Does USB cable quality matter?

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Re: Does USB cable quality matter?

Post by The_BPP »

ef37a wrote:Audio via USB is different as I understand things? Even a quite low end AI might call upon almost all the bandwidth of the system, however briefly and if said system cannot deliver..Crash.

That's the thrust of this thread. The cable will either deliver or not, there will not be the slight loss of quality one associates with cheap analogue cables.
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Re: Does USB cable quality matter?

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The_Big_Piano_Player wrote: I have an expensive USB memory stick. The quality of the stored Word documents is far greater than when I held them on a cheap memory stick. Bigger words, nicer font. After all, you get what you pay for. ;)

I'm using this one on the shop floor. :D
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