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RE: HDMI connectors are bad deign, and that offends Bears

I feel the Monoprice HDMI cables- the heavyweight industrial grades anyway- are excellently constructed, indestructible, and carry a fine video image. Their only problem is their massive weight and inflexibility.

The poor quality of HDMI plugs on most cables is matched by the poor quality of the jacks on all the equipment I've seen! It would surely kill them to hang 5 lb. of stiff cable from a mere mortal AV preamp's HDMI jacks. Who invented the RCA plug? Milo Zworkin? Philo Farnsworth? They're dead, but we can go after the inventors of the HDMI plug! SHAME!

I have settled on some lighter Audioquest "Pearl" HDMI's (don't know the contemporary name for the **same-damn-thing-different-color-jacket**) and feel to me, broadly, indistinguishable from my older Monoprice silver-plated garden hoses. The A/Q's seem decently made, sound nice enough, and are a bargain used in the unnameable auction website.

It seems most people seriously interested in music choose not to send music signals via HDMI when possible. As far as expensive HDMI cables, the "weak link" doesn't seem to be in the wire but in the underlying design of the receiving device's resistance to jitter. And fine high-spec HDMI cable won't fix problematic design. Video image quality is surely another matter but is of little importance here at the Bearcave.




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  • RE: HDMI connectors are bad deign, and that offends Bears - mr.bear 01/19/1813:18:18 01/19/18 (0)

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