PSA - how to directly connect NAA to HQP without bridging in Windows

[Allan F]

On 6/4/2018 at 2:00 PM, Sevenfeet said:

But I've worked for two different well known technology companies over the last two decades.  I've worked intimately on data networks since college.  And I'm pretty comfortable in my earlier thesis.  My point was say, stop spending your valuable time, energy and especially hard earned money (since it's completely moot) and worry about something else.

 

And during your employment in network technology over the last two decades, how often would you listen to the data for its sound quality?

 

Nothing personal but, IMO, all you are doing is repeating the "bits are bits" argument that has been debated ad nauseum on this forum. Based on my own experience, I have to disagree rather strongly with those who insist that all USB cables sound the same, and that investing in better cables is spending money on snake oil.

[Allan F]

On 6/10/2018 at 10:15 AM, Sevenfeet said:

Look, if there were truly data discrepancies in the transport layer of networking or USB that could affect sound like that, then all of the data on your hard drive, SSD and the very website you are reading for now would be completely corrupted...

 

But the transport layer must work, or it doesn't... Don't waste your precious time, energy and especially money on this when there are plenty of legitimate things in our hobby that you can worry about.

 

In your narrowly focused opinion, to which you are of course entitled. I enjoy music and evaluate my system by what I hear, not by instruments or technical dogma. I am not saying that USB cables invariably do not sound the same. Some produce not insignificant audible differences while others do not. I don't know what the technical explanation for these differences may be and, frankly, I don't care if the result is greater enjoyment of the music. I do know from extensive and repeated listening, however, that it is not expectation bias, the term almost always offered by those who share your objectivist views.

 

You do not have to do a very extensive search of CA to find a great many posts in a number of threads by serious members of our audiophile community describing the differences that they hear between various USB cables. They aren't all deluding themselves. 

 

In the final analysis I trust my ears, and I have no worries about wasting either my time or my money in doing so.

[Allan F]

38 minutes ago, Sevenfeet said:

But I draw the line at things I know to be untrue based on my training.

 

And therein lies the problem. It assumes that you know everything there is to know. Hence the quote in my signature that Albert Einstein would share with his students. Bye.

 

[Allan F]

12 minutes ago, Sevenfeet said:

But I'm very comfortable in my knowledge of the past 40 years of data transport technology.

 

And therein lies the problem. The subject is audio and the enjoyment of music. I'm done.