High_Q
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Expand on that or examples? What is the cause of the interface issues?
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>The thing is: Asynchronous USB data transfer doesn't guarantee perfect sound. Well, technically speaking, it does. But bit-perfect transfer doesn't guarantee enjoyable sound.
async usb doesn't guarantee bit perfect transfer. That's BS. If you do interface issues from the cable or the usb chip or something, these will show up as dropped samples.
Since async transfer mode doesn't have retransmission on error, it can't guarantee bit-perfect transfer...It can however minimize timing errors in the form of jittteeer (bulk mode is still better, since the info at the DAC end comes out bit perfect/what left at the PC end)
Otherwise, I don't find their comment particularly criminal, heh, I think the website means it in the "don't necessarily trust bs marketing and test it for yourself" way, which is not a bad way 'as long as you're happy'. On a bright stax system, I was more happy with a NOS dac sound than I was with Benchmark DAC1, so their comment makes sense to me (although that's not async usb, but you get the point)... That said, a decent DAC instead of the NOS one would have done better so maybe there is a point to cut the romantic BS where it grows since NOS dac marketing is full of fluffy bs as well