Comment on Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1

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xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“High Quality Audio” in terms of the sample rate and bit depth, but considering the quality of most of these DAC/ADCs you get integrated in cables like this, I somehow doubt the data rate is actually the limiting factor on quality.

Personally I can’t tell the difference between 192kHz and 92kHz samples rates, or 16bit and 24 bit either (maybe a young kid with perfect ears could, but they’ll probably also notice background noise due to most of these using unfiltered USB power). The dongle manufacturers seem to care more about the marketing value of bigger numbers than actual usability.

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