This thread would probably be better served in the Home Theater area as here you’re as likely to get someone who uses HDMI for purely audio as not. That said, I’d hold DHLabs in high regard for both performance and value for either. FWIW.
Need HDMI Cable Input: Knowledge/Comparison Assist, Please
Hi all,
I’m seeking actual comparative experience and comparative notes between HDMI cables you’ve tried/used. Please forego comparisons to manufacturer supplied cables or Amazon Basics, no name brand/etc ... I understand that pretty much any quality HDMI you would have bought to replace those would show notable improvements.
I’m engaging in my first round of tweek/improvements since 2019. Video HDMI is something I really should have done a long way back, but simply forgot about, as I focused on my analog audio section. I’m interested in the inexpensive range, and have thus far narrowed it down too (on reading only) Pangea, Furutech, DH Labs or Jenvings Supra HDMI cables. Basically the $100-$300 range.
One HDMI will go from a Fios HD Cable Box to my T.V. (Sony 65Z9D full LED backlit - Sony’s top of the line through 2020).
The other HDMI will go from an Oppo UDP-205 to the TV.
Thanks in advance. I’m very much looking forward to the knowledge and experiences you have to share!
- ...
- 22 posts total
@agisthos Thank you. I did buy a A few Mapleshade products 4 years ago, including their top of the line Golden Helix Speaker Wire, an HDMI cable, and their antistatic brush. I love the speaker wire performance, and it now resides in my secondary system feeding the front mains. The antistatic brush, imo, is the very best in the business, which directly grounds static to the grounding input of a home receptacle. The HDMI cable however, I did return. I have no doubt that a proper sample would work well, especially given your personal observations, however the one I received had an exceedingly tight grip from either being misshaped or just blatantly too small. It was unusually difficult to engage onto the HDMI port of my preamp. Upon plugging it in and observing the pic on my tv of scenes I was very familiar with, I noticed extreme blurring of tree leaves in certain locations of my screen, where definition should have existed. In then trying to disconnect the cable from my preamp, I had to use a pair of pliers, and it literally pulled the port so hard it was bowing out the entire rear panel of the pre, which would involve pulling the entire mother board within the panel. Unfortunately I'm a hard pass on that product after that experience. |
- 22 posts total