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| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste If you’re referring to the speed of the signal there is virtually no difference through copper or silver. In both cases it’s near lightspeed. I was referring to the data edge rate, not the speed in term of data rate or propagation speed. The ... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste For very high frequency applications like USB cables wouldn’t pure silver strands or silver plated copper strands be best, given that the signals travel very close to the surface of the conductors? Controlling the USB cables for directionality -... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste There is an excellent article from the late Charles Hansen Ayre designer about the USB DAC. Although the article does not about USB cable specifically, but it will give you understanding of USB DAC architecture in general and how the cable "COULD... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste A poor value even if it does make a difference. Why would it make a difference though? That is a question I'd like to know. | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste 2. If the DAC is receiving a degraded waveform and the data recovery circuitry is working hard to sort through it, does this circuitry not increase the electrical noise in the DAC? If so, is it negligible or does that just depend on the DAC de... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste 1. Can a 1 be mistaken for a 0 at the usb receiver if the waveform is degraded enough?It can get complicated. For CD, their is error correction. If a byte comes in with error, and if the error is not catastrophic, the error can be corrected. But i... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Just a FYI.The reason redbook format has such low resolution, because at the time, you know back in the early digital age, the CD storage could not hold as much information as it does now. If redbook was to have the same resolution as SACD, the s... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Again, the OP link to the TAS article is a not a review. It is clearly an advertisement for the USB cable. | |
| Fake XLO cables from China Did you have to pay Trump tariffs on those cables? | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Nonoise,Today, most, if not ALL, USB DAC use asynchronous USB architecture which uses a local clock to clock in the data, so data jitter is no longer an issue. Therefore you have to be able to explain at least in theory why data jitter would affe... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste The OP link to the TAS article was not meant to be a "review". I don’t think TAS made any claim that they actually reviewed the cable so the OP opinion was not accurate.Here is a better review of various USB cables. It was an old review so some of... | |
| What do you think of the DIY Cat 5 speaker cables I have done it myself but I think the cable may have a bit too much capacitance. The sound lacks a bit of transparency and the bass is a bit compromised. And those CAT5 cables are not cheap. I think you're better off buying some decent affordab... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste First in order to convince that USB cables do make a difference, people in the business have to be able to articulate at least in theory why would a USB cable would make a difference. Using common sense, if you can't prove that something on paper... | |
| The Science of Cables And the brain's expectation after such a purchase will provide you with, not what you hear, but what you want to hear. I agree. Question your own brain first. "Know thyself first" ... forgot who said that lols. | |
| I've never believed much in cables, that said... (USB) OK, I remember now. You're the viridian guy. I called you the brick.. Why did I wasted my time lols. |