ribonucleic
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(I’ve seen conflicting advice on this.)
Scenario: My listening spot is one one side of the room and I’m playing music files from a laptop through a USB-B cable into a DAC/preamp that feeds XLR output to a pair of active monitors on the other side of the room about 10 feet away.
I can either keep the DAC close to me at the expense of having a 30-40 foot XLR cable run around the edges of the room or I can keep the DAC close to the speakers at the expense of having to use a 5 meter maximum length USB cable and having to operate the DAC by remote.
Longer XLR cables being more expensive than a longer USB cable can be disregarded. The question is primarily about sound quality.
Scenario: My listening spot is one one side of the room and I’m playing music files from a laptop through a USB-B cable into a DAC/preamp that feeds XLR output to a pair of active monitors on the other side of the room about 10 feet away.
I can either keep the DAC close to me at the expense of having a 30-40 foot XLR cable run around the edges of the room or I can keep the DAC close to the speakers at the expense of having to use a 5 meter maximum length USB cable and having to operate the DAC by remote.
Longer XLR cables being more expensive than a longer USB cable can be disregarded. The question is primarily about sound quality.