Things that can go wrong, Part 14376

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Rundmaus

Rundmaus

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#1
Hey there,

good idea to check multicore wire from the cable dump before carefully twisting pairs from the wires inside.

Otherwise...

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I need a beer. 😱

Andreas

EDIT: For those who can't see it clearly in the picture, the black one is an optical fibre. Dammit.
 
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It was annoying for about a second when I discovered my mistake - then I couldn't keep myself from laughing... sh*t happens 😉

The wires came from a piece of quite thick 10-wire control cable - I was too lazy to check the cable type from the printing. Otherwise I would have discovered early that it was configured as 9x1mm² and one optical fibre...
 
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Looks like you just invented twisted shield optical fiber (TSOF).

Now for some fun in 6 easy steps:
  1. Hook it up like regular optical fiber between two audio components.
  2. Connect one end only of the multicore to ground/chassis of whichever component is at that end.
  3. Notice how much better it sounds than regular optical fiber (or at least pretend to).
  4. Start a new thread announcing a breakthrough in digital audio sound quality.
  5. Insist it makes a huge difference which end is grounded (the multicore has to be grounded at the source component, not the destination).
  6. Sit back and enjoy while others rush out and build their own TSOF interconnects and start enthusiastically discussing the obvious audible improvements.
P.S. Any bets how long it takes before the arguments start about solid silver vs stranded copper, preferred twist direction etc?
😀
 
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