I know, from personal experience (my dad has a setup), that on sufficiently high end systems (tube amps, premium quality vinyl records, $5000 turntables), the cables make a difference. Some of the cables are hand made, and have markets of less than 1000 buyers. They really do sound different though.
Woohoo, expectation bias in action.
Back on topic, a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less.
> a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less.
Wow, I wish I had a friendly low margin computer store in my area. Other than Best Buy and the recently-defunct CompUSA, the only computer stores around are mom'n'pop stores that charge more markup on everything than NewEgg, MonoPrice, and even Walmart...
Ha, mine are mom'n'pop stores too, but they're Chinese in a fairly Chinese area, with other computer shops around .. price sensitive market + good competition = I am happy. I love that kind of shop actually; they act as these little value-added distribution branches. Order heaps of the top 100 (or so) products, add 5-10% to the wholesale price, then they walk out the door.
The bad side is that we actually don't have a big internet electronics retailer here (Australia). A Newegg would probably be cheaper - I thought they were very cheap? But they would have difficulty starting, since they'd rely on volume to beat the small operators, but the small ones do a pretty good job and can sell minus shipping .. wouldn't want to try to compete with them unless I had very deep pockets.
Seems I told a lie though, just looked it up and it's actually more like AUD$15 (USD$12-13) for HDMI. Sorry : /
I know, from personal experience (my dad has a setup), that on sufficiently high end systems (tube amps, premium quality vinyl records, $5000 turntables), the cables make a difference. Some of the cables are hand made, and have markets of less than 1000 buyers. They really do sound different though.
Woohoo, expectation bias in action.
Back on topic, a neat trick is to go to your friendly low margin neighbourhood computer store; they tend to have every cable you could possibly imagine for $10 or less.