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You're not a serious audiophile until you've got yourself one of these $3,549 3-foot USB cables.

You may not sell a lot of them, but only a few makes your whole year!
 
(Think they could make me some longer ones?)

So what is the theory, regular USB cables lose some 0s and 1s??

If you read the vendor's text, he makes no claims at all of a technical nature. He only describes how high-quality the cables' construction is.


However, he does quote some gullible reviewers:

What, you ask, are the improvements? To that I reply, "Everything"..."
..."Everything sounds more forward, clearer, sharper, more focused and just damn better..."

And really, who can argue against that?

I heard depth and detail that had never come out of my digital music server no matter how expensive the DAC all with pinpoint imaging, tons of air and space around the instruments and a rich, lush, tube like sound with ample bass and sparkling treble..."

I don't doubt that the reviewer did in fact hear all that. Some people hear their dead relatives in the static of a clear television channel, too. So if somebody says they heard "tons of air" I have no grounds upon which to challenge them.

A serious comment: I have used both a very cheap interconnect with my CD player, and a moderately decent interconnect that I picked up used (not expensive).  There clearly is a difference.

I suspect it is like everything else, law of diminishing returns.  $10 > $75 fairly certain there would be a real difference.  $150 > $2,376.06, not so much.

If I had $2,376.06 to spend, it would surely not be on cables... could get a number of good sample libraries, etc., etc., for that sort of money; not "snake oil".

What can be of use though are good used audiophile speakers, that are sometimes as flat as monitors.  For general listening, some of the lower end audiophile speakers cost about the same as the "good" consumer grade speakers, and the quality difference is quite real.

Some of the audiophile companies also make monitors as well (if I could afford them, which I cannot, PMC would be high on the list, B&W as well).

One potential online source for the good used stuff is Audiogon.

And <smile> regarding the "wife notch" filter.

There's a guy that I work with who is an "audiophile" and he tries to convince me that a lot of that stuff is not just "snake oil."  but he always uses language which is completely subjectional and impossible to disprove.  I keep asking him for data to back up his claims, which of course are impossible to produce.

I think I'm going to use spacey's phrase on him next time we have a "discussion" about it. 

(Oops...  I forgot my [Sarcasm]...[/Sarcasm] tags.  My bad.)

I heard depth and detail that had never come out of my digital music server no matter how expensive the DAC all with pinpoint imaging, tons of air and space around the instruments and a rich, lush, tube like sound with ample bass and sparkling treble..."

I can't believe someone actually said "a rich, lush, tube like sound" from a better USB cable. Why is it that everything that subjectively sounds better to someone sounds "more tube like"? Tube guitar amps give a more pleasing distortion and some high end audio is still tube based but I just don't believe all the tube audio hype. I have a Dynakit stereo and a Fisher 700 but I use either a Sansui 770 or a Pioneer SX-1010 if I want to play LPs. I could probably benefit from better speaker cables but I really doubt if I would hear any difference. 

I just noticed that the reviewer said, "digital music server"... what? 

J

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