A long harsh digital trip - final meter?


So the digital signal manages to find its way to a utility pole in front of your house. Then enjoys a coaxial sprint to a modem, and then head over to a modem, router and then into a Roon nucleus. Up to this point, a rugged unprotected harsh trip. And now this signal flows along a very refined ubs cable and arrives at a dac for final prep work before reaching a high end system. 
      So why does the final leg of the signal’s journey inside a usb cable seem to matter so much toward improving sound quality? What happens here to revive a digital signal that has traveled hundreds of disgusting dirty miles to reach the analogue chamber of rebirth? So I guess it’s possible to truly transform and correct a digital signal during a very short journey thru a usb cable?
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"So I guess it’s possible to truly transform and correct a digital signal during a very short journey thru a usb cable?"

No. 

It's possible to truly transform and destroy a digital signal during a very short journey through a USB cable. 

Many here do so with great flair and hubris.  :) 



djones51, what you have suggested in terms of sound enhancement, I have no comment, as I have not done so. However, as to methodology, if you do not treat all the cables similarly, you are not showing superiority one cable over the other; you are showing a potentially efficacious method.

What if that method was applied to all the cables? Have you tried such a comparison?

BTW, have you actually done the comparison you suggest?