YB-Y1 HiFi HighQuality, 4N OFC USB2.0 A to B Digital Audio DAC Cable, Professional USB 2.0 Cable, YB-Y1 (1M/3.2ft)

Mejor que un Audioquest Carbon que era 4 veces más caro... y más corto!!

Love this new USB cable I will admit it is a bit stiff but it works as intended and I have no noise going to my Dac

With this cable, the veil was lifted so far back I can finally hear the visible spectrum of color in music!Full disclosure, I am not one to subscribe to cables making anything sound better. I believe you have good performing cables and you have poor performing cables. If a cable is well designed, you've reached the pinnacle of the cabling and nothing else is gained. Everything else is bling.That being the case, I enjoy a good looking interconnects on good looking equipment, and this cable looks fantastic! The build quality is absolutely premium and it certainly looks like minimal machine use was involved in it's creation. This cable in my setup is being used from my PC to DAC to amp to floor standers in my office. I did not have jitter or interference issues needing cleanup over USB with my previous cheap cheap cable, and that remains the same with this interconnect.Verdict: Nothing more is gained other than getting the quality that you should be in the first place when spending more on a quality audio cable, but sometimes it's nice to have nice looking things. In this case, nice looking and well built doesn't have to hurt your wallet.

Potential buyers: Go elsewhere !This cable has problems. First, the cable-to-connector transitions are extremely tight with a massive MBR (minimum bend radius). I have had the cable for about five weeks and had no problem with it. Last night I adjusted the position of my DAC by about 4 inches. The result was no audio. Not thinking that the cable could possible be the problem, two hours of troubleshooting resulted in swapping out the USB cable. Low and behold, my audio problem went away. After examining the cable, I put it back into place twice to confirm that the cable had failed. After ruminating on how angry I was that I wasted my money on this Chinese made junk cable, I realized that, since I am screwed out of the money I spent, I should warn other prospective owners that these cables are of marginal quality and the cost? They are most likely marked up 150% - 200%. I am sure the seller is laughing as they read this. Why shouldn't they?

I purchased this cable as a connection between an Intel NUC running Roon to a Denafrips PONTUS II DAC, and it works great. The cable is very heavy and has a quality build to it with good moldings on each end of the cable, a heavy jacketed sheathing, and two ferrite cores on each end that can be adjusted. I can't say I am such a HiFi nut that I would go spent $1,000 on different USB cables to compare them, but honestly for what this costs - I don't see how you can go wrong. If you are starting out, there is no reason to NOT get this as your first USB cable and then borrow some from your local HiFi club/friends to see if you really need to spend more money. While it's quite possible a $1,000 cable will sound better, I think you are going to need to spend an order of magnitude more than what this cable costs before you hear any difference - and even then it will be minimal depending your signal path.

I don't believe in all cables needing to be high end and this is a reasonable price. The cable is stiff and thick. If you have a light dac or device the cable will move it around. Did I hear a difference, nope not at all but the yellow sticks out!!! You device that take the digital packets is more important than the cable.

What else is there to say? I had terrible HF noise from a *very* nice desktop DAC/Headphone amp after replacing a decent short "audiophile" cable with either a 6ft or 10ft "normal" PVC jacketed USB Type-A to Type-B printer cable. This cable *instantly* corrected the problem with the amp sitting in the exact same spot, cable following the same path to the same USB port. I don't doubt that adding a pair of ferrites to either of the regular cables might have had the same effect, but who knows? Snap on ferrites aren't cheap, slide down the cable. These brass encased ferrites look cool, work great.

Great cable however, quite stiff and inflexible making it a problem for my non-rack mounted devices.