Listening to Storage

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm
 

I am creating a range of fine tone wood cases for USB drives which should allow fine control of the timbral shaping of music files played back from them.  Integrated within are micro-mesh faraday cages which help preserve the streaming bit pattern from being perturbed by external magnetic fields, cosmic rays and gravitational waves.

ston
 Integrated within are micro-mesh faraday cages......

I've been called much worse....but, I'm cage free now.

ston

Beagle
you will make a fortune on that!

I know, right!
 
They're also input-buffered by beeswax capacitors (they're the buzziest!)
 
http://www.hificollective.co.uk/components/jupiter_flats_100v.html
 
Optionally, I might use the Yellow Vintage Tone caps, as they provide "a more authentic tone to the time period" and "Many users have reported that the Jupiter Vintage Tone caps give them the sound they have been searching since they began playing."
 
Presumably the capacitors detect the period the music is belonging to and fine-tune the tone accordingly.  Quite astonishing.  Forget the solid-state vs valves debacle, it's all about the caps (and bees!)

slartabartfast
...it seems like they are saying that the digital audio stream delivered from different drives are different. That would seem to be possible, even plausible.

No.  It doesn't matter if the (for example) mp3 file is read from a USB drive, streamed wirelessly from a NAS box, encoded by a (very fast) human using morse code along telegraph wires, or even by data-transfer carrier pigeon.
 
You could even have a line of people shouting "zero" and "one" at each other (although buffering times would be in the order of months) as long as nobody said "one" when they should have said "zero".
 
Computers do not say one when they mean zero; any such transmission errors will be flagged by the frame/packet level CRC checks and retransmitted.  If you have binary identical files sitting on a multitude of different storage devices and transfer them to a computer (for decoding, playback etc.) then they will arrive binary-identical.
 
This thread is really about exposing techno-babble Snake-Oil BS for what it is.  If your capacitor is +/- 5% tolerance, then it doesn't provide you with warmer tones in an audio circuit just because it contains beeswax or has been made by hand-impregnating unbleached papyrus.  If you ask a computer to read an identical binary file from 500 different storage media, then you will end up with 500 identical files, not 500 different ones; the digital decoding of those files will be identical.
 
Don't even get me started on those 'audiophiles' who try to tell you that vinyl is a better media because it's analog...
 
The only exception to all this is of course my tone wood USB drive enclosures   Even non-musical files such as word documents or spreadsheets stored on them take on a more musical character.
 
This is perhaps the best example that I know of:
 
http://www.theregister.co...onkers_ethernet_cable/
 
Which is an article relating to this:
https://www.audiovisualon...j-e-ethernet-cable-12m
 
I honestly don't understand who they're trying to kid; there is no chance at all that the company are not aware that they are 100% lying.  Even a reasonably smart four year old will know that an ethernet cable is neither 'audio' nor 'directional'.
 
 

I only made it to 'Press play'.
 
Life's too short, frankly.

drewfx1
I'm hesitant to distinguish a level of stupidity here any worse than anything else. These very forums are full of people who believe equally ridiculous stuff simply because it sounds plausible to them and they don't have enough of a technical understanding to see why something is really quite ridiculous.

Like how some think there's a major sound improvement using super-expensive, nitrogen-free Monster cables in the indicated direction versus using a thick, copper wire?  (Blind tests proved these so-called audiophiles couldn't tell the difference.) 
 
(Note that I own a LOT of Monster cable, but I bought it at 20% of it's normal cost.  )