no even mid range dacs costing several hundred dollars to a thousand or more benefit audibly from this hdmi audio not terribly ubiquitous
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SwiftOnSecurity
What situation would that be? Most reasonable home DACs use USB, most home audio setups nowadays use HDMI (as toslink is only 2ch lossless or 6ch lossy), and professional audio uses its own spec that isn't compatible with consumer toslink
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Replying to @kuschku @SwiftOnSecurity
in the case i’m familiar with it’s optical out to. chord mojo. when i finally switched to toslink i was quite surprised by the improvement in clarity vs usb
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SwiftOnSecurity
Honestly, with recording the issue is significantly worse than with playback, and with a USB hub with proper power supply with clean DC even recording is measurably *perfect*. (I’m using a Behringer UMC22 connected to the USB hub in my monitor)
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If your playback is audibly noisy when connected to your computer, you should replace either the motherboard or power supply, as such noisy DC could actually damage certain components and isn’t in-spec for USB
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Replying to @kuschku @SwiftOnSecurity
i’m talking about something a little more subtle than hearing the noise, it’s more like coherence with transients, the air around the brighter instruments and voices,
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SwiftOnSecurity
Considering that I don't see a scientific way that such an effect could occur — unclean DC would affect the semiconductor elements in a linear fashion — I'll have to leave the conversation here as we're definitely straying into audiophile pseudoscience, which I can't support.
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Replying to @kuschku @SwiftOnSecurity
lol, you haven’t heard it! that’s pseudoscientific. it’s just mainly two things, electrical noise which the dac has to filter / reject, which it can’t do perfectly, and jitter, which effects time domain stuff, on the usb. pretty widely reported, incl the designer of the dac
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SwiftOnSecurity
You've studied physics, you're a scientist. You should know better, you probably do know better. If you're actually not trolling, please educate yourself, study the science behind it (the real science, not audiophile BS), measure it, repeatedly, and don't trust your own ears.
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