In Reply to: Help needed with cable lengths posted by mr.bear on March 24, 2017 at 14:47:15:
My advice is not to listen to anyone else, but to listen for yourself to different cables, if the issue is of concern. It is not that hard to try stuff. Then, you can embrace your own beliefs based on what you, not someone else, claims to have heard.None of the manufacturer, reviewer, or audiophile forum denizen claims are based on science or on bias-controlled listening. So, it comes down to a matter of belief and what your own ears tell you. It also may be system dependent, so there are no universal, hard/fast rules you can rely on based what other "gurus" give you, as Moses did with the tablets on Mt. Sinai.
Me. I hear no advantage or disadvantage to short USB cables, and I use a 15 footer, myself, though nothing exotic. I also abandoned my Regen awhile ago. And, specific "optimum" lengths for USB, coax, etc. are just whatever you wish to believe.
Edits: 03/25/17
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- RE: Help needed with cable lengths - Fitzcaraldo215 14:50:53 03/25/17 (23)
- Excellent Advice - AbeCollins 13:47:50 03/26/17 (1)
- Touché (nt) - Duster 16:36:42 03/26/17 (0)
- Absurd Advice - Duster 10:00:49 03/26/17 (6)
- RE: Absurd Advice - fmak 12:14:43 03/26/17 (1)
- RE: Absurd Advice - Duster 12:55:56 03/26/17 (0)
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- RE: Absurd Advice - ahendler 10:26:56 03/26/17 (2)
- RE: Absurd Advice - Duster 10:40:04 03/26/17 (1)
- RE: Absurd Advice - ahendler 12:47:45 03/26/17 (0)
- So Basically You Stopped Believing - Dynobot 07:35:06 03/26/17 (10)
- RE: So Basically You Stopped Believing - fmak 09:08:51 03/26/17 (9)
- RE: So Basically You Stopped Believing - Dynobot 09:29:38 03/26/17 (8)
- I agree.....................and - Cut-Throat 12:11:50 03/26/17 (7)
- Thinking outside the box... - Duster 13:32:47 03/26/17 (6)
- RE: Thinking outside the box... - fmak 22:15:45 03/26/17 (0)
- RE: Thinking outside the box... - Cut-Throat 13:54:40 03/26/17 (4)
- Cable Selection Criteria - Dynobot 15:14:57 03/26/17 (2)
- RE: Cable Selection Criteria - AbeCollins 12:30:34 03/27/17 (1)
- RE: Cable Selection Criteria - Dynobot 18:45:31 03/27/17 (0)
- Not my intent (nt) - Duster 14:05:12 03/26/17 (0)
- Good advice... - John Elison 21:01:40 03/25/17 (2)
- Got it... - mr.bear 11:42:38 03/26/17 (1)
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