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Good question. I use the Total Contact Graphene contact enhancer. I applied a very very thin coat of the product to both the ground surface on the HDMI plug and to the tiny pins of the cable, which is not as risky as it appears and easy done with the tiny brush applicator. If two surfaces adjoin only one surface needs to be painted. Just don’t load up on coffee beforehand. ☕️
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Right on que, after I used the word beginners. 🤡 |
You get what you pay for. Cheap HDMI cables are for folks who aren’t really into the whole audio or video thing. For those with more uh, high end aspirations I recommend going whole hog. 🐷 I bought Audioquest Carbon HDMI cables used for $100. The new line of Audioquest HDMI cables are “controlled for directionality” like all of their cables and power cords. Not for beginners.
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Good good one, Zippy! You’re on 🔥 today.
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👨🚀gdhal
^Actually, this appears to be par-for-the-course. You know, GK states the impossible and/or incorrect, then someone - anyone - corrects you, and then GK fires back with name calling and so forth.
>>>>>I never once called anyone a name. Twice, maybe. Besides I do the difficult everyday. The impossible just takes a little longer, cowpoke. 🤠
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This appears to nothing more than The Revenge of the Nerds Pt. 2. gdhal, just curious, have you given any thought to going back and getting your GED? Hey, guys, if you don’t have the experience and you don’t have the technical chops, whaddya got? You got nothin’.
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No, I never considered that I could be wrong. Why would I? That’s the advantage of knowing you’re right. Have you ever considered that you actually don’t know what the heck directionality is? 😬 There’s no need to answer. It’s a rhetorical question.
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costco_emoji, since you obviously don’t know what directionality is, it’s not without considerable humor, unintentional though it might be, that you take such a hard line against directionality. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?
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Wow! Costco-emoji, all this time here and you still don’t know what the term directionality means? Get with the program! Think of it as just like directionality in fuses in the AC circuit or directionality in AC power cords. Directionality applies to all wire, even wire in HDMI cables and power cords, even teeny tiny wires in ribbon connectors... all wire. Hel-loo!
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I would not say the cost is an overriding factor but I would not buy an inexpensive HDMI cable, meaning the ones sold in Target. I bought an Audioquest Carbon HDMI Cable used for a hundred bucks used and it’s fabulous. The Carbon like the other high end HDMI cables in the Audioquest lineup, are controlled for directionality, just like all their other high end cables and power cords. Accept no substitutes.
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costco_emoji, not that you’re aware of, anyway. Hee, hee. Perhaps there’s a library near you. I suggest a visit. Maybe more than one visit.
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Case solved. There are no differences between cables! Horray! Break out the campaigne! 🥂 Many thanks to costco_emoji. (We won’t talk about other tests where there were huge differences.)
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Yuk, yuk! 🤡
You might consider looking around for some new material. That one’s been used for power cords that are controlled for directionality already. |
I have excellent results with the Audioquest Carbon HDMI Cable, one of their newer HDMI cables controlled for directionality and with silver content in the connectors. I am using the Carbon with my new LG HDTV and LG Blu Ray player. Spectacular picture. I am also using contact enhancer on the pins and ground.
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Watching Lawrence of Arabia on my new LG Smart TV using the Audioquest Carbon HDMI cable I mentioned earlier. You know, one of the ones controlled for directionality. Spectacular color, very film like. And this is just the exclusive limited edition DVD. 😛 |
I’m starting to get a bad feeling.
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I just bought a previously owned Audioquest Carbon HDMI Cable, 5% silver connectors and controlled for directionality, very high on my list of priorities. |
