In Reply to: completely in line with my journey posted by hfavandepas on August 30, 2011 at 16:52:14:
in so much the cables than the formats. I noticed many are using cheap generic usb cables and dissing the sound blaming it on the usb format.
I also haven't seen that many Firewire implementations on the higher end dacs, always usb.
My Esoteric D-07 sounds wonderful from both Spdif and USB. I'm using Ortofon Coaxial and USB cables.
Get the best USB cable you can afford , try to compare to those out of budget and then judge the format :-) USB cables, like any other cables, follow the same rules of synergy and sonic signature. Decent sounding USB cables start from $100 to $1200 !!
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Follow Ups
- The problem lies... - Audio Pharaoh 19:49:20 08/30/11 (5)
- So one need too spend $ 100,- too $ 1.200 on a USB-cable too make an USB DAC sound good? - hfavandepas 03:53:30 08/31/11 (4)
- Thanks for the input.. - Audio Pharaoh 07:42:11 08/31/11 (3)
- I completely agree on the Benchmark. - hfavandepas 10:05:46 08/31/11 (2)
- Probably true - AbeCollins 10:51:41 09/03/11 (1)
- RE: Probably true - Audio Pharaoh 04:26:45 09/05/11 (0)