(New here, first post. Be gentle )
(about 6:30 in)
The host of the YT channel “The Vinyl Attack!” recently accepted Danny Ritchie’s challenge to visit him and hear his listening room and learn. Apparently, the host’s first “cable makes a difference” experience in this visit was based upon the direction that a FireWire cable was plugged in.
I instantly mumbled “BS” to myself, but in the spirit of the video (to at least try to keep an open mind), I decided to search around a bit. However, I can’t find anything other than connector design that would suggest “directionality” in FireWire. Maybe I’m missing something. Is it a power thing, as elliptically alluded to in the video? There is mention of an “open” end and a “closed” end, and that ever-tricky “noise” phenomenon raising its head if the cable is the wrong way around. I found no mention of the open/closed concept. Maybe I didn’t search well enough.
There is more about measurements vs. the amazing human ear, but I’ll let folks watch the vid.
The host of the YT channel “The Vinyl Attack!” recently accepted Danny Ritchie’s challenge to visit him and hear his listening room and learn. Apparently, the host’s first “cable makes a difference” experience in this visit was based upon the direction that a FireWire cable was plugged in.
I instantly mumbled “BS” to myself, but in the spirit of the video (to at least try to keep an open mind), I decided to search around a bit. However, I can’t find anything other than connector design that would suggest “directionality” in FireWire. Maybe I’m missing something. Is it a power thing, as elliptically alluded to in the video? There is mention of an “open” end and a “closed” end, and that ever-tricky “noise” phenomenon raising its head if the cable is the wrong way around. I found no mention of the open/closed concept. Maybe I didn’t search well enough.
There is more about measurements vs. the amazing human ear, but I’ll let folks watch the vid.