nightanole
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Well avguide.com just finished up their six month review of usb audio.
TAS 194: The State of USB Audio | AVguide
I normally hang out in the diy forum but i was wondering what other people thought of this crap.
He thinks a $500 6 foot usb cable sounds better then a $50 usb cable (guess $5 sounded like phone cord) and CHANGED the color of the music. Changed the bass and highs just like analog cables do, only without all the technical stuff like inductance and capacitive effects. Thats like saying reds of a jpeg look better over cat6 then cat5 due to higher bandwidth.
When using the same dac, the same source cd, played back uncompressed, both non upsampled, he says that usb to coax sounds alot worse the just from a transport.
This is with him spending 6 months on equipment that cost over $500 for the usb or usb dac parts.
I dont get how a usb cable can affect a bit stream.
i dont get how a usb to I2s or coax could affect sound any more then a transport to I2s or coax when it isnt resampled.
In just about any usb dac above $50 its converted to I2s, and then sent to a standard dac. Normally with options to send transport coax to the same dac. And the transport sound better?
Could anyone explain how this could be possible before i chalk this up to snake oil?
TAS 194: The State of USB Audio | AVguide
I normally hang out in the diy forum but i was wondering what other people thought of this crap.
He thinks a $500 6 foot usb cable sounds better then a $50 usb cable (guess $5 sounded like phone cord) and CHANGED the color of the music. Changed the bass and highs just like analog cables do, only without all the technical stuff like inductance and capacitive effects. Thats like saying reds of a jpeg look better over cat6 then cat5 due to higher bandwidth.
When using the same dac, the same source cd, played back uncompressed, both non upsampled, he says that usb to coax sounds alot worse the just from a transport.
This is with him spending 6 months on equipment that cost over $500 for the usb or usb dac parts.
I dont get how a usb cable can affect a bit stream.
i dont get how a usb to I2s or coax could affect sound any more then a transport to I2s or coax when it isnt resampled.
In just about any usb dac above $50 its converted to I2s, and then sent to a standard dac. Normally with options to send transport coax to the same dac. And the transport sound better?
Could anyone explain how this could be possible before i chalk this up to snake oil?