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RE: 90ohm impedance

The 15% tolerance is part of the standard. This is needed to deal with manufacturing tolerances as well as installation issues. (Bending a cable in a tight radius may create impedance discontinuities.) The tolerance figures into various budgets that ensures that a conforming transmitter connected by a conforming cable to a conforming receiver in a conforming electromagnetic environment will operate correctly.

The transmission of audio data over USB is not what I would call critical real time, unlike the situation with SPDIF and AES/EBU. USB is packet based and there is no relationship between the USB bit clock and the sampling rate clock used by the DAC to time conversion to analog.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar



Edits: 07/21/15

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