USB Ferrite Beads

[Anonymous]

I’m Running 2x QU32 in a studio scenario into 2 X Imacs.
Interconnect is with USB B streaming.
Control is by ethernet
My question is: to USE ferrite beads on USB cables or NOT?
I have had some issues … like weird distortion on a couple of channels min the middle of the 28 channels im streaming to just on the one QU 32 after the likes of 30 mins the 2 channels turned to distortion.
Another case where another channel would have the same audio ? NOT next to a related channel.
I have fixed this by restarting an iMac until that issue came back.
So I swapped out that USB cable with the ferrite beads which are just a clamp on at each end… with a plain USB cable
and since then no issues. hmm.
The other setup I had just cross talk to a channel NOT next to the related channels.
This is NOT a routing issue as I know my routing very well!
None of us have a lot of time to experiment with / with out the use of ferrite beads.
Interestingly both my studio setups had similair issues’. One setup more than the other.
USB leads are USA made… good quality.
I use Reaper software. 😐
One iMac has Lion and the other Elcapitan.

and I have looked at many Dr Google links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead

What is the A and H policy for [Ferrite Bead] using USB streaming QU to computer?

[[XAP]BobParticipant]

Non A&H…

I would be very surprised if a ferrite could selectively affect certain channeld

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