Management revealed that someone in the store tested positive for covid. Refused to say who, only saying that the people who work in close proximity of that person were informed of the possible risk and that they should watch themselves for symptoms. It's nobody who works anywhere near me, since I work in the back(Production) and this person works in the front(Operations). They also said that there's very little chance of the store being shut down, since we're considered "low risk" due to our claims following of extensive safety measure. Like the masks, that so many people wear below the nose, or the break room where the chairs are 6 feet apart that everyone moves together.
Unrelated, but one of my coworkers also almost died today from a peanut allergy. Ate a piece of candy that had traces of peanut in it, apparently.
I know audiophools (the kind of audiophile that buys $1000 cables for a digital output) are incredibly gullible, but... there exist audiophile SATA cables.
I consider myself to have sensitive ears(painfully so), but there's just a certain point where the static, corruption, whatever it is in whatever I'm listening to is probably going to be indistinguishable from the constant endless ringing that I have for the sound of "nothing". And if I'm actually trying to listen for that kind of thing, I'm probably not vibing with the music.
As mentioned, the only probable explanation is the data is corrupted, and if the data is getting so corrupted it affects sound date to an audible degree... then I recommend trying a cheap replacement SATA cable to check if something else hasn't catastrophically failed, and hope that does the trick because otherwise you have a much bigger problem.