Reading reviews for headphones amplified make me feel like my brain is slowly liquified. What's the point of these tubes there? I can bet that the tubes aren't even soldered into anything and are there just for swag. The reviews are also as retarded as it can possibly come:

"I left the amp to warm up for 6 hours with my hardware white noise generator and it still produces suboptimal sound."

WHY ARE AUDIOPHILES SO GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED? Is this how computer people sound too to the uninitiated? What the ever living fuck?

@newt
There's educated audiophiles, and then there's placebo peddlers.

What you encountered is the latter.
The former will tell you that things like tubes are bs. Anything over CD quality is imperceptible. You don't need special cables to carry digital signals etc.

@alyx @newt
>You don't need special cables to carry digital signals
sure you do
sometimes it's gotta be optical to help silence an obnoxious ground loop between your PC and receiver, and you've gotta buy those stupid plastic optical fiber toslink cables instead of using NORMAL fiber that you already have plenty of.

@skylar @newt
I repeat: you don't need special cables to carry DIGITAL signals.

What does a crappy digital audio cable actually sound like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpJ0Wr58AHE

@alyx @newt if it's copper, it can carry ground loop noise
maybe my receiver is simply a piece of shit, but going with optical fixed it

@skylar @newt
Maybe your cable is broken, cause you'd need A LOT of noise to fuck up digital signal. And you either get sound or you don't. There's not much of an in-between where you get audible noise over your audio.