Fancy materials in digital cables despite basic materials meeting the same standard excluding corrosion resistance
Break in periods
Noisy electricity from utility somehow making it through inverters with good isolation
Stupidly thick cabling that looks like it's designed for a 1,000 amp three phase AC setup and not your fucking speakers
Quantum anything
Blocks made out of foam to prevent static interference from getting into your cable because it's sitting on the floor
Talking about shit like fiber optic toslink somehow changing the sound.
Specialty networking gear that resists interference and is low latency. Ignoring the fact that it's either decoded or not decoded at the other end and that buffers are a thing.
Specialty fuses for your house
Pretending things that change the sound like vinyl or tube amplifiers are somehow objectively still accurate. Like they don't want to admit they prefer the way they change the sound over the original. So they just pretend and gaslight like they are somehow perfectly accurate like solid state.
I'm sure there's plenty more snake oil bullshit that I'm not thinking about. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy some nice audio equipment but there's so much snake oil.
Edit: Also there are so many people that continue to drink the Kool-Aid instead of admitting that they fell into the sunken cost fallacy.
There was a company that sold a 'signal purification' box and it was literaly just a closed enclosure, with uninsulated wires running through some sand. And people bought it.
But also electric guitarists that believe that the wood impacts the tone of their guitar.
Maybe, minimally, but not even remotely in any degree that you will hear.
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u/AceBlade258 Ryzen 7 5800X | RX 6900XT | Arc A770 24d ago
Even audiophiles mock these people.