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Headphoneus Supremus
"NOT EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE MEASURED COUNTS, AND NOT EVERYTHING THAT COUNTS CAN BE MEASURED."
- ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Oh THIS troll is back!
"NOT EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE MEASURED COUNTS, AND NOT EVERYTHING THAT COUNTS CAN BE MEASURED."
- ALBERT EINSTEIN.
It doesn't work that way. It's the little lightning icon on the menu bar, next to your notifications, etc. Click on that and you'll see all of the newest posts in every sub-forum on Head-Fi. Every time a new post is added to a thread, the thread moves to the top of the list until another thread gets a newer post. Once you've clicked on a thread, it disappears from the list that you see until another post has been made in the thread. The only way the thread stops being in the new posts list is if nobody posts in it.I'll be happy when we are off the home page
Any certified USB cable should be fine. You can run video through USB and that is a MUCH bigger stream of data to pass than audio. I've heard there are uncertified Chinese USB cables that are funky, but I've never seen any of them. I just use Amazon basics. It works perfect. If a USB cable is bad, it isn't subtle. You know it.
It's not whether the cable will work or not since all of mine worked on the Qutest and all but the Morrow Audio worked on the Hugo TT2. It's about which cable sounds the same and by far and away, the Sablon 2020 Panatela Reserva Elite USB cable sounds far better than the rest (Kimber AG, AudioQuest Cinnamon, Analysis plus purple). Very noticeable difference on my highly resolving system and on the Chord DAVE at TheSourceAv
But numbers and information say otherwise. Also human limits as well.
The thresholds of human hearing are the specs that most audiophiles are clueless about. They know the noise floor of every piece of equipment they own, and buy components capable of reproducing super audible frequencies, but they don’t understand how those numbers translate into audible sound. They assume that if the numbers are different, they can hear a difference. But that isn’t how thresholds work.
Well, they're differences, in the 0.0x dB order of magnitude. That's great if you can hear that, maybe cables make a difference to you .
I say that you have an Amazon cable yet you probably haven't extensively tested $500 cables. I have, and on my systems and with several ears including mine, we can tell different. You just can't either because you haven't actually tried it yourself or you don't even bother to do so.The thing a lot of people don’t understand is that when it comes to passing a signal across, a cable can only degrade the signal. It can’t improve it. The signal is what it is. If a cable is designed for the purpose you’re using it for, and there are no manufacturing defects, it can’t get any better. You can get a decent Amazon Basics cable and it will sound just as good as a $500 audiophile cable. An audiophile cable might be prettier, with fancy connectors and braided covers. But the sound is the same- perfect for human ears. It’s OK to want fancy cables as “jewelry”. And I suppose a fancy cable might be built a little tougher if you are plugging and unplugging often. But as long as a cable conducts properly, it sounds perfect. I use monoprice and Amazon basics and don’t need anything better. I hide my cables behind the components. I don’t display them as decoration.
Everyone here can change, but only if relevant evidence is provided and it is repeatable by others. Claiming something by virtue needs to be supported by evidence. It isn't arrogance, is how science works, provide evidence that the null its not right, and we'll change.