Just finished the most recent issue of Hi-Fi News & Record Review, the only Hi-Fi magazine I still read (mainly because they actually do stuff like spectrograms of hi-res recordings). They had a test of the iFi Audio USB iPurifier2, an active USB signal conditioner/buffer. They show eye-pattern diagrams showing it actually affects the signal, but the listening review verdict pretty much admits they couldn't hear a difference- "... it was hard to draw consistent conclusions between 'with' and ' without'". That didn't stop it from gaining the "Editor's Choice" accolade... :)
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