High_Q
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Can you break down more please?
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Can you break down more please?
The cable is just a transfer medium, the decoding and its timing are done on the DAC itself, and it should be very accurate. The data does not flow through the cable during play. I think people are confusing it with an analog signal interconnect. That's probably how people get bought into the scam. For example, just look at how video is streamed through network. The data is fetched before it is decoded.
I'm not sure if that's how USB audio works though...any sort of network streaming also has error correction, while standard USB audio does not. I don't think it fetches any data beforehand, I think it simply streams the raw data directly to the DAC.
Not that it'd make any huge difference in the end though, either way...the margin of error here is pretty small.
The data does not flow through the cable during play. I think people are confusing it with an analog signal interconnect.
so does higher sampling rate, given the same bit size, does not require a higher frequency digital signal, the recovery of which would have a lower jitter tolerance? (from what I understand).
As per the high frequency artifacts why my DI is set to 192 kHz sampling rate, its either the interface or the cable, I currently can't verify which it is for now. Sorry to confuse/mislead anyone.
Personally I don't have too much of a problem with over-engineering, as long as it is actually effective in setting out what it claims to do.
IMO the aforementioned listening tests should be the primary means of debunking cables, as there are much easier ways to do this electronically.
As was mentioned, if jitter isn't important then a whole lot of what digital interfaces and DAC architectures are designed around is also rubbish.
This is not true.
USB audio works like SPDIF and everything is live-stream.
There is no buffer like how computer deals with online audio/video stream.
Absolutely untrue.
Every USB audio interface is accessed via a buffer. It is not like S/PDiF.