Yes, but you might like to ask if the sound quality is better with a green on or that it needs to be yellow. Not to mention the ripeness of the banana.
Joking aside, it is a clear indication that cables, if anything, play only a very minor role in sound quality. Perhaps one can only question the quality of the experiment and thus its significance. For example, it wasn’t clear to me exactly how the AB test was set up, especially how the switching between the different paths was done. But I may have overlooked it if it was mentioned.
lol /10 chars
I don’t think there was any switching done in real time, it sounds like he recorded the output of the four different setups and then used something like https://abxtests.com to host the captured audio / run the AB tests. Which seems like a sensible approach.
Today I had a dream where the mud vendor explained that the test setup was based on a fundamental misunderstanding, namely because this is audiophile mud and intended to be sold in wooden containers as speaker connectors because <some technobabble>.
For real.
And there was me agonizing about rewiring / smart-homing our 400 year old cottage with thick cob walls. Problem solved! ![]()
Forget those ultra expensive cables and get a bunch of Bananas…
That’s a fun article. Thanks for sharing.
Actually, there are wooden “ground boxes” on the market, costing up to tens of thousands of dollars, that are supposed to be connected to the negative terminal of speakers - or to whatever you want “grounded”. I guess they are filled with some kind of audiophile “mud”. I won’t provide links.
I read this article at the perfect moment. I had my Amazon cart full of the parts I’d need to set up Diretta. After reading this, I deleted all that stuff from my cart and added a banana. Since I have Amazon Prime, I should have the banana by Wednesday and I can try it out.
Yeah, I’ve seen various variations of those ![]()
I’ve been using mud. While out walking, I bag samples. Currently, soil from the Kent Weald is my favourite, although I keep returning to Exmoor.
I wonder what brand of banana sounds the best.
We have plenty of mud here. In fact, it’s basically mud season right now. Maybe I’ll our mud a try. I imagine Seattle mud has to be great for Hendrix and just about anything grunge.
I didn’t think to check the banana brand. I’ll look when it gets here. Just two more days!
I’m running my Diretta networking through a banana right now! Incredible soundstage, micro-details I’ve never heard before, and a persistent, gnawing hunger that makes me feel like I was an apish knuckle-walker before I built-out this kit. I’m planning to experiment with plantains and red bananas soon. I expect a warmer texture from fried plantains, especially, but think reds might inject a bit of sophistication into my reproduction chain.
While not, strictly speaking, a banana, I believe an under-ripe plantain is the dogs bollocks for SQ….![]()
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One thing to remember with bananas. They sound better after a bit of ripen-in’ time.
I’ve just upgraded from the same banana I’ve used for the last year. As the it ripened and then rotted the sound became much more relaxed. Could someone please confirm this and provide me with some measurements to justify these changes.
After reading these comments about bananas, I canceled my order. Amazon refunded the purchase price to my account, which is good because my wife keeps a close eye on my audio gear expenditures.
The more I though about it, the more I realized that my dog would almost certainly eat the banana. I’m also concerned about flies.
I may try mud. Mud is usually free and I don’t think my dog will eat it.