It's more difficult than you might think to get a good solder connection on mud or a potato. 😉
What if you presolder the wire end and just shove it into the potato?
Is there an optimum ratio of potato to soldered wire diameters?
Is there an optimum ratio of potato to soldered wire diameters?
You forgot God´s most important creation: human flesh (although by quoting mud at least you mentioned its raw material) 😉 :
https://youtu.be/t8euoLavyw0?t=1h4m45s
https://youtu.be/t8euoLavyw0?t=1h4m45s
Oh dear! Would that be when your mains voltage went up
Make sure they are King Edwards. Very regal sounding I believe, but if you don't like them then you can always mash them for a cottage pie.
I find it helps to tin the potato first. I know from experience that tin foil around the potato works well in my oven.
Not at all! It was covered in detail earlier in the thread, with wiring diagrams even. 🙂
I think there should be a dedicated section for cable/connector discussions with this thread at the top as a sticky. Non believers can then avoid it and all the endless arguments it contains.
Absolutely 🙂 Never let it be said that diyAudio is not at the cutting edge. We got there first.
100% organic audio, yes.
Oh I have already found a way. Rain or moisture detector. Or unauthorized data transmission where metal wires are not available / not allowed. Maybe develop an antenna out of it too?
...I think I'm starting to understand why our government suppresses the availability of education.
Oh I have already found a way. Rain or moisture detector. Or unauthorized data transmission where metal wires are not available / not allowed. Maybe develop an antenna out of it too?
...I think I'm starting to understand why our government suppresses the availability of education.
The test was a lot of fun. Not too many people were willing to take the test or post the results.
Here is a summary of the first round:
Review:
A few did a pretty good job, but no one said it was glaringly obvious. Molly is usually good at these tests.
Considering the mediums used and all the digital fixing I had to do to some of the files, the small differences were surprising.
I will soon reboot this test with a cleaner signal flow that doesn't introduce so much noise. The noise was a big give away in the second round. Coffee, Coke and wine do not make good cables. Mud and vegetables, not too bad.
Here is a summary of the first round:
Review:
A few did a pretty good job, but no one said it was glaringly obvious. Molly is usually good at these tests.
Considering the mediums used and all the digital fixing I had to do to some of the files, the small differences were surprising.
I will soon reboot this test with a cleaner signal flow that doesn't introduce so much noise. The noise was a big give away in the second round. Coffee, Coke and wine do not make good cables. Mud and vegetables, not too bad.
It is a pity that almost everyone who tried has such a poor system (or poor ears) that they could not hear much difference. 😎
Yes. And the even bigger disappointment is that with over 33,000 thread views so few actually took the test and posted results.
Perhaps the test proves that people greatly prefer to talk about cable differences rather than work to find them.
Perhaps the test proves that people greatly prefer to talk about cable differences rather than work to find them.
Here is a test with a banana that was just ripe. Still yellow, and a very faint hint of green on the top and bottom. The temperature of the fruit was about 17° and the room temperature was 21°.
The 2 probes consisted of a normal el cheapo interconnect with the wire of the left channel cut and stripped. Both ends were poked into the banana at a distance of +/- 7 cm.
The sound card is a Xonar U7 MKII and the other end was connected to the in and outs of a cassette deck, set to source. Both devices had been turned on for more than 20 minutes to avoid any possible error due to warming up.
With the NAK T-100 software I came to the following results:
The red line is the right solid channel and the green line the left 'banana channel'. The first plot is a frequency sweep and the other is pink noise.
The frequency sweep is not a nice straight line but has either a dip towards the lower frequencies or a boost towards the higher frequencies.
This, I'm not able to determine.
The difference is roughly 1.3dB across the frequency range. There is a loss of about 2-3 db in amplitude.
The banana was labeled BIO, maybe we will get different measurements with non-BIO bananas.
Andy Warhol would have known for sure.
The 2 probes consisted of a normal el cheapo interconnect with the wire of the left channel cut and stripped. Both ends were poked into the banana at a distance of +/- 7 cm.
The sound card is a Xonar U7 MKII and the other end was connected to the in and outs of a cassette deck, set to source. Both devices had been turned on for more than 20 minutes to avoid any possible error due to warming up.
With the NAK T-100 software I came to the following results:
The red line is the right solid channel and the green line the left 'banana channel'. The first plot is a frequency sweep and the other is pink noise.
The frequency sweep is not a nice straight line but has either a dip towards the lower frequencies or a boost towards the higher frequencies.
This, I'm not able to determine.
The difference is roughly 1.3dB across the frequency range. There is a loss of about 2-3 db in amplitude.
The banana was labeled BIO, maybe we will get different measurements with non-BIO bananas.
Andy Warhol would have known for sure.
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