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wimck
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« on: May 09, 2010, 12:47:23 pm »
In my situation there's no possibility to place my audiopc near the DAC so the distance is about 8 mtr (24 ft).
Now I am using a (too ?) long Canare coax cable.
Thinking about other, hopefully better,  solutions I found a RCA connector.
Then I can plugin the Hiface directly to the DAC so I don't need any coax.

But then I have to find the best possible USB to USB connection for 8 mtr.
One possibility is 2 USB active (?)  repeater cables from 5 Mtr.
Another way could be USB/UTP -> 8 mtr UTP6 -> UTP/USB.

please help me with suggestions, other ideas or whatever!!

(I know BNC connection would be better but I already have the RCA Hiface and my DAC doesn't have BNC)

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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2010, 01:28:39 pm »
Hi Wim,

I used 3 USB (extension, 1 euro) cables, and had 12 meters as a result. This just worked fine with the HiFace.
The only thing you have to watch for is dropouts, and the knowledge of *if* they are happening, this will be the result of too many resends because of the too poor (data !) connection.

Your 8 meters of coax certainly is not the best. At all ...

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