What I would like to see with things like USB cables is a bit more rigorous testing. Blind testing, tests regarding the ability to eliminate RFI / EMI, this kind of thing. Even taking the EMI stuff into consideration, there appears to be very little information as to how EMI interacts with the DAC, or if it is simpler just to accept the EMI and filter it out at the end. How are DAC's influenced by noise, what kind of noise matters, does the USB eye pattern influence sound quality? I think all of this could be rigorously tested, but I cannot recall reading anything genuinely conclusive on the subject.
So I fear that until the world offers some decent hard data, we will continue to have cable debates, lots of claims each way, but nothing conclusive.
And then when you think you have seen it all, this arrives. A USB cable with fully configurable shielding. This is based on the "JSSG". This is John Swenson's idea that shielding generates a current from EMI, so you need a cable to connect each end of the shielding to create a Faraday cage effect around the cable, this can then be extended into two layers of shielding, and so on. But a USB cable with configurable shielding? What next?
https://stordiau.com/collections/cables-...udio-cable
https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forum...ent-863307
I do wonder just how far this kind of thing can go in the absence of real hard data, further than I could ever imagine probably.
And a note to @Pim - Forget the fizzy Fiat stuff, try some spring water delivered by unicorns.
So I fear that until the world offers some decent hard data, we will continue to have cable debates, lots of claims each way, but nothing conclusive.
And then when you think you have seen it all, this arrives. A USB cable with fully configurable shielding. This is based on the "JSSG". This is John Swenson's idea that shielding generates a current from EMI, so you need a cable to connect each end of the shielding to create a Faraday cage effect around the cable, this can then be extended into two layers of shielding, and so on. But a USB cable with configurable shielding? What next?
https://stordiau.com/collections/cables-...udio-cable
https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forum...ent-863307
I do wonder just how far this kind of thing can go in the absence of real hard data, further than I could ever imagine probably.
And a note to @Pim - Forget the fizzy Fiat stuff, try some spring water delivered by unicorns.
1000 Pro - KEF Blade - iFi Zen Stream - Mutec REF10 - MC3+USB - Pro-Ject Signature 12
