Popular Post vmartell22 Posted February 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2020 The conversation has moved pretty far from the Original Post - some things I wanna say, though 1.- I think the idea of connecting a printer using audiophile data cable is extremely funny - made me chuckle as soon as I saw the picture 2.- Of course the next step in the joke had to be making claims about the quality of the printer! Very funny too 3.- But there is some food for thought - frankly, the claims re: the quality of the printing with the fancy cables sound silly and it is easy to explain why those cables in fact would not make a difference. YET, why is there a full segment of another industry (audio) making those claims regarding what is essentially just the same kind of data? Then you had to talk about the audiophile industry before digital and how it adapted to it - and how it tries to double down on principles from the analogue era by applying them to digital even if they were shaky enough for analogue. v vmartell22 and DuckToller 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post vmartell22 Posted February 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, barrows said: It is not the same kind of data! USB audio is a continuous stream with no error correction. If you send a document to a printer it is error corrected and the data is check summed before printing. USB audio does none of this. Although I do not think that data errors are responsible for differences in sound quality with USB audio. If you would actually like to learn what might be responsible, search this site for John Swenson's thoughts on this, he has done a lot of research and thinking on the topic, and he is a very, very good high speed circuit engineer. Oh sure - Isochronus vs. bulk - etc - right - sure - there is a chance errors affect FIDELITY - sure... maybe. However the joke - and the subjective folklore around fancy digital cables is about ENHANCEMENT. That's what is and why is funny. v DuckToller, daverich4, sandyk and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment
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