Diamond USB has a relaxed quality that fosters deep musical involvement.
It's a parody.
It's a parody.
> The overall result is an extremely musical, vinyl like sound, even from CD resolutions. You don’t know what you are missing until you audition the Orion.
This is a "review" for a $5000m/m cable for digital (AES or SPDIF) interconnect.
"The difference is that cables are forever. They get better with age while components will always need to be replaced do to wear or upgraded because of improvements in technology."
...unless of course they only buy direct to disc vinyl analogue recordings, or 96KHz sampled 24bit digital ones!
PS: One of my retirement ideas is to knock up monoblock 'boozehound' amplifier based on 6j5/6v6 and locally wound 'special' output transformers...
Surely you mean 192KHz!
No, really: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Oh, and shielding. You never get shielding on cheap cables. Doesn't matter for USB, but I've never appreciated my stereo or headphones picking up an incoming call to my cell.
But I've bought a large quantity of cables (USB, TOSlink optical, ethernet, HDMI, etc, etc) both from Monoprice and Amazon (the "AmazonBasics" ones) and all of them worked perfectly, had sufficient shielding when warranted, didn't fall apart, etc. I've literally never had a single problem with any of these much cheaper cables.
I don't buy $15 USB cables anymore precisely because of AmazonBasics, but in general I mean, don't feel bad for spending more than $0.50 on a cable.
The difference in the cables, of course, being the quality of the construction on the plugs.