Great video, nice to see the labs testing stuff 🙂

A bit funny the choice of sponsor as they are kinda snake oil just like the audio filtering products. – source I bought one of their chairs like an idiot

If anything, these could do more for RAM overclocking than audio quality

Anyways IMO power filters are mostly useless when the real problem with most pc audio is EMI, so shielding the sound card would go a long way. So says a lot about a company making "filters" when they don't even shield their products.

Although space is scarce in a modern pc giving that GPU's are taking up all the space near the extension slots and PCI Express slots are getting scarcer because of that, there is only one real solution to having better audio in your system when you don't want to rely on the motherboard sound chip. And that is the solution that worked for years before: the good old Soundblaster card. They still exist, but while everybody (and I too) are lusting for ever bigger GPU's and CPU's they haven't had that much of an evolution, let alone revolution. That's why mostly they are ignored now. But I wouldn't mind if one would be taken into account into a test in the near future.

Linus nothing grows in drain cleaner another chemical I'm testing is CLR

In audio engineering as you mentioned at the beginning the goal is to capture audio with the least amount of interference as possible. That audio has to then be converted from an analogue signal into a digital signal to be processed on a computer. These products are marketed as helping with the latter half of the processing chain when in reality all they do is interfere with the former half. The input itself as apposed to the processing. Adding cheap capacitors to your signal loop that aren't responsible for the processing at all but rather the clean input signal will always lead to severe sound degradation. Not shocked at all that if you were to input a clean SIN wave through a bunch of unnecessary physical hardware would mess it up before and during its processing into a digital waveform. Less is always more in Audio.

Honestly, on board sound is fine these days and even a usb sound card is smart enough to split a 5.1 into individual left and right, front and back channels.

What’s the matter with you guys? The PCI sata is obviously for a Rasberry Pi 4. It comes with extra parts on the board that’s why they aren’t all powered up.. wow I thought you were techs 😅

Why not just buy a high end motherboard, instead of installing all those junk.

Please do a noise floor test of expensive motherboards from well known brands who claim to have high quality audio vs a low budget mobo + external dac amp

I particularly liked the script and pacing of this video! Thanks for the interesting look into these scams.