16-Jun-2015, 12:48
Did a shoot out about 18months ago with a few friends - audioquest coffee, furutech gt2, vertere d-Fi v2 with Aqvox. The vertere d-Fi v2 with Aqvox was preferred over the more expensive AQ. This was tested on a naim 282, 250, supercap, ndac, 555, with a USB/spdif interface and Powerline all the way. We also tried random printer USB cable, which was just slightly worse than the furutech. The preference was based on musical performance rather than details. Details -wise, weren't all that different. The main differences were random USB cable did hear some noise whereas the others didn't. I didn't remember the other details of the shoot out, but the group concluded the Vertere was preferred only with the Aqvox which we inferred the treating of the USB cable's powered 5v pin is quite important. Not sure how this observation is still true with so many new developments in USB cables. Looking forward to learning more as I will need a USB cable when dialog finally works with "Le expert"
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