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$500 USB cable

Someone is trying to sell some fancy (used and 2 ft long) USB cable for $497.50. I am genuinely curious since I am no expert. What does this ultra expensive USB cable do to your audio system (besides transferring digital data)?
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dlcockrum
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You know you have a crusader when he posts 3 consecutive replies with no specifics or useful information.

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geoffkait
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I just finished counting up all the blind testing results for cables over the past 40 years and the results might surprise you. 32,455 heard differences, 54 did not hear differences. I suggest we behave like adults and throw away the 54 outliers, pick up the pieces and move on.

An ordinary man has no means of deliverance.

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lalitk
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@geoffkait, well said 'An ordinary man has no means of deliverance'.
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sbank
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Good point. Those 54 can download Deliverance on Netflix. I hear banjoes all of a sudden. 
czarivey
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psickerson75 posts02-04-2017 2:05amWho guarantees the 0 and 1 sent are correctly?

No need to guarantee either: 
Wire has nothing to do with right or wrong zeros or ones sent. DACs don't care if 'complete or incomplete zero or one' it received. DACs treat zero as ZERO and one as ONE. USB or any digital wire simply cancels out from both part of equation. That's where simple arithmetic kills all the science, hypothesis and beliefs behind. You can check answer with calculator LOL.

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