"RokuMarkn" wrote:
I hope he's not wasting his money on those cheap $5000 cables. He needs something like this.
Oh come on, that would be ridiculous. "Acoustic Research" by Audiovox, really? And the cable is
only gold-plated. 1/5 stars. That's a waste of money.
You need a pure-silver core cables for HDMI and USB at about $300/ft. We are not savages here, we all know those carry digital signals - so no need springing for gold core with these. Take the
AudioQuest Diamond Braided HDMI Cable for $6900 instead - it's a bargain for the length. Check out the rave reviews, both of them. If you are on a tight budget, you may try the
AudioQuest Coffee Braided HDMI Cable for $2200. Its conductors are only silver-plated, so quality obviously cannot be the same - but can't be that bad, with so many positive reviews.
But note that to benefit from these, you also have to get $600 power cables with palladium-over-platinum plating (gold plating is so passé), $3000 power conditioner and replace the in-wall power wire to at least $50/ft level (am still looking for the perfect circuit breaker and fighting the power company that stubbornly refuses to lay pure copper all the way to the power plant, WTF). Only sky is the limit with the audio cables, so go crazy with that. Don't forget a
Cable Cooker™ to periodically condition and keep in top shape the cables.
Ulimately, the road to Crazytown, USA is paved with good intentions - but i am not sure there is a bright-line there, between reasonable and un-reasonable. And to craftily reconnect to the thread topic, the 4K video is somewhere on that road - closer to the origin than to the destination, i think.
