Review on AudioQuest Forest 0 75M Digital Audio by Devon Holmes

Some $5 cables work very well, but $20 cables cause problems. I think a lot of AudioQuest's higher tiers are wasteful and over the top, but I actually have two Forest cables because they're solidly made and I know what I'm getting. Of all the cables I've tried in the sub-$40 range, these have been the most consistent. It's true that all data sent over a USB cable is ones and zeros, but there's one big difference between OS-managed data (files, device control data, etc.) and streaming music: bug fixes. For example, if the operating system moves a file between the computer and the USB drive, it will identify any data errors and resend the corrupted data. On the other hand, music sent to the DAC is simply sent and received blindly. Line noise can change some of these zeros to ones and vice versa. That's not to say that a well-made, inexpensive USB cable can perform as well as an expensive one, but many cheap USB cables do degrade sound quality. If you have the ear, the time, and the patience, you can just toss out the box of spare USB cables and test each one until you find one that works well.