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In Reply to: RE: Anyone Ever Roll Their Own USB Cable??? Duster posted by SBGK on June 30, 2012 at 13:05:54:
I absolutely have to intervene here before you get carried away.
Go buy a $1.99 USB cable from the nearest bigbox electronics store and be done with it. Stop being ripped off by B.S. There is *never* any need to buy super expensive *digital* cables of any kind.
Digital signalling 101: The data transmitted is either 100% perfect at all times, or it's error-riddled and the application reading that data crashes or throws an error.
This is true for USB, FireWire, HDMI, Ethernet - anything digital. What the cable is made of, the type of wire used, all of that is absolutely positively irrelevant.
Digital signal data uses a protocol at either end. This is how cables get their names. HDMI is not really a type of cable, it's the name of the language being spoken on that cable by the two devices at either end of it. Dittos for USB and all the others. This is also why you see "USB 1.0", USB 2.0 etc - they're variations on the protocol being spoken by the components on either end of that cable.
A core component of every digital protocol is error detection and correction. The devices at both ends of the connection perform this error detection and correction on every byte of data sent or received. It arrives at the receiver device in *perfect* condition, exactly as the sender sent it... or it doesn't and the receiving device immediately tells you about this (usually by popping up an error message)
THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN. It's either PERFECT at all times, or your receiving program crashes and burns because it got bad data.
This is why these protocols, like ethernet, can safely be used in mission critical applications like, oh, sending control data to the computers managing a nuclear reactor. They do this with $2 cables bought in bulk.
It is *not possible* for the quality of the cable to have any affect what-so-ever on the sound you are hearing. About all you get out of high-grade cables is a little more durability so they last longer - but really they're so cheap nobody really cares about that. If it breaks, pop in another $2 cable.
Don't build your own. Don't buy $500 ethernet or USB cables being sold by B.S. artists. Buy cheap, buy in bulk, and buy in confidence that when it comes to *digital* signals the cable is the least of your concerns.
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