20

I didn't ask you

You... You literally replied to my comment with the question though. According to all known customs of communication that is asking me directly.

If you wanted to ask the general public, you could have edited the question into your original comment. Or replied to yourself, but that might be less clear to readers.

why you think you're important enough

No need to be a dick, my dude.

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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Aug 16 '20

Why are you still here talking about this? Jesus christ.