[revolink24]

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RCA by design cannot be 75 ohms, but it really REALLY doesn't matter as in 99% of commercial gear, a simple pair of wires (not 75 ohm coax) run from the connector to the PCB and the PCB traces certainly aren't 75 ohm.
 
Async vs Adaptive USB : whole other story.  Async USB is still not properly buffered or error-corrected (which should really have been done when drivers were written, but I'm an optimistic software engineer...)

Well, when you consider things like Canare RCAPs (used on those Blue Jeans Cables), the difference is infinitesimally negligible. True 75 ohms, as some like to call it, really isn't different from something that is functionally 75 ohms.

 

[anetode]

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How on Earth can they get away with that!

Because it doesn't matter in the slightest. Just like the whole BNC/RCA/USB/1394/Optical thing.

 

[ford2]

 
 
So glad that a few are starting to realise that 95% of the audio industry is built on myths.
 
What is strange is that some can hear a difference between them.

 

[Baird GoW]

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So glad that a few are starting to realise that 95% of the audio industry is built on myths.
 
What is strange is that some can hear a difference between them.

or so they say... for a while I really thought I was apart of that group but really it should be whatever sounds best to you.

 

[Omega17TheTrue]

Because it doesn't matter in the slightest. Just like the whole BNC/RCA/USB/1394/Optical thing.

Just like every DAC its only digital so they all sound the same.

 

[FallenAngel]

Well, "the whole BNC/RCA/USB/1394/Optical thing" actually does matter - there are drastically different protocols there - you can perhaps group together "BNC/RCA - both coax S/PDIF and Optical TosLink as it's also S/PDIF", but USB and 1394 are considerably different implementations...

 

[grokit]

^ What FA said.

 

[ford2]

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Well, "the whole BNC/RCA/USB/1394/Optical thing" actually does matter - there are drastically different protocols there - you can perhaps group together "BNC/RCA - both coax S/PDIF and Optical TosLink as it's also S/PDIF", but USB and 1394 are considerably different implementations...

Using the same source/same dac and connecting via all of the above with a bit perfect signal should result in the same sound.
 
If not then something is amiss with the gear or your ears.

 

[grokit]

I would add that optical is arguably the most jitter-prone of the s/pdif protocols, but it is completely isolated from noise electrically.

 

[Lazerboy2000]

Can we get back on topic please?

 

[FallenAngel]

 
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Well, "the whole BNC/RCA/USB/1394/Optical thing" actually does matter - there are drastically different protocols there - you can perhaps group together "BNC/RCA - both coax S/PDIF and Optical TosLink as it's also S/PDIF", but USB and 1394 are considerably different implementations...

Using the same source/same dac and connecting via all of the above with a bit perfect signal should result in the same sound.
 
If not then something is amiss with the gear or your ears.

Absolutely not.  The implementation of the digital receiver in the DAC, along with the implementation of the digital source can and do affect the signal.

 

[FallenAngel]

Yes, to make up for it, I'll have photos of my new setup uploaded tonight
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Can we get back on topic please?

 

[Pseudonyms]

Got myself a new camera. 
 

 
I need to clean up

 

[BobSaysHi]

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Got myself a new camera. 
 

Nice rubik's cubes.

 

[pocketrocket]

Pseydonyms, such hueg floorstanding speakers yet a much smaller subwoofer for them?