I wanted everyone here at the Squeezebox user forums to be the first know that these brand new and literally amazing USB cables. Now I know many of you are wondering why Squeezebox users, most of whom stream their music files to their Squeezebox devices either wirelessly or via Ethernet, would care about USB cables. Okay let's face it Logitech has abandoned the Squeezebox product line and sooner or later all of us will be listening to our music files using a Mac mini connected via a USB cable to an asynchronous DAC so a high quality USB cable is in your future. With that in mind let me tell you a little about these amazing new USB cables!
As I'm sure all of you know there are many different digital audio file formats but up until now there has only been one type of USB cable. The new Piltdown series of USB cables does away with that old, stale paradigm and introduces three radically different USB cables with each cable uniquely designed to handle a specific type of digital audio file. At the low end of the Piltdown line is the C cable which is made for use with all compressed file formats, such as mp3. The C cable's design works to pre-uncompress the data so that the DAC's work load is deceased and the DAC is then capable of extracting every last musical detail from the data stream. Remember I did state that these new cable are an amazing breakthrough!! In the middle of the Piltdown line is the L cable which has been designed for use with all types of standard resolution lossless digital audio files. As with the C cables the L cables pre-uncompress the data but do so at a the much higher rate required for lossless data files. And finally for the true connoisseur there is the cost no object Piltdown HR cable. This special cable has been carefully designed to handle the demands of high resolution digital audio files. These files contain massive amounts of data and the HR cable can handle these advanced data rates with room to spare! The pricing for the amazing Piltdown USB cables as not yet been set but will available shortly. Please watch for the upcoming announcement. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100230 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
