A Collection of USB Audio Enhancement Products
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| Posted on July 22, 2014 at 08:19:36 | ||
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A number of inmates have been e-mailing me about when this review will be ready. Here it is: fmak, time for you to chime in with your extensive experience with some of these products.
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| RE: A Collection of USB Audio Enhancement Products, posted on July 22, 2014 at 23:38:36 | |
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"They do help poor ones" That's the main intention of such a filter. A filter always introduces losses on its own. Too much filtering is never been a good idea. Chaining up filters usually makes things worse. That's why such a filter works for some people, for some it doesn't make any difference and for others it makes things worse. It's that simple. The nice thing about having a "poor one" is that a 99$ device can easily lift the device one or two classes up. Audiophile brands just charge you several 100s extra for doing a little internal filtering by applying 5$ in parts. ----------------------------------------------------------------- blog latest >> The Audio Streaming Series - tuning kit pCP
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| RE: A Collection of USB Audio Enhancement Products, posted on July 22, 2014 at 23:52:25 | |
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I think you miss the basics in the article. That's why it is pretty much useless. Efficiency of such filters and cables "heavily" depends on the associated equipment. There are DACs with heavy filtering, signal refresh or even galvanic isolation and others with less. There are PCs with better others with worse USB ports. There are DACs which need the 5V line others won't. There are cables with filters included others without. On devices and setups with heavy filtering already in place things might get worse. On devices with less filtering things might get better. Basically to make sense out of all of this, you can't avoid to try such a device yourself. Cheers ----------------------------------------------------------------- blog latest >> The Audio Streaming Series - tuning kit pCP
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| RE: A Collection of USB Audio Enhancement Products, posted on July 23, 2014 at 03:39:43 | |
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Thanks Dave.
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