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marce said:
Wyred 4 Sound Recovery USB Reclocker | AudioStream

Threatening another poster with banning, what a complete and utter tw**, he is the ultimate BS reviewer with his follow my tune attitude... then read CGs explanation of how a USB signal is recovered, incredible......
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The device is so small, I must assume there is simply nothing inside it, the signal just being passed through.

I will DIY one myself, and report back how much better it sounds. Just need to get the reviewers albums.
 
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drtebi said:
The device is so small, I must assume there is simply nothing inside it, the signal just being passed through.

I will DIY one myself, and report back how much better it sounds. Just need to get the reviewers albums.
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Here you go, its all ready been done, one Audiophile hub uses this device I believe, the IC names are hid in the photos but I have followed the routing etc and reverse engineered the pictures and I'm am certain this is the device.

ftp://ftp.smsc.com/pub/usb/evb2412user.pdf

Its a common design and where used commercially in non audiophile hubs (though on a couple the claim of less noise would be valid as they are laid out to minimise noise coupling) so just copy this and job done.
 
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There were many similar devices like this ‚mostly just pretty chunks of wood with a couple of wires running through them , back in the early days of cd .
They claimed to clean up the digital noise and fitted between the player output and amp inputs.
On a side note just been reading a blog by a guy new to hi-fi who wrote " it may seem crazy but some cables cost $ 50 per metre ! " he's in for a shock soon 🙂
 
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scott wurcer said:
You mean elephants can't fly?
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I was about to write down the aerodynamic lift equation, look up the weight and ear (wing) area of an African elephant, guesstimate the lift coefficient of a tapered elephant ear, and do a few calculations to find out at what speed an elephant would generate enough lift to fly.

But it turns out someone else already did (almost) all that, and created a web page about it, too: How Could an Elephant Fly? - science made simple

-Gnobuddy
 
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They've picked them up with a flying aircraft, in tests of the skyhook

Fulton first used instrumented dummies as he prepared for a live pickup. He next used a pig, as pigs have nervous systems close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 mph (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured but in a disoriented state. Once it recovered, it attacked the crew.[2]
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I love that they really didn't think to have some way of sedating what was bound to be a very pissed off pig when they got it on board.
 
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