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Can someone explain what this “issue” is and why it’s a problem?

Citizen, you are demonstrating insufficient amounts of Nervosa. Please stand by to be re-educated by shills for $500 USB cables.

Some people just have to scream their idiot politics at every opportunity. Is there no normal conversation you won’t disrupt with some MAGA dickwaving?

Cable shilling season is again in full swing.

I find it pretty disrespectful to demand details using loaded words like “allegedly“, after a professional developer has just explained things to you. Why in the first place does it matter under which path a podcast app saves its data? It’s transient and ephemeral, more like a cache.

I assume you’re not American? In the US, there is no standard consumer to consumer bank transfer like in most of the world. Instead we have multiple shades of shady private companies inserting themselves as middlemen. The EU with almost 30 sovereign countries, has regulation to force banks to...

Oh well, I guess that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

This is hilarious and I don't know why. (Did we lose Likes on this platform?)

This is awesome, and I have no tubes in the house and I'm ideologically mildly anti-tubular, so +1 for historical accuracy. Tubes are critical enabling technology for electric guitars, the undisputed peak of the so-called western civilization.

This will get you arrested in Florida or probably shot by an enraged Florida Man.

Yes, do not use non-MFI lightning cables. They are usually just for charging. The OP asked about USB cables from Apple adapter to USB DAC.

The question was about the USB cable part in the chain iPad -> Apple lightning/USB "camera kit" -> USB cable -> DAC. Are you claiming to need some special bespoke audio USB cable there? ETA: and if Schiit requires some special cable, they should state so in the docs. Since they tend to do the...

There is no special "Apple" USB cable. Just get one from a reputable brand that looks pleasant to you. No need for cable nervosa - disregard anyone trying to peddle exotic cables, especially for digital data. If it matches the spec, it will work.

So this is the environmental issue you’re concerned about? I know the fossil fuel funded media has been trying to make this the worst environmental problem ever facing humanity. One has to be damn gullible and innumerate to repeat that bs.

That site is a chi-fi marketing site. It's a sales funnel.

So you have heard it and compared the outputs? If it’s not up to your standards, buy something else. Simple. But if you’re basing this on someone else’s opinion on these internets, remember that they are worth what you paid for them.

Well, as even the ancient Romans said, de gustibus non disputandum est.

Check out this BBC doc on audiophiles in 1959. Still accurate. https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1381615591212089344?s=20

People in this thread object to anybody objecting to their off topic posting... just use “ignore”. FWIW, I muted those guys for their endless repetition of the same “jokes” and catchphrases. I also ignore/mute cable cookery kooks and power cable rollers on first sighting these days.

what, I need to buy a real reading lamp now?

Just use a sharpie to mark the direction. It’s the method approved at the highest levels of government.

Awesome. Now you've "improved" a 6 foot piece of power cable. What are you doing about the tens or hundreds of feet of cable in your walls? My standard build procedure involves exactly 8 minutes of loving kindness meditation towards the gear I'm installing. It really* works.

I love that delicately drawn curve of the meter. Art, so wow.

I'm curious to know why you recommend gen2, not gen3? I've been eyeing XPA gen3 for my upcoming LXMini build (with three 2x65W stereo modules). ($30K speakers though? I can't even comprehend such a thing.)