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| Thread ID: 88936 | 2008-04-15 07:56:00 | HDMI cable prices | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 659118 | 2008-04-15 10:28:00 | Echoing robsondes sentiments, last month an article entitled do coat hangers sound as good as Monster cables (consumerist.com) done the rounds, can only guess the consensus. Edit: Argh, that's what I get when leaving a reply hanging in a background tab, lol. |
sal (67) | ||
| 659119 | 2008-04-17 13:32:00 | Found this (www.electronichouse.com) article the other day and it explains it pretty well. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 659120 | 2008-04-17 22:12:00 | I belong to a local Hi Fi club which holds meetings at various members houses once a month. Every now and then we go to a members house to here his $200 a metre new interconnect cables and try them out with his standard ones. You want to here them say how much better they sound to the standard ones. I can really say as of yet I haven't heard any differance between ordinary interconnects and $200 or $300 gold plated platinum wired oxygen free copper cables yet. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 659121 | 2008-04-17 22:37:00 | sounds like you guys need your hearing checked ;) LOL good cables make a noticeable difference to the high end and yes i can here it myself. however most people will not hear it. partly due to their hearing but also they do not know what they listening for. mind you these days, after years of firearm use and power tool use i doubt i could tell the difference myself LOL. with digital cables i wouldn't bother as digital signal doesn't suffer the same problems as analog ie you don't get bad quality, its all or nothing, bad signal will cause sound to drop out completly. only thing good cables will do is shielding from outside noise which will only effect things when the signal gets converted to analog. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 659122 | 2008-04-18 07:58:00 | yeah Trev, when it comes to audio (and when using analogue cables) there is definately a noticeable difference between a budget cable and a good one. I can't say I would be able to tell you the difference between short lengths of cable that are $80 a metre and $200 a metre though, gotta say that $200 a metre is definately overkill! What exactly is it made of? And what the heck is that guy running? lol. Super audiophiles at work. | Deathwish (143) | ||
| 659123 | 2008-04-19 03:38:00 | I went to a Mega Warehouse the other day and you can get HDMI cables for $29.95 or $29.99 cant remember which price so if you say $30.00 its all good.That's were I will buy my HDMI cables from when I get an lcd tv that is. With the HDMI cables they have a mandated minimum standard that all HDMI cables have to meet so they are all good. If you want to get better then the standard then that's up to how much money you want to waste on a simple cable and whether you would notice the difference from one cable to another is I would expect that you would want to somehow justify the money you just wasted. Besides they are all proberly made in the same Chinese factory anyway with different coloured outers on them etc. | memphis (2869) | ||
| 659124 | 2008-04-19 08:03:00 | Not sure where Megawarehouse is located but PBtech has them for about $16.88 for 2 meter HDMI cables. www.pbtech.co.nz |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 659125 | 2008-04-19 09:53:00 | Mega Warehouse's are the big Warehouse buildings. The super big red sheds.I went to the one in Riccarton in Christchurch.The regular Warehouse's should have them as well. | memphis (2869) | ||
| 659126 | 2008-04-19 16:49:00 | sounds like you guys need your hearing checked ;) LOL good cables make a noticeable difference to the high end and yes i can here it myself. however most people will not hear it. partly due to their hearing but also they do not know what they listening for. mind you these days, after years of firearm use and power tool use i doubt i could tell the difference myself LOL. with digital cables i wouldn't bother as digital signal doesn't suffer the same problems as analog ie you don't get bad quality, its all or nothing, bad signal will cause sound to drop out completly. only thing good cables will do is shielding from outside noise which will only effect things when the signal gets converted to analog. Have to agree with tweak'e here, Cables are like components in your audio system, you need to audition a number of cables, to see which one you like the best. High end cables can change the sound of your system. Some cables might make it sound to bright, while others may bring out the bass more..That why you need to audition cables with your system..to bring out the best. As with HDMI buy a mid price cable and you should be right. Cheaper cables may deteriorate more quickly. But if you have a $15,000 TV and Blu ray player, then you could afford a $500 HDMI cable. My 2 cents. |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 659127 | 2008-04-21 06:10:00 | I've seen standard IEC power cords costing (not "worth") over $700 seriously "reviewed" in a NZ HiFi magazine . I've seen suggestions that because there is some distortion in the mains power, "real" audio enthusiasts should use a rectifier/sinewave generation system . I realised recently that there might be some difference in the sound caused by different interconnection cables . . . different capacitance of the cable would make a difference . But low capacitance cables should cost much (if any) more than others . I'm quite sure that cables aren't directional . All copper cables are "oxygen free", whether the market droids say so or not . Wire manufacturers couldn't make the wire if there was oxide in the copper . I'm sure people will buy multi-hundred dollar cables . There seems to be a good supply of guillible people . |
Graham L (2) | ||
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