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And Eratosthenes' experiment around 245 BCE got a pretty good measure of the circumference. How widely that was known, where and when, is another matter entirely.
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Do USB Audio Cables Make A Difference?
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does worth upgrade to silver cable usb-A to usb B on rme adi-2 fs? or stock cable is good sound performance too?
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Stock cable is just fine. If it functions, usb cables make no difference https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...nductor-v-usb-cable-review.42731/post-1511759
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maybe this one way better vs stock rme adi-2 fs usb cable? https://bmc-audio.com/index.php/pur...LDulCA_3itaAoiuYTA_aem_aAa9cc47xraMj55jkAwZig
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I'm not sure you understood my response. There is no such thing as "better".
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There is no way to improve upon the sound quality of the stock USB cable.
The stock cable already has flawless sound.
If you're itching to spend money, you're better off using it to buy music, to buy a fancy reclining chair to listen to it, etc.
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but cable even dont has gold or copper coating on end of usb.
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so,truthear hexa for 80eur souds same as oriolus trailli for 3000eur?If you're itching to spend money, you're better off using it to buy music, to buy a fancy reclining chair to listen to it, etc.
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then better sound transmit? silver cable transmit 105% vs copper only 100% sound quality. so,silver cable is "Better'
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No:
The difference in conductivity between copper and silver is inconsequential and does not affect sound transmit.
The silver cable is not better at transmitting USB audio. In any way.
It's just more expensive.
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Please check the priciples of digital tramsmission. The material of any cable will not have effect on the data inside the digital domain - if transmission works.
So it is simple: do you hear sound with your USB cable, then it will not get better with any other.
So it is simple: do you hear sound with your USB cable, then it will not get better with any other.
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This is looking a lot like poor quality trolling. Make it "better" or you won't be here much longer.
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obviously ASR has still a long way to go
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Absolutely not.
Metal conductivity has an impact on resistance within a certain length. This has literally no influence on "sound quality" for a 1.5 meter USB cable, not to mention we are talking about digital transmission.
PS : You should better spend more time reading the answers you receive than persevering in your beliefs.
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Dumped a few cable related posts from the RME review thread into here. @leonasj500 if you are serious with your queries about USB cables please read post no 1 in this thread and ask anymore questions in this thread please.
www.audiosciencereview.com
TLDR you wont find much support here for the view that a (functioning) stock USB cable (or pretty much any other type of cable) can be improved upon.
Do USB Audio Cables Make A Difference?
Aftermarket USB cables seem to be all the rage with people paying as much as $15,000 for a short run of it!!! Lots of subjective performance reports are out there but none back with any objective measurements that demonstrates any difference. On the other side of the fence many believe there...
www.audiosciencereview.com
TLDR you wont find much support here for the view that a (functioning) stock USB cable (or pretty much any other type of cable) can be improved upon.
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understand. usb cable transmits only I/0 signal dont any perfotmance on sound quality,as rme converts it to analog signal.Dumped a few cable related posts from the RME review thread into here. @leonasj500 if you are serious with your queries about USB cables please read post no 1 in this thread and ask anymore questions in this thread please.
Do USB Audio Cables Make A Difference?
Aftermarket USB cables seem to be all the rage with people paying as much as $15,000 for a short run of it!!! Lots of subjective performance reports are out there but none back with any objective measurements that demonstrates any difference. On the other side of the fence many believe there...
TLDR you wont find much support here for the view that a (functioning) stock USB cable (or pretty much any other type of cable) can be improved upon.
At the risk of repeating the obvious, digital signals are a type of analogue signal with only 2 levels or states expressed as steps in the signal (ideally a square wave). It's possible a "digital" signal is changed during transmission, but error checks simply discard erroneous packets and no-one is the wiser. The same goes for timing / jitter. Most DAC's get timing within a few nanosecs which is neither here nor there to the human ear, even with high frequencies.
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All the gold coatings are just eyewash anyway, because there is always a nickel coating underneath.
So you pay a surcharge for an additional contact resistance.
By the way, many gold-colored contacts are not gold-plated at all, but are made of brass or have been galvanized in the color or coated in some other way.
A copper coating would be absolute nonsense for a plug connection, because after a short time a patina with a ridiculously high contact resistance forms.
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