The SD card they have at the top DOES actually offer real benefits over other SD cards though... but probably not to typical consumers.
This has been doing the rounds on reddit, and if anyone's stupid or gullible in any way it's the hoards of people, including the journalists who are lining up to scoff at it, who have assumed that the product claims to improve sound quality by "improving" the quality of the data being transferred (which WOULD be a ridiculous claim). This isn't the case though.
Sony's claim is that this shielded SD card produces less electrical interference that can cause ground loop noise problems.
Have you ever used a computer that, when every time you move your mouse, you can hear a faint buzzing sound through the speakers? Or a faint buzz every time your hard drive reads or writes something? That's ground loop noise and it's obviously not wanted in professional audio environments because, aside from having an annoying buzzing sound, if you happen to be recording on a system that has this issue the buzzing will be present in the recording too.
Just sayin...
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Sat 21 Feb 2015, 12:51,
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