agentsmith;275886 Wrote: > Actually, I found with HDMI cables that it is actually better to buy > cheap mass market HDMI cables that is thinner then buying thick and > expensive ones. I actually had lots of trouble with thicker cables as > they tend to get yanked off the poorly designed HDMI sockets, > potentially even damaging the sockets permenantly. > > And no matter what they say, I am not convinced that digital cables can > make much of a difference.
I thought the (now infamous) Sean "let's mangle a toslink with some tools and even cut it in half and hold it together by hand" test told us quite a lot about the pros and cons of exotic optical cables...maybe someone should repeat the test with coax... I've tried and I've tried and I can't hear any difference in digital cables over < 5m runs. Some cables don't work reliably over 5m... I use Kimber D60 - because I got it cheap from eBay...but I'm not convinced. Speaker cables and interconnects are another matter - there are differences to be heard, which in all likelihood are down to the different reactance of the cables, rather than any pseudo-quantum phenomena. Interestingly I find active (crossover-less) speakers much less susceptible to cable differences than normal ones... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44124 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
