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Help needed with cable lengths

Researching back a couple years, the consensus seemed to favor the shortest possible USB cable and a surprisingly long minimum length for S/PDIF coax, around a couple meters. That's how it's set up now in my system and it sounds pretty darn good.

Is it still generally held that long USB cables are undesirable and should be kept just long enough to get your device away from the EMI coming out of the PC?

The reason for asking is that I'm considering trying a new XMOS-based box to perform the USB to S/PDIF DDC-ing, and am choosing how to cable it and where to locate it.

TIA!


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Topic - Help needed with cable lengths - mr.bear 14:47:15 03/24/17 (41)
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