Monster Cable producing "speed-rated" HDMI cables

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sr1329 @ Aug 29th 2007 5:57PM

I don't know. Bose and Monster have really done nothing good for this world.

It is this "cable quality awareness" that makes it so that the cheapest cable for anything at Best Buy is $20. For HDMI: $40. For the same cable that would have cost $10 before Monster came on the scene.

For most people, with the equipment they have, any Radio Shack level cable would do the trick. If on the other hand, you are putting together a $20,000 Audiophile quality system, you will already know what kind of cable quality you need (and what it can cost).

Today where everything is digital, cable quality matters very little (okay let's not get into audiophile territory where in audio applications a digital co-axial has to be at exactly 75ohms to prevent timing errors in the signal that show up as jitter that the person with the $6,000 CD transport connected to the $12,000 DAC will hear), and any Monoprice level cable will do the job.

For my video setup I'm using Monoprice all the way. For my audio setup - don't ask.

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