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    Default It's not just audio cables

    From the latest issue of PC World.

    http://www.pcworld.com/resource/prin...,121777,00.asp

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    Nice article.

    If everyone would take the time to read it carefully, we could quit wasting our time with discussions of how cables effect sound/picture quality.

    There are really three primary things that matter: the source material, the final output device (which includes speakers as well asmonitor/projector/screen) and the room.
    Last edited by Kurt C.; 08-15-2005 at 10:54 AM.

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    the only factor left to argue i think would be cable length.
    powdered toast man away!

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    With video cables I noticed a drastic difference going from a single analog composite cable to a digital HDMI interface.

    For speakerwire I run 14ga stuff from Walmart that I bought 100' of for like $7.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Mosher
    With video cables I noticed a drastic difference going from a single analog composite cable to a digital HDMI interface.

    For speakerwire I run 14ga stuff from Walmart that I bought 100' of for like $7.
    Wouldn't you expect the difference to be primarily due to the swap fro m composite to HDMI? I would suspect that a change from composite to component would also show a significant difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastbike
    I would suspect that a change from composite to component would also show a significant difference.
    Sure does. It's easy to test as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastbike
    Wouldn't you expect the difference to be primarily due to the swap fro m composite to HDMI? I would suspect that a change from composite to component would also show a significant difference.
    Composite to component does show a big improvement, but a lot
    depends on your DVD player and your display, specifically how they
    interact. When I first got my DVD player, it couldn't pass blacker than
    black over HDMI, so the digital connection quality was inferior to component.
    Then they put out an upgrade that fixed the issue, and now HDMI looks
    superior. This is to a plasma display.

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