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Simon Connell July 15th 03 08:06 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.
Cost £150, asking £50 posted anywhere in the world.
Simon

Dave Plowman July 15th 03 10:47 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
In article ,
Simon Connell wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.


Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.

Cost £150, asking £50 posted anywhere in the world.


You've found this too, then?

--
*Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Jim H July 16th 03 04:03 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:47:12 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

In article ,
Simon Connell wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.


Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.


Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what is
cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough for
more than 600 cd streams.

--
Jim H

Glenn Booth July 16th 03 06:16 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
Hi,

In message , Jim H
writes
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:47:12 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

In article ,
Simon Connell wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.


Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.


Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Right idea, but you're mixing bits and bytes.


--
Glenn Booth

Dave Plowman July 16th 03 06:38 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
In article ,
Jim H wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.


Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.


Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Yup. But you've got to understand the thinking. It's conceivable that
really poor (high capacitance) or extra long interconnects can make a
difference to an analogue signal - especially if high impedance valve
equipment is used.

So for those who don't *want* to understand any theory, *all*
interconnects can make a difference. That the signal is digital makes no
difference to this thinking at all.

--
*If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Jim H July 16th 03 07:14 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:16:54 +0100, Glenn Booth
wrote:

Hi,

In message , Jim H
writes
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:47:12 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

In article ,
Simon Connell wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.

Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.


Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Right idea, but you're mixing bits and bytes.


Oops. Never can get used to network engineers measuring everything in bits.
Anyway, I forget which is b/B so you can get either 600/8 or 600*8 cd
streams down cat5, both of which are contsiderably more than what you're
likely to actually need, 1

--
Jim

Jim H July 16th 03 07:21 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:38:28 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

In article ,
Jim H wrote:
1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable.

Just about any cable ever made would carry digits over that distance.


Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Yup. But you've got to understand the thinking. It's conceivable that
really poor (high capacitance) or extra long interconnects can make a
difference to an analogue signal - especially if high impedance valve
equipment is used.

So for those who don't *want* to understand any theory, *all*
interconnects can make a difference. That the signal is digital makes no
difference to this thinking at all.


My favourite bit is when WhatHifi etc claim a CD transport to be "working
very hard". Yeah, right, that's why a £15 pc cd rom drive can read with
*ZERO* error at 30-50 times that speed!

--
Jim H

Chesney Christ July 16th 03 10:23 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
A certain Jim H, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Y'all got that right. This is snake-oil at it's finest.

--

"Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com


Andrew Walkingshaw July 16th 03 10:36 PM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
In article , Chesney Christ wrote:
A certain Jim H, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

Especially in the not so demanding world of digital HiFi. I mean, what
is cd, 150k/s? A £1 length of cat5 is good for at least 100M/s, enough
for more than 600 cd streams.


Y'all got that right. This is snake-oil at it's finest.


This is a problem for people who don't have much experience of hifi;
distilling the truth from the sea of snake-oil it swims in... I mean,
of course if you use badly shielded cable I guess it'll pick up some
mains hum/RF interference: but working out what expensive
interconnects, or speaker stands, are meant to do is distinctly
non-trivial :/

- Andrew

--
Andrew Walkingshaw |


Andrew Walkingshaw July 17th 03 09:10 AM

FS: AudioQuest Digital Pro
 
In article , Dave Plowman wrote:

The way some speakers are coupled - or not - to the floor can indeed make
a difference - as can a turntable mounting.

But the dedicated idiot takes this further and decides the same applies to
amplifiers, etc.


Right, so it's just a case of separating things-which-vibrate from large
objects which will have a different resonant frequency? That makes
quite a bit of sense, actually.

(I can't see why this would matter for a bunch of solid-state
electronics, such as an amp, though.)

- Andrew (now listening to Wire - "Map Ref 41degN 93degW")

--
Andrew Walkingshaw |



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