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Brilliant. Blue Jeans Cables is a plucky company. I've regarded them quite well in the past, and now even more so. I think I know where I'm buying my next set o

• SwellJoe 19y ago
  If it's for digital devices, your next set of cables ought to be the cheapest ones you can find that meet the spec that you'd like them to support. It is pointless to buy fancy cables--in digital, it either meets the spec and works, or it doesn't meet the spec and fails to work. More than 10 bucks for pretty much any short-run cable would be nuts. HDMI 1.3 spec (the kind that'll carry 1080p and even higher) cables can easily be found for under 10 bucks. Even in analog signals, a quality pure copper cable of sufficient gauge with quality connectors put together correctly, is all that matters. All of the BS from Monster Cables (and other "boutique" cable vendors) has clouded the market with ridiculous nonsense. Blue Jeans Cables appears to eschew that nonsense, and build quality "normal" cables. They are a little pricey, but not terrible, I guess...maybe two to six times the price I'd pay, vs. the 10 to 100 times Monster charges. What amuses me is that if you were to buy one of the "low end" Monster cables (which are relatively small gauge), it would perform measurably worse than bulk 10 or 12 gauge copper cabling from an electronic parts outlet and cost significantly more.