Worst I am poor and can't afford a $3500 USB cable thread ever.

right i'm off down the pound shop to buy some usb cables tommorow, then i'll come up with some new exotic braid, maybe a virgins pubic hair and carbon fibre? slap some shiny connectors on and price mine at twice the ones in the OP. employ britboy to market them after his masterful performance on dragons den and then make my first million by friday

anyone see a problem with that plan? :)
 
Cables are the biggest lie in high-end audio, from the prices to the whole 10% lie. It's offensive with analogue stuff, let alone digital (and power cables). You'll notice they avoid saying anything that could be used against them as evidence of fraud.

I appreciate the desire to buy aesthetically pleasing cables in some instances, but it's just plain robbery past a certain point. Speakers, well, something like the Focal Grande Utopia EM's ($180,000) I can understand the cost - price no object R&D speakers that people actually started asking to buy, not meant for anyone but for those with unlimited pockets and an interest in the absolute cutting edge of audio reproduction - I can understand that, but cables, gah, winds me up.

I'm not sure what's more depressing either; the supplication by hifi magazines to make out that cables, hifi racks for digital set ups, cable risers etc actually make a difference, or the people that read it and believe it.
 
EVH said:
Srsly?

USB is digital. The signal is sent in the form of 1s and 0s and rebuilt using error correction at the source.

Providing there aren't massive errors in the transmitted signal (that overstep quantisation / error correction) then it gets rebuilt on the other side EXACTLY as it was sent.

Shielding helps over long distance, but it's minimal in preventing errors, and laughable to make out its essential for anything less than 15-20M. The way the seller makes out, any attempt to use any other USB cable is bad, is just delusional.

In fact, it reminds me of a time someone told me about some directional copper speaker cable. He was ranting and raving about this stuff.. Insisting it had to go a certain way or the sound would be distorted.. Until I asked "how can it directional? It's a piece of 24 gauge solid copper wire!?"

He just rolled his eyes and carried on in the belief I was talking arse. Perhaps he didn't like it when I then asked how he knew if the kettle or toaster were wired up using directional copper wiring, or perhaps he was so brainwashed by the likes of what hi fi, he stopped listening to reason.

Live and let live. It's their money to burn.. Just LOL at those stupid enough to eat the crap.
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This is not what i was saying at all. If you have a studio with microphones and other sensitive equipment, you want to minimize interference from other sources, such as usb cables. This is what i was getting at and i'm sorry for your wasted post.
 
Uhtred said:
This is not what i was saying at all. If you have a studio with microphones and other sensitive equipment, you want to minimize interference from other sources, such as usb cables. This is what i was getting at and i'm sorry for your wasted post.
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lol :)
 
Somnambulist said:
Cables are the biggest lie in high-end audio, from the prices to the whole 10% lie. It's offensive with analogue stuff, let alone digital (and power cables). You'll notice they avoid saying anything that could be used against them as evidence of fraud.

I appreciate the desire to buy aesthetically pleasing cables in some instances, but it's just plain robbery past a certain point. Speakers, well, something like the Focal Grande Utopia EM's ($180,000) I can understand the cost - price no object R&D speakers that people actually started asking to buy, not meant for anyone but for those with unlimited pockets and an interest in the absolute cutting edge of audio reproduction - I can understand that, but cables, gah, winds me up.

I'm not sure what's more depressing either; the supplication by hifi magazines to make out that cables, hifi racks for digital set ups, cable risers etc actually make a difference, or the people that read it and believe it.
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All of this crap actually brings me to tears, of laughter of course. The people who came up with this crap are laughing all the way to the bank. Cable risers have to be the funniest out of the lot. I find the cable quality arguments to be ridiculous and the crazy examples they use of hearing or seeing a difference (in the case of HDMI cables) but cable risers? The person who came up with that deserves some sort of award. The offices of these companies are probably constantly filled with laughter with each order they get causing them to roll around the floor in agony because of how hard they are laughing at the mugs actually giving them money for that crap.
 
Uhtred said:
This is not what i was saying at all. If you have a studio with microphones and other sensitive equipment, you want to minimize interference from other sources, such as usb cables. This is what i was getting at and i'm sorry for your wasted post.
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Sensitive in what regard? For the most part it'll all be digital equipment anyway, computers, software and digital interfaces with analogue audio inputs. Cables like this are just a complete and utter scam and the only people who buy them are fools with a loose grip on their money. Anyone in the audio industry knows that they are bull, whether they acknowledge it or not. The people trying to sell you that expensive "shielded high quality" HDMI cable with your new TV know full well that they're selling you a lie, the magazines that review these cables and claim different HDMI cables offer different levels of colour saturation and contrast are selling you a lie, they're being paid to advertise them rather than review them and it's done like this because the companies themselves can't make those sort of claims without getting in to trouble for false advertising, fraudulent claims and a load of other things.
 
Uhtred said:
isn't this for use with professional recording equipment which is sensitive to interference? Not justifying it but that that might be what it's aimed at...
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No

If real - it is aimed at chumps - has been going on for decades and unbelievably companies are getting away with it still with digital... when it should be blatantly obvious (if it wasn't previously) that rip off cables are a rip off.

I did assume that website in the OP was/is a parody - though worryingly they appear to have some distributors listed.
 
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