While most people use this type of cable to a printer, it goes with me to the operation of an external sound card (with its own power supply) - the computer is in a different corner of the living room as the stereo, and with proper installation one already needs as 7m. For CD-quality almost 200 Kbytes per second have run clean through the cable - dropouts and delays would make immediately be interfered noticeable, a printer would start to print only a little later. Unwrapped, connected - and first a bust: the sound card is not listed among the audio equipment of the computer. Then another USB port tried: detected sound card, playback works flawlessly, no dropouts. An "active" high price cable is not necessary here. For those who thus put not their printer to work: different USB ports like a layman appear "equal", experience shows - again - that they are severely different.
