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PostPosted: May 13th, 2021, 12:19 am 
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TubeDriver wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncAhs44sp8


That's very interesting. I'm a believer in the differences between USB cables, but I tried this at home. Now, I may not have done it right, but you only have to be off by one sample for the tracks not to cancel each other.


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PostPosted: May 13th, 2021, 9:08 am 
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So he seemed to address the issue of timing the tracks. I agree, any timing issue and the test is not valid.

To be honest, I am surprised he got such a measurable difference. -25db down would definitely be audible.


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PostPosted: May 13th, 2021, 4:23 pm 
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I was amazed while at Charlie's with the difference in USB cables. Jim recently lent me one of the cables we auditioned and I put it in my system and it again reinforced the difference that USB cables make. I can't think of a reason why that should happen but I do hear the difference. "Every day beautiful theory is shattered by ugly old reality"


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PostPosted: May 14th, 2021, 11:59 am 
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That was a fascinating video. It was surprising how much difference there was. Of course the leading/trailing edge of the square wave or pulse waveform is going to be impacted by the cable capacitance/inductance (rounding or ringing), as well as transmission line reflections. You are depending on triggers to detect a threshold voltage that constitutes a "1" or "0". I suppose this is more of a "jitter" issue, affecting the timing of when the change in state is detected. I was not expecting as much of audible difference though, that was very surprising. However I can say in my listening that USB cables have a significant audible influence on sound.

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If you want to build your own cheap endpoint, the Dell/Wyse 5070 thin client looks like a great start. Newegg has a bunch of different refurbished models available for <$200 with RAM & storage (OS only, not enough for music)....

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PostPosted: May 16th, 2021, 12:04 pm 
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waiting for a comment from Dave R on the USB cable test


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PostPosted: June 3rd, 2021, 10:01 am 
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Interesting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvu_doQfAI0


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PostPosted: June 3rd, 2021, 11:35 am 
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TubeDriver wrote:



It certainly is. Good luck finding a Pi2AES, though. :-(


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PostPosted: June 3rd, 2021, 1:13 pm 
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I gather from the video that my Holo May DAC's USB implementation is so good that it is a non-issue. But still interesting that he can see such a difference in the DACs analogue output due to noise and jitter on input.


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TubeDriver wrote:



It certainly is. Good luck finding a Pi2AES, though. :-(


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PostPosted: June 3rd, 2021, 1:15 pm 
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TubeDriver wrote:
I gather from the video that my Holo May DAC's USB implementation is so good that it is a non-issue. But still interesting that he can see such a difference in the DACs analogue output due to noise and jitter on input.


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It certainly is. Good luck finding a Pi2AES, though. :-(


Yes, that was interesting too, about the Holo.


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