about stereophile magazines recommendation of belk


hi, i read this article and figured for a low price to give it a try. i unhooked my wireworld violet usb and the belkin usb gold does a few things well [details] but so far i am not impressed[especially the ambience]. in the story they mentioned 'balanced' and i may have got the wrong cord possibly. i am using this between my mac with pure music and my m f v-dac. any ideas?, thanks john
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If in fact there are any differences, I see no reason to expect them to be anything other than random and unpredictable, with little or no correlation with price, and with little or no consistency from system to system. Any sonic differences would be dependent on the type of dac (asynchronous/non-asynchronous, etc.), the length of the cable, the impedance accuracies of the computer and dac, the risetimes and falltimes of the computer output, emi/rfi sensitivity of the components in the system, ground loop susceptibility of the particular components and the particular setup, the particular computer hardware, extraneous background processes that may be running in the computer, etc. etc.

While some things in audio may cause a sonic difference, that doesn't necessarily mean that a sonic character should be attributed to them.

Regards,
-- Al