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Originally Posted by Faintandfuzzy
Thanks Audio Bill. That is one of the best summaries that answered my question. Much appreciated!
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Audio Bill and Puma Cat have good points. A poor cable (and equally often a poor implementation of the transmitter/receiver circuits and topologies) can let in a lot analog noise that can bypass the digital side and corrupt the downstream analog sections. W9TR has also explained this.
Of note on USB transmission - there are several basic formats. So called 'isochronous' - meaning equal time intervals - is used very often for audio streaming. Unlike formats used for pure data transmission ('bulk' transfer), isochronous cannot report errors and hence has no error correction/re-transmission. So it is possible to have fantastic data transmission but still suffer with real-time transmission.
Fixes to these problems come at various price levels.
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Last edited by clpetersen; 05-03-2019 at 07:48 PM.
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