AUDIOPHILE USB CABLES COMPARISON

Without a doubt, connecting a computer to a quality DAC can give excellent results, but does it really matter what kind of USB cable you use?

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[mrpmj]

Yes if your system is resolving enough.

I love my Cardas Clear USB with Apple Music lossless to my Eversolo DMP-A6 to Denafrips Iris 12th (ddc)

[oysteinsoreide]

The DACs resistance to jitter and noise through the USB port is also important. Some DAC makes use galvanically isolated USB ports.

[aussie]

I’m using an 8 metre long Supra USB and it sounds fantastic, and no technical issues even over that length.

[marklaurint]

Question on the video footage. Why is the Technics turntable a mirrored imaged in your talking video portion vs. the panning image of the TT near the beginning of the video?

[luisandrevicente]

Now you have the Curious Evolved, and is better than the original Curious. The improvement is notorious.

[GodfreyMann]

Just bought the Supra USB 2.0 based on this video...made a huge difference! Dank u wel!

[beergutzplatoon]

It matters u have to hear it, sometimes it a big difference sometimes better sometimes worse price doesn't matter its all about matching dac amp and headphones or speakers

[johnkom]

Good. I've heard others also praise the Supra. I own Audioquest Diamond interconnects for many years, excellent. But the AQ usb cable is a bit pricey. I probably will try out the Evolved.

[JMAudioEditions]

I just got the Topping D90 and all I can say with stock usb wire it is dead silent no sound whatsoever to my PASS headphone amp. My previous TEAC DAC had wonderful warm sound from the two Burr Brown DACS but it was never this silent. I know the Topping D90 doesnt use the power part of the USB which makes it much quieter than DACS that do use the power part of USB wire- BUT I do plan on rolling some USB to try it out- but I feel Wireworld and Audioquest among others may make a difference.... I know I had the pleasure of using the Stealth Audio Cables Varidig wire in my system and it was night and day but that was coax 75ohm and was nearly $800+ for the 2 meters- it was giving to me by a friend who bought even more crazy expensive wire from Stealth. Does wire make a difference -yes- if your speakers are of the highest price like his (Perfect 8s) you hear sh^t loads of differences when ever you play with wire, equipment treatments etc. It all depends how much can you spend and how much is enough is enough? For me I can't afford that stuff- but I can hear the differences... wish it weren't true- I would have saved a ton by just buying what ever plays music. Actually I just updated this and right now I chose the KIMBER Kable USB and it sounds best under $100 to me - it's all copper and bested all other USBs I tried under $100- thats my limit with USB wire- it matches perfect with D90 and A90 and PASS AMP- I easily hear difference - Kimber is best for me.

[masudkabir]

Bought the Supra base on this review, I am very happy with performance. Excellent.

[matusjurcik]

its interesting that those cables makes difference also in the pracier dac...

[theaudiophilebarista]

Nice. I use Oyaide and Wireworld USB cables on my Chromebox and my PC but none of my ‘serious’ listening involves USB connections.
- And by the way, the Shelby Cobra is the most fun 😜

[ahmedalshaiba]

I have the D90SE dac with the A90 amp, listening to DSD audio files coming from iMac computer on the JRiver software.
I was using the stock cable, today I tried the Audioquest Carbon, and immediately noticed the stagesound improvement, which made me a believer, never expected the USB cable to have an impact on the sound.
I'm now thinking about getting the diamond.
So my question, is my gear good enough for the upgrade? And also is there any device that I should add between my computer and the dac?

[ThePalle]

Went from Supra Babyblue to Supra Excalibur huge difference in my system 👍

[mak]

A quick question, is the noise of the PC motherboard not way bigger than the noise on the USB cables?
The USB controller that's is used. is likely on board the CPU And needs to run beside the pci lanes, ram, gpu etc.

[mikea]

Hi what abt in my car plugging into my ipod sir

[ptp]

Was burn-in factored into your findings of these cables?

[andrewwardle-buyx]

i have a large full size tower which i plug into a RME ADI 2 DAC,
i just use a resonable quality usb cable, i have tried a high priced
usb lead and i coud not tell any difference, this is a £1000 dac
and focal clear headphones, i only use a 0.7m cable,
what i have noticed is i have a lot of usb ports on the front and back
of pc and all the rear ports ( 8 of them ) all gave me noise,
but the front which are a long way from the mother board and
sound is perfect, only thing i thought about is a pci card which
are sold for low noise and some have seperate power supply as
think thats were the noise comes from the power ....
its worth trying all your ports as there is a difference,
some of mine arre usb 2, some are usb 3, some are 3.2 ?
800 dollar for a usb cable, sounds like 10 dollar cable and
790 profit ...
to me i feel money would be better spent on say better dac, phones
or something you know you are going to get a marked improvement ..
i know as a rule they say spend 10 percent of you system on cables,
but data cables i am a bit sceptical on ...
and with a lot of things like that, if you tell someone this is an expensive
wine they will normally like it better, you know what i mean ...

[TheVictoire]

Volgens mij hoor ik een Nederlands accent ;-) When using Roon with a Synology NAS where the Roon Core resides the Supra cable is a very good upgrade compared to the printer cable? I have hooked it up to a Technics SU-G700 with internal DAC with battery clock etc. I already find it's fantastic sounding but I should definitely try it?

[TheWorldTeacher]

Beautiful timbers? Like oak and mahogany?