USB Cable Length Test
Have you ever wondered what are the effects of your USB cable length on sonics ? Let's find out. I assembled three audiophile USB cables in different lengths. 1. Curious Cable (1.2m and 0.2m) 2. Wireworld Platinum Starlight Series 6 (2m and 5m) 3. Blackcat Cable Indigo Prototype (1m and 0.5m) Since my Melco NAS is placed a distance away from my DAC, I tested the Curious Cable and Blackcat Cable Indigo Prototype by hooking up my Melco NAS via a 2m WIreworld Platinum Starlight Series 2m cable to a SOtM tx-USBultra USB hub / regenerator, and then the cable in question to my Totaldac DAC. For the Wireworld, both cables were long enough to reach my DAC, and I ran the cables directly from the NAS to DAC (the Melco has a USB port). Listening to the various cables on test, it was hard to believe that length had such a great effect - not quite the results I was expecting. In the case of the Curious Cable, the 0.2m cable had drier and smaller images, while the 1.2m had a fuller sound with th