Don't waste your money on high-priced HDMI cable

[Thad E Ginathom]

Well, there is a possible in-between: the gaps where a 0 or a 1 should be and isn't

Shershah, I only have a cheap DVI cable to my monitor: I'm afraid that I couldn't read all your post: some of the black was not black enough.

As to the skipping ropes, I'm trying to think of cables that I have known to physically fail...

--- the silly plastic latch on rj11 and rj45 cables. Regardless of cost.

--- Cat5-etc cables are very intolerant of desk legs, chair wheels and other heavy weights.

--- bent pins on ps2 mouse or keyboard connectors

--- some ridiculously heavyweight SCSI stuff from IBM (normally good at bullet-proof design) where the socket was never going to take the weight of the plug for ever

--- there was some other PC connector that had a sliding latch, and a colleague ofmine used to break every one he touched, but I can't think what it was.

If you really want longevity, I've got cheap and nasty in-the-box analogue interconnects in the cable pile, some of which might be twenty-plus years old!

 

[paritosh]

very true...i read similar article several months back in some forum.....its DIGITAL so thr has to be either 0 or 1...thr is no in between...hence it should either should work or shdnt wrk.

well, having watched an IIT programme on Digital Video Transfer a week back on Gyandarshan, I tend to believe that YES, it is the bit 1 or 0 that the cable needs to carry, but just imagine how many bits / bytes it would take to fill you gigantic full HD panels!!! now, us laymen might not know the diffence if some 0.1 percent of data was skipped. it would not cause a complete black out but might seem like SOMETHING IS MiSSING to a trained eye.

i might be wrong or might have completely misunderstood how the video signals are trnsfered digitally (especially being a Mech Engg ;-) but when someone like a veteran says it, it should make sense....

though on the other hand, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. if one finds no difference in PQ, why spend more?

 

[prankey]

Godwin's second law...

The first person, in a hifi forum, to mention Bose...

:yahoo::clapping::yahoo::clapping:

Hehe, you seems to have missed my post on another thread

Well. I own Bose. I have had reasons for buying them (in 1999). I was constrained by space; not too many options in India at that time; high customs duty; wanted a lightweight package that I could carry in check-in baggage from Abu Dhabi, etc. They are OK for cinema though; crap for pure hi-fi music.

I had actually purchased a Rs2.5k 4.1 Intex speakers with wooden cabinet and they performed well for movies!!! Basically the harmonics and fullness of Music can be heard in good Tower speakers only (like we discussed before). Movies mostly have ambient sound and loud and subtle noise which can be heard well in any high powered speaker set..

dammit! - this cannot be true -and only i know that -

you chaps - you naysayers- you guys are in the forests of lies-

while i live on the open steppes of truth -

and while i see the darker blacks and deeper depths and hollows with our expensive (laser-aligned and welded) HDMI cables -

you guys - the hoi-polloi- have to make do with cheapo digital cables:lol:

That is a great divide - and i am not sure that i can even see you guys at that distance!:lol::lol:

Hehe, I would like to see your CV You write very well as I see in all your threads... Talking about your cable.. I envy that you could afford such great cables... However while these cables do have excellent analog performance... these have very little relevance in digital world.

As long as the transmitting and receiving end can accurately encode and decode the bit-streams, errors in intermediate media (copper, fiber, air, etc.) would not matter..

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

As long as the transmitting and receiving end can accurately encode and decode the bit-streams...

If they couldn't, it would be a crap standard, surely!

 

[prankey]

If they couldn't, it would be a crap standard, surely!

While SPDIF do not have any error detection or correction mechanism (not that it is any less reliable needing more expensive cables), HDMI has several error detection mechanisms like inverse bitstream which has "mirrored" signals of the actual bitstream so errors can be detected and possibly corrected... Also, HDMI signals have a reference clock signals which gets synced at the reception avoiding possible jitters in receptions... The cables are shielded as well to prevent amplitude loss and RF interference.. so practically ALL HDMI cables should give same results despite difference in build quality...

 

[stevieboy]

That is a great divide - and i am not sure i can even see you guys at that distance!:lol::lol:

If you had a good HDMI cable you'd have been able to see the distance

 

[Hiten]

This limerick dedicated to AudioQuest HDMI Cable hyeah:

We can fight, we can argue for all day long
for subjective thing, U can't say I am wrong

Because I inherited wealth & I am able.
Difference it sure makes, this $999 cable.

I feel powerful when I take out my dough.
This cable makes digits run in easy flow.

People are jealous, its their mentality.
But I see lovely Katrina in High Fidelity.

 

[sriramgiyer]

--- the silly plastic latch on rj11 and rj45 cables. Regardless of cost.

Good one, on the RJ45 front...:clapping: Almost an universal truth :lol:

--- bent pins on ps2 mouse or keyboard connectors

Though this depends on the patience level (not everyday you are gonna thrust in and pull out...

 

[kaushik]

for Katrina we can ad 1 -2k extra

But I see lovely Katrina in High Fidelity.

 

[baijuxavior]

not everyday you are gonna thrust in and pull out...

Yea only when in home and mood strucks.

 

[venkatcr]

To Shershah and others. Since I am not participating in this thread, do not bring my name into any discussion here.

Cheers

 

[stevieboy]

Hiten,

Truly hilarious indeed you keep surpassing yourself! :clapping:

Venkat sorry, didn't take too much note of your name in the quote. Was just humorously shooting one back at shershah on his funny post.

regards

 

[Hiten]

hehe, Thanks stevie.

you keep surpassing yourself

you mean for better or worse ???

 

[Kittu]

Definitely better :clapping:.

 

[stevieboy]

hehe, Thanks stevie.

you mean for better or worse ???

Definitely the latter You're sinking to new heights with every effort
!

 

[Hiten]

hehe thanks again stevie. very much appreciated. I will try to surpass that level from any way

you look at it.

 

[COOLVIKAS]

in delhi there is one impoter of hdmi offering for 10 mtr 800/- only & i compare with my 5k cable there is no any difference

 

[nandac]

dogs have sharper hearing than men. i remember a comment in a guitar magazine that paul reed smith (of prs guitars) had sharper ears than dogs! there are musicians with an acute hearing sense (absolute pitch, relative pitch etc) that normal people don't have. hearing ability can also be developed/cultivated as anybody training in music can experience over a period of time. i myself have only regular ears -) but at times i can hear difference in quality between different audio equipment. but i would not dispute another view (ability to hear superior sound etc) just because i can't hear the difference.

 

[aventhu]

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[aventhu]

Why would they not?

Unless, of course, you use them as skipping rope when you are not watching TV! hyeah:

:lol:
:yahoo:
hyeah:
:clapping: