Gun Counter ignorance is not just in the gun store. Name some other examples.

[Delfuego]

Ever try to buy a snowboard from a shop???

Please explain the difference. Only conceivable difference I can think of is EM shielding between the strands, but everybody does that nowadays... even the $3 cable from monoprice.

HDMI cables are "digital". Traffic is protocol driven and there would not be shit for difference in either other than materials and quality control.

Speaker cable on the other hand in a big F'n difference. There is a reason some speaker wires cost $100 per foot. You can hear the difference if you are an audiophile and have the gear...

[Rucker61]

Ever try to buy a snowboard from a shop???


HDMI cables are "digital". Traffic is protocol driven and there would not be shit for difference in either other than materials and quality control.

Speaker cable on the other hand in a big F'n difference. There is a reason some speaker wires cost $100 per foot. You can hear the difference if you are an audiophile and have the gear...

Which is why studios use Mogami and Canare at much less than $100 a foot.

[brutal]

This is why I buy all my digital cables from monoprice.com With a digital signal it is all 1s and 0s. There is no quality gradient here... Like you said: it either works or it doesn't. Bonus: Since you can buy a 12ft HDMI cable from monoprice for $3 plus about $3 shipping, you might as well buy 2 "just in case". That being said, I've ordered hundreds of dollars of cables, parts, speakers, etc from them and I've never received anything from them that didn't work as expected right out of the box.

Much like concealed=concealed, digital=digital. Build quality=durability does have some merit.

Granted there is a difference between a higher end HDMI cable and the basic Wal-mart brand, but it's really not huge at all... It's not like the difference between a $200 1911 and a Nighthawk Custom.

^^ see above. ^^ Costco cables are built by Audioquest. Definite hit.

Please explain the difference. Only conceivable difference I can think of is EM shielding between the strands, but everybody does that nowadays... even the $3 cable from monoprice.

Again, my response agrees.

F' the monster cable snobs!

Monster cable is a despicable company. Want a good read? Check out the Blue Jeans cable response to their lawsuit. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/

But the Monster cable is so pretty, and you're going to need that durability when you bug out with the Xbox!

I actually read a reputable study once where Monster speaker wire was compared with electrical wire (think wiring a table lamp) and the electrical wire came out on top in all categories.

Ever try to buy a snowboard from a shop???


HDMI cables are "digital". Traffic is protocol driven and there would not be shit for difference in either other than materials and quality control.

Speaker cable on the other hand in a big F'n difference. There is a reason some speaker wires cost $100 per foot. You can hear the difference if you are an audiophile and have the gear...

Which is why studios use Mogami and Canare at much less than $100 a foot.

For speaker wire, a coat hanger will beat just about anything at the same length. Zip cord > Monster. Check out DIY White Lightning Moonshine. That's my speaker cable of choice. I'd challenge anyone to tell the difference, double blind test, between one I built for $20 vs. any esoteric bullshit. I build my own interconnects using Canare cable.

My biggest gripe is listening to hound!!! blahahahahahaha macs suck!

SATA 10k rpm drives vs SSD.
IBM vs SUN
HP vs Dell
Ford vs chevy
Dodge vs everything else (for a farm truck)

And the worst one i've ever had to witness was International vs Case vs John Deere when all 3 reps where at my uncles farm right before harvest.

Whatever tool works best for the job at hand.

SSD > SAS>FC>SCSI>SATA for batch and OLTP workloads (enterprise) it's the algorithm that places hot data that matters.
IBM Power is > Sun
HP vs Dell - don't care, X/AMD is not a real processor ;-)
Dodge uber alles

Juan's Deer (Burro) trumps all.

[Ronin13]

Dodge uber alles

Nuff said right there!
Ran into another one last night- "Islam is a religion of peace." Said by a gal who was raised Southern Baptist and is now Presbyterian.