Dec 30, 2024 15:00:00

It turns out it's possible to connect audio cables together using carrots

Audio hobbies are often described as a 'swamp', and some people who pursue them are particular not only about players and speakers, but also about cables and power supplies, and they make their own amplifiers and cables while considering various materials,

building their own utility poles at home , and so on. A post on the online bulletin board site Reddit that said 'carrots are good for connecting audio cables' became a hot topic, and YouTuber Julian Klose , who deals with audio-related topics, has been investigating it.

Audiophile Carrots are a thing now.. Listen to it for yourself! - YouTube


It all started with a post on Reddit, and looking at the photo, it looks like an audio cable has been plugged directly into a plain carrot, with no processing whatsoever.

So Klose bought a regular carrot. Of course, the 'A-grade Audiophile Carrot' was a joke.

So, take out the carrot and plug in the male plug of the audio cable. In the movie, music is actually compared between 'connecting the audio cable as usual' and 'inserting the cable into the carrot', but the deterioration in sound quality is almost not felt, and the difference is not noticeable.

When the cable was inserted into the carrot, the recording level dropped by about 4 dB compared to normal, but Klose acknowledged that there was almost no difference in sound quality, except that the high frequencies became slightly louder.

In addition, if you move the cable insertion position and increase the distance between the male plugs, the resistance between them will increase, which will cause a slight decrease in the recording level.

Below is a spectrum analyzer measurement of

the noise floor of the setup that Klose normally uses for testing. The vertical axis is decibels (dBV) and the horizontal axis is frequency (Hz).

And here's the noise floor for the carrot setup: Noise has increased slightly, but even the most prominent noise around 50 Hz is at -100 dBV, so it's barely audible, says Klose.

The frequency response tends to increase as the frequency increases.

The results of

the loopback test in the setup environment are as follows.

And the results of the setup connected to Carrot look like this. There is some interference, but basically there is almost no difference from the setup environment. Klose commented, 'I never thought that Carrot would be so suitable for audio connections. This is a very unexpected result.'

Klose also said, 'Next I'd like to connect an audio cable to the pickle.'

The problem with the carrot connection is that the environment is not permanent. When I connected an audio cable to the carrot and left it for a week, the carrot dried up.