Aftermarket USB cables seem to be all the rage with people paying as much as $15,000 for a short run of it!!! Lots of subjective performance reports are out there but none back with any objective measurements that demonstrates any difference. On the other side of the fence many believe there...

Understanding the Context

This is a review and detailed measurements of the performance of Supra Swedish USB audio cable. It was kindly donated to the forum by a member and sells for US $53 for 2 meter length: I like the light gray look and rather beefy construction. Alas, the latter makes it difficult to rotate the... Well, with some comments here on the forum and others, I bought a Monprice Monolith 1M USB 2 A/B cable.

Key Insights

I also had about a dozen other cables. Put my Focusrite in loopback. Objective results: Between my cables, noise and distortion varied about 1.5 dB. The best was a 4 foot "Copartner"... This is a review and detailed measurements of the AudioQuest 1.5 meter micro USB cable.

Final Thoughts

It is on kind loan from a member and costs US $41 on Amazon. Marking on the cable says that it is "low jitter." The cable is a bit thinner than the generic USB cable I compared it to. The cable feel is a... I have an Intona USB isolator, and it doesn´t help - it happens with and without it. It tried different USB ports, but it´s the same, even with the USB-ports on the other side of the case that are coeccted to the mainboard via cable. I can hear it through headphones and speakers.

This is a review and detailed measurements of the Sonnect SoundWire USB-C to XLR cable adapter (DAC). It is on kind loan from a member and costs €148.84 or... ifi iPurifier3 Measurements My favorite device for testing USB signal quality is a Schiit Modi 2 which in the past has show very high sensitivity to conditions of that signal. So much so that I could measure differences USB cables make when connecting to it!