Covenanter said:
Benedict_Arnold said:
Covenanter said:
All competently made digital cables are the same.
Chris
It isn't the same at all! Cars have loads of variables that make them different from each other. Digital cables merely have to deliver a stream of binary bits and it doesn't even matter if they are degraded in the process as long as the 1's and 0's can be identified. All competently made cables can do that which is why the snake oil marketing is just that.
Wrong.
The 1s and 0s won't all make it through a bad cable,
and the hardware at the receiving end will spend half its time error correcting.
Yup and that totally messes up stereo imaging, produces flabby bass, unfocused midrange and less air in the highs, with worst scenario where even the pitch sounds off. It's exactly like running a bakery when some of your supplies don't get delivered because of bad roads and traffic congestion, so your cakes and tarts start being tasting weird, less vanilla here, less chocolate there, and customers will stop coming. Manufacturers now declare on their cables the purity of the copper (99.99999%) and that tells you how many potholes are on the road to the bakery. The purer it is, less delivery trucks will be damaged and more of your supplies will arrive and more customers will stay with your business in your area. It's like with sound. You can't improve it, just hope to lose as less as possible.