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Originally posted by Splinemodel
Actually, being a digital cable the only thing you have to worry about (at all) is signal impedance. The problematic kind is going to come from inductance, which can be cured by either keeping the cable really short or making the wires thicker. The shorter the cable, the less you need to worry about this stuff. Otherwise, just get the cable with the thickest gauge wires you can find. Often, name brands aren't the ones with the thickest wiring. Monster cables tend to have extremely aggressive shielding, which for a digital cable is superfluous, and in fact can be harmful if it causes too much capacitance.
Actually, being a digital cable the only thing you have to worry about (at all) is signal impedance. The problematic kind is going to come from inductance, which can be cured by either keeping the cable really short or making the wires thicker. The shorter the cable, the less you need to worry about this stuff. Otherwise, just get the cable with the thickest gauge wires you can find. Often, name brands aren't the ones with the thickest wiring. Monster cables tend to have extremely aggressive shielding, which for a digital cable is superfluous, and in fact can be harmful if it causes too much capacitance.
++ How Monster morphed from being a maker of cleverly marketed midline cabling to the ubiquitous king of grossly overpriced fake high-end should be a case study in business classes.
Every time I look at one of their "ultra-deluxe, super high definition oxygen free oriented strand communes with the spirits of the dead" $50 pair of 3 foot, big knurled knob with color insert RCA terminated coax, I shake my head in wonderment.
Fake high end cabling must be the secret profit center of people moving to high def displays, since you apparently cannot purchase a reasonably priced more than adequate length of cabling of any sort at a place like Best Buy.
And the whole "oooh, it's digital, it must require an exquisitely engineered high tech cable that costs a lot" thing has only made it worse.
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