Error correction - chain with both USB and ethernet to a USB DAC

[hsmeets]

Short answer: no.

 

What you send into the Icron at one end emerges at the other (at best). So malformed USB will emerged malformed at the other end. GIGO :-)

 

The Icrons are mediaconverters, basically they take the USB electrical signal, adapt it for sending it longer distance over UTP cables (or optical fiber) and convert it back to USB electrical signal. The Icron's have no clue about what is in the USB data/signal. Basically they convert one type of LVDS to another and back again (LVDS=Low voltage differential signaling) this is changing electrical levels and impedance adjustments for the transmission line (=cable).

 

The Icrons are not protocol converters and are also a peer-to-peer connection, you can't mixed them with your LAN or connect via switch.

 

Why would you still use synchronous USB today for audio as a-synchronous USB audio solved that issue?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hsmeets]

Ah, yes, that particular model can be mixed in your existing LAN via a switch (level 2). These indeed do protocol conversion by sending the USB signal as the payload in an ethernet frame.

 

But still will not correct for errors that are already in the USB data when it is received at the sender.