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Re:$695 USB cable wins TAS's editors' choice award by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:27PM (#7065903)
Unless your cable is broken, there will be no retrying or high level error correction going on. And buffering will be independent of the cable chosen.

A passive cable can't change timing. The only question is whether the signal gets through in an intact form and can be locked onto. Any kind of difference you can have from working-cable construction is completely overshadowed by things like cable length.

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Re:$695 USB cable wins TAS's editors' choice award by rayiner on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:14PM (#7066213)
I'm not saying that the cable can change timing. My post really wasn't about the cable. It was about the more general misconception that people have that digital audio/video interconnects (the whole system, cable + transceivers) are somehow "bit perfect."
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