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To: BobL

“I use coax.”

In the early days of home theater it became common to get both a digital coax input as well as a fiber optic input on home theater receivers. The coax cables were heavier and thicker than the fiber optic cables. There was a dedicated group of HT hobbyists who insisted that the coax cables resulted in better bass.

Trying to explain that both cables were passing digital packets fell on deaf ears. The coax cables were thick, they were heavy, and they had copper cores, of course the bass frequencies were better with coax!


32 posted on 04/03/2023 7:34:02 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Roadrunner383
Trying to explain that both cables were passing digital packets fell on deaf ears. The coax cables were thick, they were heavy, and they had copper cores, of course the bass frequencies were better with coax!

LOL!

39 posted on 04/03/2023 8:22:17 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Roadrunner383

Coax is better for catfish.


43 posted on 04/03/2023 10:58:27 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Roadrunner383
Trying to explain that both cables were passing digital packets fell on deaf ears. The coax cables were thick, they were heavy, and they had copper cores, of course the bass frequencies were better with coax!

I understand. I was invited to photograph a wedding when digital cameras were new. I went there with a 10x zoom camera smaller than a postcard and a laptop—about $30K worth of hardware and software that all fit in a small backpack. However, the stepmother of the groom had brought a big black SLR camera with a big black case and several lenses in cases hung around her neck, and bulled her way uninvited in front of me at every shot or pose I arranged with the extended family or guests. The guests thought it was a joke that I was the photographer being paid by the aunt of the bride, and just turned away and looked at her lens. Her camera looked so professional! And its shutter made that official rasp-click! But when her pix were developed, the focus and detail simply could not compare. Nor could she zoom, crop, color-correct or retouch as I was able to in digital. Oh, well.

45 posted on 04/03/2023 2:04:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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