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So today I experienced firsthand what a difference cables can make!
Purchased a DS-DAC-100m from [member=664]Wolla[/member] which arrived this morning - to be used with a laptop into a Pioneer A209 from [member=15057]BobsYourUncle[/member] to my newly acquired Boston A26's.
Skived off this afternoon to set everything up - laptop uses MusicBee which gets the music files from a shared drive on another PC.
All was wonderful, until I tried a few Hi-Res files. Snap, crackle, pop - I couldn't decide whether I was listening to Rice Krispies or a really bad vinyl......
Chopped & changed with my DS-DAC-100, DS-Dac-100 was 100% on both, 100m was crackly irrespective of PC or Laptop.
Confusion set in - I have never experienced this with the DS-DAC-100, so why now with the 100m? Was about to phone [member=664]Wolla[/member] & ask "WTF is up?" when I decided to try a different USB cable...........
Problem solved. Seems, for whatever reason, the supplied USB cable did not like my laptop or PC.
DS-DAC-100 & 100m have different connectors, so use different cables, and the cable for the 100m was a loose fit. New cable & hey presto! all is good.
So, the next time anyone tells you cables make no difference................. refer them to this thread!
oint:
So today I experienced firsthand what a difference cables can make!
Purchased a DS-DAC-100m from [member=664]Wolla[/member] which arrived this morning - to be used with a laptop into a Pioneer A209 from [member=15057]BobsYourUncle[/member] to my newly acquired Boston A26's.
Skived off this afternoon to set everything up - laptop uses MusicBee which gets the music files from a shared drive on another PC.
All was wonderful, until I tried a few Hi-Res files. Snap, crackle, pop - I couldn't decide whether I was listening to Rice Krispies or a really bad vinyl......
Chopped & changed with my DS-DAC-100, DS-Dac-100 was 100% on both, 100m was crackly irrespective of PC or Laptop.
Confusion set in - I have never experienced this with the DS-DAC-100, so why now with the 100m? Was about to phone [member=664]Wolla[/member] & ask "WTF is up?" when I decided to try a different USB cable...........
Problem solved. Seems, for whatever reason, the supplied USB cable did not like my laptop or PC.
DS-DAC-100 & 100m have different connectors, so use different cables, and the cable for the 100m was a loose fit. New cable & hey presto! all is good.
So, the next time anyone tells you cables make no difference................. refer them to this thread!
oint:
