@pedroeb I’m assuming you’re using the Diamond USB cable to your DAC. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to use an $800.00 cable to connect a Solid State Drive.
Can This Really Matter?
I hear it again and again, everything matters in the digital chain. So I recently unboxed my new Bryston BDP 3 renderer and it’s connected to my Ayre QB9 Twenty USB DAC. I have a SSD inside a generic enclosure (with a fan) that will power up via bus. I have a twenty cent USB cable running from the SSD to the Bryston. So here’s the question, does the enclosure matter and does the cheap USB running between between the SSD and into the Bryston really matter? If so, it wouldn’t seem practical to spend much money on upgrading these accessories. And if so, what do you suggest?
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@dadork Thanks! Yeah good cables everywhere else . |
@tomcy6 I could probably go through my local dealer on a reasonably priced cable. And as I can sit it on top of the Bryston, it only needs to reach about eight inches. Know anything on Amazon? |
@sandstone The USB cable I'm running between the Bryston and he Ayre is a Wire World Platinum Starlight, their best USB cable. So today, I ordered a Wire World Chroma 8 USB 3.0 to run between the SSD / Enclosure and the Bryston. I'm thinking the transfer of data will be a lot faster. Also the shielding and gold plated terminations might help. |
@ghdprentice Of course there's no sound aspect coming from the SSD, it's strictly a matter of moving data, so I don't know how to determine which cable upgrade to settle on. My guess would be to just pick a price point and done. @cleeds I'll probably send the unit back to Bryston to have a SSD installed but it will be a while from now. My thought is that having an internal SSD installed means that I could potentially loose all of those files, for example in doing a factory reset. |
@sagur80 So your running this $1,000.00 cable from an external hard drive to a renderer/transport/streamer? |