Audiophile Cable Snake Oil

Many of these products purport themselves to function in some highly technical realm of scientific explanation.

Audiophile cable snake oil.

By gene dellasala. The video is in cantonese introducing this quantum active cable and the photo is a capture screen from the video showing t. Telos is a taiwan manufacturer and has a variety products claiming to use quantum technology. Teti 16 comments after a very long time i introduce new article in category bullshit of the week.

Their goal is to offer some miraculous improvement to an audio system for an exceedingly low cost. I am not a technical guy and i doubt whether they are just gimmick or snake oil. Snake oil of the year award. Science or snake oil by nelson pass.

This takes all of the air out of the proverbial lungs of the audiophile cable manufacturer since they almost never provide any objective peer reviewed proofs to their claims hence why audioholics has been on a 20 year quest to debunk the nonsense in audio with cables. Thus the audiophile whose amplifiers sit close to his speakers need be less concerned than he whose cables are 40 feet long. Subtle differences between cable types become more dramatic with increasing length and shrink toward zero as the cable gets shorter. Many of these products exist on the fringe of believability and before long almost inevitably the ubiquitous term snake oil is applied.

These vendors often prey upon the suggestible audiophile giving them reasons why these products must be utilized in their precious systems in order to achieve the best performance possible to reach the true path of audio nirvana. To this end some. If a vendor is selling you on any of these.