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In Reply to: RE: Cable Connected USBs not good for audio posted by audioengr on January 31, 2015 at 09:29:00:
"Computer designers are typically only interested in making something that barely works reliably and at the cheapest cost."
If it works reliably then there is no reason for a commercial computer to have additional signal quality. That would have no market benefit for the company. If someone wants to buy computer hardwware that is engineered to higher standards they should go to vendors of specialized machines, such as some of the companies that market to audiophiles.
The problem is expecting to get good sound out of cheap off the shelf computers, without accepting that the noise they create will have to be stripped off so that it doesn't make it to the analog portions of a DAC. You will have to spend your money somewhere, some combination of source, connection (possibly a reclocker) or DAC input circuitry. There is not going to be a free lunch.
I am not convinced that the sound quality differences between the front and back ports are related to the internal cabling. It is at least equally likely that these represent a different USB hub and possibly a different DMA controller, as Mercman suggested.
The hub attachment issue can be easily verified with the Device Manager.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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- RE: Cable Connected USBs not good for audio - Tony Lauck 01/31/1513:22:36 01/31/15 (1)
- RE: Cable Connected USBs not good for audio - audioengr 19:27:48 01/31/15 (0)
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