wow still people don't believe there a difference in sound with usb cables, wow! again.
I don't know the how or why but I can hear it. ive went with a belkin gold usb and it sounded good. I decided to try a pangea usb w/ 4% silver a few months ago and wasn't thinking I was going to here anything, wow I said to my self that's sound so good, better then the belkin.
a week ago I bought the pangea pure silver usb again wow! I heard more detail clearer highs.
the people saying theres no difference must not have high end equipment or never tried a good usb cable.
I do believe that you ear a difference, that's why company (with big money) still "waste" their time with placebo. Placebo are effective, sometime even more then the real pill. Here we are not arguing that sugar pills doesn't heal people, we simply say that there is no basis for a cable to make a difference in the sound. That's why there is a double blind test (double is actually that the person listening to it doesn't know which cable is plugged AND (that's where the double come from) the person who ask you doesn't know as well.
Try it for fun, buy a cable even more expensive (who care about the quality) just get the most expensive you can find, you will see that it sound better. That's how human we are made. That's why there is the homeopathie, placebo, etc. There was even an article I saw that was talking about the placebo effect of the fake surgery. Some people get cured without receiving the actual surgery, they basically open them up and close them without doing anything. Result are very impressive (and ethically challenging as well) and we still don't understand how it's even possible. Ha that little thing that nobody fully understand yet, called the brain. Now do you hear a difference, ho yeah! Now do there is a difference, that's an other topic... Are you crazy? No, just human.
Now do I have listen to those expensive usb cable? No, as I'm not inclined to take a sugar pill or homeopathy as well. The audiophile cable there is no logic what so ever being this. Hey, read this: http://gizmodo.com/363154/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger
Maybe I should start selling coat hanger as audiophile cable, since they sound as good as monster cable. Now here the real reason why people sell homeopathie or "audiophile" usb cable: http://consumerist.com/2008/02/08/monster-cables-monster-ripoff-80-markups/
Ho yes, what a surprise, money!
I recently looked at those audiophile cable, well a friend was over and he did not believe that people were paying up to $1000 for a cable. I explained him that yeah, people beleive that last 6 inch (for a power cable) will actually made a difference big enough even if that 6 last inch is meaning less if you take into the account all the cable you have inside the wall of your house, or other appliance that do a lot of interference and inject those directly into your electrical system, the shield of the last 6 inch when you look at it in that perspective, is well, meaning less. But still people beleive, that's good. Anyway, I was looking closer, and yes, they put carbon fiber on those connector.Yes it's expensive, and it's light, super cool on a car or on bike, well for something that move, but do you really NOT think that it's a big waste on a connector? Ho well. There is no point of using precious material like gold or silver in a cable as well, but still, so much nicer sounding.
You may like the look of your cable, but the sound change, seriously, if you want a new sound, change your headphone, amp or even you dac.
Here a picture of my 5$ usb cable, it's going into what I would call of mess of electric cable before going into my computer (full of noise a computer by the way, but who cares when you shield the last 6 feet). And even if I put my auditor to the max I don't hear any noise. If my usb were adding anything I would logically ear it, if you do, you have a bad dac, get a new one.
You can see all my non-audiophile cable. Does my setup sound nice? Hell yes, it's simply amazing.
That was my last post on cable, not that I don't want you to reply, I think everybody is free to argue that my setup is **** and that I'm missing so much, but in fact we never miss what we don't know we could actually be missing.
Have a nice one