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2013/09/02 23:26:50
Living Room Rocker
Ok, I came across this article/review when checking out feedback on the release on Reaper 4.5:  http://www.audiostream.com/content/usb-cable-shootout
 
Now tell me that only digital info is crossing over a USB cable and not "audio".  It's all digital so how the hell can digital conversion be affected by a 1 meter USB cable?  It's all in the converters, right?  Can you really hear an audible difference from one USB cable to another?
2013/09/03 07:02:30
fireberd
Typical "audiophile".  I'm not saying everything the audiophile's subscribe to is bunk, but a lot of it is.
2013/09/03 07:44:33
Guitarhacker
utter nonsense. The USB cable is for digital data, not audio.......digital is digital...... not until it gets converted into audio is it something you hear. Until that conversion it is a series of square wave pulses ...... simple on or off voltages...... nothing more.
 
Spending $500+ for a 3 foot USB cable for data is ridiculous. Go to Staples or Office Depot and buy one off the shelf for $30 that is 15 feet long and it will work perfectly in any DAW to transfer data around the studio.
2013/09/03 08:58:26
DeeringAmps

am I the one that's crazy?

Only if you buy one!
 

 
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2013/09/03 10:21:09
Cactus Music
The scary thing is there are "people" who will buy into that. Male/ has high paying job/ single and wants the best of it all. 
2013/09/03 11:45:29
drewfx1
1. Some people will believe any sort of nonsense that marketing people tell them (often corroborated by accompanying magazine/web articles). They are not technically minded enough to be able to tell the difference between techno-speak nonsense and physics, so they tend to believe stuff if it can be made to sound plausible to them.
 
2. Because for some reason they have a strong emotional desire to believe in such things, they will automatically reject any educated arguments explaining why whatever it is couldn't make a difference, the supposed differences can't be measured (or when measured are far below the threshold of being audible) and the fact that differences are only "heard" during sighted testing.
 
 
Surprisingly many people here, who you would think should know better, behave exactly the same way when confronted with something that sounds plausible to them but they don't fully understand. You can tell them why it's fairly easy to prove that it's bogus marketing, but it doesn't even move their needle to introduce even a tiny bit of doubt in their minds. 
2013/09/03 12:17:01
bitflipper
"A $100 Apogee cable will make as much difference as a $3,000 D-A converter"
- World-famous mastering engineer / nutjob John Vestman
http://www.johnvestman.com/studio_monitor_madness.htm
 
 
2013/09/03 13:21:08
SuperG
Heh,
 
Anybody that tells you they can hear 'jitter' on a USB is clearly full of it - USB doesn't use a synchronous protocol, for that matter, neither does Firewire... isochronous may be time coherent, but it isn't phase coherent...
 
'Squarer' waves... what a load...
2013/09/03 16:22:30
Living Room Rocker
Thanks, everyone!  Whew, I feared I would have to rethink everything.  Actually, I was expecting a unanimous, "What planet are you from?" kind of response.  It feels good to know I am not out in left field on this one.
 
Kind regards,
 
Living Room Rocker
2013/09/03 19:34:30
Chris S
I'll sell you my USB cable for just $699.
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