Comments on: Cables of gold http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/ Life is great, and it only gets better. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:31:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Mike Lunt http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-2118 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:37:27 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-2118 Interesting... Your comment reminded me of two tidbits that I didn't mention in the original post. First, most of my drops were 30 ft or more because I was running this through a wall in a somewhat elaborate way. Second, since I didn't have an electrical outlet in the middle of the wall, I had to run a heavy duty extension cord through the wall as well. The extension cord had to be run along side all of the A/V cables, which increased my fears of interference. In the future, I'll most likely laugh at someone telling me about Monster cables, but my system is working flawlessly at the moment, so it's money under the bridge. :-) Interesting… Your comment reminded me of two tidbits that I didn’t mention in the original post. First, most of my drops were 30 ft or more because I was running this through a wall in a somewhat elaborate way. Second, since I didn’t have an electrical outlet in the middle of the wall, I had to run a heavy duty extension cord through the wall as well. The extension cord had to be run along side all of the A/V cables, which increased my fears of interference. In the future, I’ll most likely laugh at someone telling me about Monster cables, but my system is working flawlessly at the moment, so it’s money under the bridge. :-)

]]> by: Andrew http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-1972 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:29:05 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-1972 I just found your blog. You got taken. The cables on the link below are sufficient for anything. You can go read about it in avsforum.com, but the bottom line is that high priced cables could only matter on drop lengths 50 feet and up. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024004&p_id=2412&seq=1&format=2&style= I just found your blog. You got taken. The cables on the link below are sufficient for anything. You can go read about it in avsforum.com, but the bottom line is that high priced cables could only matter on drop lengths 50 feet and up.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024004&p_id=2412&seq=1&format=2&style=

]]> by: Mike Lunt http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-87 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:23:04 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-87 Good question for the Best Buy guy... I asked when I was there, and he said they are using the worst connection possible - standard coax. I hadn't ever noticed the bad pictures on the TV's in there until he showed me the lines and details missing. I'm no connoisseur on judging HD pictures, but when you want to really test the details, look at the hair on someone. If it's a good picture, you'll see the individual hairs. On another note, the reason I question my luckiness is that I may not have any interference, so the expensive cables might not have been needed, and this may be your case. The guy at Best Buy claims they have made more than one house call about lines in the picture, which were all solved by swapping the cables for higher shielding. What would be cool is something that could test for interference before you buy, so you would know whether to buy the more expensive ones. Good question for the Best Buy guy… I asked when I was there, and he said they are using the worst connection possible - standard coax. I hadn’t ever noticed the bad pictures on the TV’s in there until he showed me the lines and details missing. I’m no connoisseur on judging HD pictures, but when you want to really test the details, look at the hair on someone. If it’s a good picture, you’ll see the individual hairs.

On another note, the reason I question my luckiness is that I may not have any interference, so the expensive cables might not have been needed, and this may be your case. The guy at Best Buy claims they have made more than one house call about lines in the picture, which were all solved by swapping the cables for higher shielding. What would be cool is something that could test for interference before you buy, so you would know whether to buy the more expensive ones.

]]> by: Brandon http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-86 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:07:42 +0000 http://www.mikelunt.com/blog/2006/11/01/cables-of-gold/#comment-86 I think you got taken. I have been trying out some cheap HDMI cables and some component cables as well. As best I can tell they all deliver excellent pictures. Given how much money all this home theater stuff costs, I was tempted like you to cave and buy the monster cables. I think monster is just flat out greedy on these things. Sure maybe a 5% or 10% premium would be justifiable. But charging 10 times what other cables cost, it's just insane, I could NOT do it and went with the cheap stuff. Everything works fine and I have no regrets. The next time you are at best buy you should look and see what cables they are using to hook up their demo TVs. I wonder if it's all monster... I think you got taken. I have been trying out some cheap HDMI cables and some component cables as well. As best I can tell they all deliver excellent pictures. Given how much money all this home theater stuff costs, I was tempted like you to cave and buy the monster cables. I think monster is just flat out greedy on these things. Sure maybe a 5% or 10% premium would be justifiable. But charging 10 times what other cables cost, it’s just insane, I could NOT do it and went with the cheap stuff. Everything works fine and I have no regrets. The next time you are at best buy you should look and see what cables they are using to hook up their demo TVs. I wonder if it’s all monster…

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