Many of my fellow forum members may often wonder I almost never miss a chance to say nasty things about the sad state of the high end audio press and the clowns who edit and write from this useless industry. Well here is a fine and typical example of the complete and utter nonsense that these clowns spew out in the guise of useful information. The following is just the the first two paragraphs from a review of the AudioQuest Diamond USB Cable by Robert Harley, the senior editor of The Absolute Sound. the price for this cable is $549 (1m); $695 (1.5m) - I am not joking! The first sentence is total nonsense and it goes downhill from there. The fact that the high end community is embracing USB just reflects the fact so many of them are using Apple computers as their music servers/streamers and has nothing to do with the functionality and quality of the S/PDIF interface.
> The replacement of the S/PDIF interface by USB as the de facto standard > for transmitting digital audio has been surprisingly rapid. Even more > surprising is how variable in sound quality USB can be. No two > implementations of the USB interface sound the same, with a huge > performance gap between the best and the worst. The good news is that > some talented high-end designers are addressing the problem, raising the > bar in USB performance. The very best implementations are now very good > indeed. > > All of these observations about USB also apply to USB cables. There are, > in fact, larger sound quality differences between USB cables than > between S/PDIF or AES/EBU cables. Generic USB cables designed for > connecting computer peripherals are so bad that even a $29 > designed-for-audio USB cable offers a huge leap in performance. The remainder of this laugh fest can be found in this pdf: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/buyers_guides/16/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email-48 Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97489 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
