I used to think USB cables did not matter. I can't remember the brands but I tried a few including "High Speed" etc.... To make a long story short, I went back to the best sounding one, a very thick well shielded cable that came with a printer for my office 10 years ago. It sounds simply wonderful and I have no idea what it is. The moral of this story is that every cable matters. I could hear the difference even when wanting the new cables to sound good. If your system is resolving, and you listen well, you will figure out what you like.
A long harsh digital trip - final meter?
So the digital signal manages to find its way to a utility pole in front of your house. Then enjoys a coaxial sprint to a modem, and then head over to a modem, router and then into a Roon nucleus. Up to this point, a rugged unprotected harsh trip. And now this signal flows along a very refined ubs cable and arrives at a dac for final prep work before reaching a high end system.
So why does the final leg of the signal’s journey inside a usb cable seem to matter so much toward improving sound quality? What happens here to revive a digital signal that has traveled hundreds of disgusting dirty miles to reach the analogue chamber of rebirth? So I guess it’s possible to truly transform and correct a digital signal during a very short journey thru a usb cable?
So why does the final leg of the signal’s journey inside a usb cable seem to matter so much toward improving sound quality? What happens here to revive a digital signal that has traveled hundreds of disgusting dirty miles to reach the analogue chamber of rebirth? So I guess it’s possible to truly transform and correct a digital signal during a very short journey thru a usb cable?