Someone please explain this

[ODD_MAN_IV]

How can a USB-B cable cost this amount of money, and is it worth it?

 

https://www.minidisc.com.au/audioquest-diamond-usb-b-cable?gclid=CjwKCAjwqdn1BRBREiwAEbZcR9TOjRJgC4hDoO1XbQisPgSVHcxbTeIJyt_gsyDgxXkq3MCGGsY_bBoC9FsQAvD_BwE

 

[Massyyy]

i dont understand why this exists, its like the ethernet gpu thing linus reviewed, like whats the point lmao, its probs using some "rare" material to do data transfer or whatever

[Spotty]

Q. Why does this product cost so much?

A. It has "Audio" in the product description.

 

Q. Is it worth it?

A. No

[BinaryShadow]

snake oil

[Kilrah]

Just made to extract money from people who believe BS claims and snake oil, apparently there are quite a few of those... 

[ODD_MAN_IV]

Just found out for a 5m cable you're looking at $2,230.01. A little steep if you ask me.

[Curious Pineapple]

Shit from a bull is all I can say to the cable

[LogicalDrm]

3 hours ago, Massyyy said:

i dont understand why this exists, its like the ethernet gpu thing linus reviewed, like whats the point lmao, its probs using some "rare" material to do data transfer or whatever

 

The highest end audio gear is something similar to highest end of video gear. If you don't know anything about it, the cost isn't worth it for you. But if you have trained eye/ear, things become very different. I know person who is into highest end audio gear. Actually they go for midrange of that, but still can easily pay €100 for power cable for amp.

 

The diamond part is just styling of it, as they have same in "carbon" style also.

 

3 hours ago, BinaryShadow said:

snake oil

3 hours ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Shit from a bull is all I can say to the cable

 

I guess you guys have personal experience from this then? Because you calling something bullshit without any personal experience, or reading professional reviews, is as much of bullshit statement.

 

https://www.hifiplus.com/articles/first-listen-audioquest-diamond-usb-cable/

[Volbet]

7 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

I guess you guys have personal experience from this then? Because you calling something bullshit without any personal experience, or reading professional reviews, is as much of bullshit statement.

 

https://www.hifiplus.com/articles/first-listen-audioquest-diamond-usb-cable/

While I would agree with you in principle, there's a bit more nuance to this.

If a product fails on a theoretical level, then I would say that you can call bulshit on it without any prior knowledge about the product. 

 

If I sold a coffee mug with a hole in the bottom, then you wouldn't need to pour the coffee in to know the product was faulty from its conception, 

 

The same with audio cables, especially digital ones. The integrity of digital signals is much less important than with analog signals, so when you're in the digital part of the signal chain, then the quality of cables play much less of a role. 

As long as your cable follows the USB standard, then there's little to nothing that can get lost between your source and your DAC. If data loss in an asynchronous environment was that detrimental to sound quality, tnen it seems like a much more streamlined and foolproof solution to build the synchronous spec into the receiving unites. Something which isn't commonly done. 

 

To AudioQuest's credit, they do do something electrical to the signal. But I would honestly be more scared about that creating issues with the connected devices. 

[Curious Pineapple]

7 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

 

The highest end audio gear is something similar to highest end of video gear. If you don't know anything about it, the cost isn't worth it for you. But if you have trained eye/ear, things become very different. I know person who is into highest end audio gear. Actually they go for midrange of that, but still can easily pay €100 for power cable for amp.

 

The diamond part is just styling of it, as they have same in "carbon" style also.

 

 

I guess you guys have personal experience from this then? Because you calling something bullshit without any personal experience, or reading professional reviews, is as much of bullshit statement.

 

https://www.hifiplus.com/articles/first-listen-audioquest-diamond-usb-cable/

Claiming to prevent EMI geting into the groundplane using a shield that is connected directly to the groundplane is utter crap. All that EMI goes straight into the groundplane, that's how shielding works.

 

These are digital signals, not analogue ones. If there's any "distortion" and corrupted packets, it's discarded and retransmitted. Too much packet loss and yes, there will be issues, but that's not going to happen on a short run with a quality USB cable.

 

If you spend a grand on a USB cable, you will notice the "difference", just as people who fit electric leafblower "turbos" to cars swear it makes it quicker. Instead of regurgitating the manufacturers claims, that reviewer should have done some actual tests and shown clear differences between a normal USB cable, and that one. Feeding audio into an ADC and showing differences between several cables by looking at the audio received at the computer. IWould you trust a review on some magical RAM without a single graph to show performance differences?

 

I think this cable is marketed towards people who spend £900 on wheels and buy monitors that require hundreds in stands and adaptors just to be able to use it

[Slayerking92]

Just for the same idiots that would buy this.