Comments on Profile Post by Stuff Jones

  1. rlow
    rlow
    When it starts to have dropouts and communication/connection issues. Otherwise if it’s stable it will always be better than BT (current standards) which is compressed and lossy.
    Mar 30, 2021
  2. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    5 meters for standard USB cable.
    Mar 30, 2021
  3. Taverius
    Taverius
    As pointed out, USB audio is always bit-perfect.

    When it's not, the sound stops playing - or in very very ancient early USB devices, it might squeal and pop.

    Device power might become an issue before then, that's dependent entirely on the power design of the USB-powered side, if any.
    Mar 30, 2021
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  4. Stuff Jones
    Stuff Jones
    I went down a USB SQ rabbit hole and I thought I learned that the one agreement on USB SQ was that shorter is better (finally!). Not true?
    Mar 30, 2021
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  5. dubharmonic
    dubharmonic
    Shorter means a lower probability for interference, right?
    Mar 30, 2021
  6. Taverius
    Taverius
    They're not amazingly shielded and the power and signal cables are snuggling up real close, so the power gets dirtier the longer the cable even before you add other nearby cables.

    The audio signal doesn't degrade like analog though, since it's a digital packet with built-in error correction - when that fails the packet is invalid and gets dropped. It either works or it doesn't.
    Mar 30, 2021
  7. Taverius
    Taverius
    Provided the cables is short enough the packet gets there in good shape - per spec as AtomicBob says this is 5m though more is possible in theory - you could provide clean power with a split cable and an ifi Ipower or lps, but at that point just use a Pi.
    Mar 30, 2021