Blue Jeans Cable goes High-End

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10 hours ago, semente said:

Can you think of anything with a higher added value than high-end cables?

Saffron?

Saffron-filled audiophile fuses.

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2 hours ago, firedog said:

And this one product they are marketing makes them a joke?

Yes. Moreover, it shows that they are no longer trustworthy. When a company sells even one product with a hint of serpentine grease, it means anything they say must be carefully scrutinised. Reputations are hard to build and easily squandered.

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8 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

I’m not sure how this is new information. If heat didn’t radiate out through a vacuum then Apollo 13 would not have been cold soaked after turning off the heater, heck they wouldn’t even need one. Another question is how did they keep the astronauts from getting cooked by the sun or freezing when not in sunlight?

 

so many questions...

 

I understand space isn’t a perfect vacuum but it’s sure as hell empty enough that normal modes of heat radiation won’t work. 
 

maybe I should have paid more attention in Physics classes. 

This is a different effect entirely. Spacecraft have, obviously, always relied on infrared radiation to lose excess heat. The article talks about the discovery of heat transfer between two objects separated by a vacuum exceeding the amount of IR radiation. This effect works only on the nanometre scale, so it has no relevance for spacecraft.

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3 minutes ago, sandyk said:

That's BS. Every company has a right to sell premium products , and just because they have 1 line from Belden that costs a lot more for them to buy too, does NOT mean they are no longer trustworthy.

Sure, they have the right to sell what they want, just as I have the right to judge them however I want for so doing.

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3 hours ago, lucretius said:

Hmmm ... BJC says this on their website:

 

"We can sell you some very expensive cable, if you want it. We have some coaxes that could endure baking in the oven, like Belden 89259 or 89248, and these cost a lot of money. If your application requires that, then these are the best to use because they won't melt and burn up; but if you aren't asking about special applications and the like, our standard recommendations -- which often are also our lowest-priced -- are truly the best product we know of for the application, so don't let the presence of a costlier alternative on our site make you worry that you're not buying the best cable for your needs."

How can they say this while at the same time selling the Iconoclast cables which are just expensive, not actually better for any audio application? Hold on, I think there's a word for this ... hypo-something ... hypoxia, no that's not it (though one wonders if that wasn't involved too) ... hypocrisy. Yes, it's called hypocrisy.