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| USB cable hype "I'm not sure how you came up with that. PCM data can be transferred in more than 1 way. 75ohm coax, Toslink, 110ohm balanced, AT&T ST fibre optic, I2S, USB....."Basic physics explains why faster data rates cannot travel as far as slower data ... | |
| USB cable hype I have listened to my DAC with the vanilla cable that came with the DAC and without cables (just a thumb drive). No difference. That is how Asynchronous USB DACs should behave by design. My question wasn't about the cable's effects on SQ. It was a... | |
| USB cable hype Thanks for your reply. | |
| USB cable hype I never said cables don't matter. I said transmission should be error-free over a short USB cable. I would like to hear the reasons why you disagree. Your answer should be more substantiated than "I heard it was better". Not to say that your exper... | |
| USB cable hype Of course, you do. My question was, "Can you explain it"? | |
| USB cable hype "Impedance of the USB cable is irrelevant."Over a long length cable, distributed capacitance will close the eye enough to to cause bit errors. | |
| USB cable hype Contrary to what you have assumed, I don't want to hear an answer that supports mine. I want to hear an answer that challenges mine. | |
| USB cable hype There are two reasons for the question: 1) there could be something I don't know, like some manufacturing issues with USB cables (but even then I doubt the solution would necessarily be expensive) and 2) spread the word. | |
| Equitech with digital only? Yes. Isolating power supplies is ideal. | |
| Equitech with digital only? Ptss, Power supply noise affects both digital and analog circuits. Its effects on digital circuits become a problem in in the GHz range. Even then the effects are limited to bit errors. You can't hear a bit error. In other words, you can't hear th... | |
| Equitech with digital only? All power power supplies inject noise into the signal. Analog signals are continuous. Therefore, they are continuously subjected to power supply noise. Digital signals are retimed (chopped up). Essentially, their signal integrity is restored every... | |
| Tube preamp between Oppo 105 and Meridian G57 amp I know what you mean. I thought the sound quality would degrade by removing the G68 processor and connecting the Oppo player directly to the amps. Not so. While I prefer movies with the G68 processor, I prefer music without it. Maybe because the p... | |
| Equitech with digital only? I have one and use it for my processor and digital sources only. It does help. The theory behind why balanced power is helpful applies to analog more than digital but it applies to digital products as well. | |
| Can Meridian G68 preamp bypass DSP & stay analog? In my personal experience with telecom applications, clean-up PLLs improve perform best for noisy clocks but improve performance very little to not at all for clean clocks. I suppose the same may be true for audio applications. Hence, money may be... | |
| Can Meridian G68 preamp bypass DSP & stay analog? Having said this, I agree that a new source is probably in order. I am just not sure which one and which approach. I would like to hear someone has auditioned a MAC mini with a Emperical Audio Sychro-Mesh against sources costing >10X more. I wo... |