In the early days usb was significantly worse than other digital connections, but that issue was solved years ago. It was mainly due to the asynchronous nature of usb due to the fact that usb sends data in packets. Most DACs now reclining it. My Bryston DAC3 sounds equally great with every input
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In my younger days, I was told so often that spdif was better than usb that it became doctrine. I'm in the market for a 2k$ish streamer and I see many higher end streamers with usb outputs that pass far higher res data than the spdif 192/24 does. My DAC takes either, but not i2s. Are the new implementations of usb now better than spdif?
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@mclinnguy OK Will do. And while I'm at it I'll ask about this, too: "At each end of the cable you can see a pair of “speaker kegs”. These are similar to the kegs we use on our powercords. However they are quite different – the power cords kegs are designed to pass 50/60Hz but the speaker kegs must pass the whole audio band. So these kegs are reformulated and tuned to this application." Kegs are a slang term for ferrite beads, often found used legitimately for damping RF on power cables. No problem, That has a measurable impact as a low pass filter. And they are inexpensive - You can get an 80pc assortment on Amazon for $20.99. So, lots of opportunity to reformulate and tune for the price of a pizza. But they are a low pass filter, so they have other measurable impacts when used on signal cables, like hysteresis and latency, as well as limiting bandwidth. All immaterial on power cables, not so immaterial when dealing with signals. |
@mclinnguy Thank you for the Laugh of the Day. Although I'm sure there are many here who don't get the joke. 🙄 |
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