HudsonSoft Turbo Controller fix

[fredJ]

I try to avoid the cheapest ones but not sure how  useful it is to shop for the most expensive ones , gold plated and shielded.

keep trying, it's good - cheapest one have almost no shield and wires are so tiny. For that sort of cables i have big bucket in the corner of my shack. I buying  cables in a bulk from secondhand shop, so once i stripped top insulation i can say will it go to live in the mod or will make "last flight" to the bucket(should post some photos here). Sometimes i am lucky and can get real Panasonic/JVC/Sony japanese made cables for only 100yen. Main difference - they are more robust.

gold plated

i thought to comment this first, but deleted LOL Just stay away from audiophilic crap and you will be fine.

On the left side cable i dug out from "big bucket" - you can see(if you can ) shields wires have oxydation and insulation of the core does not match in color. On the right side is right cable, where the core is much thicker and shield is shield. Also RCA connectors are more robust

Okay, thanks. That's what I suspected.
You are suggesting it isn't necessary to buy the most expensive ones? Just stay away from the cheapest.
Gold plated matters or not? I don't know.

[sconley666]

Yeah, high quality cable with solid ends, no matter what the application is always best.  The only real reason you want extra heavy duty cable is if you are constantly pluggin/unplugging things, or you are hard on cables.  Being that I have a hobby that makes an entire room look like a snake pit if I am not careful, I have to use big thick well shielded cables.  They sound better, hold up better, etc etc.

I don't however believe in gold cable.  And MOST monster cables are overpriced for what people use them for.  I use all Monster Cable in my guitar rig, but it was made to tour with and be setup and torn down every night.  The cables are still like new years later.  I have trashed a good number of cables in my day.  But people that go out and spend $100 on an HDMI gold plated monster cable that is seriously 3ft long, and then hook it up to the tv and never touch it again, most likely could buy a cable that will look and perform as well for a lot less.  Obviously you still don't want shit.

SHIT ALWAYS EQUALS SHIT.  PERIOD.

[Drakon]

hdmi is a digital signal cable quality shouldn't make any difference.

[sconley666]

Touche sir,  true, analog is really where the difference is.  I just used HDMI as an example, albeit a poor one! 

[Drakon]

Yeah analog it CAN make a difference but I learned that the signal quality from the source also makes a big difference.  I mean most analog signals are only travelling 6 to 12 feet so you usually won't lose much quality over that distance unless the source is very weak.

[sconley666]

Yeah analog it CAN make a difference but I learned that the signal quality from the source also makes a big difference.  I mean most analog signals are only travelling 6 to 12 feet so you usually won't lose much quality over that distance unless the source is very weak.

Absolutely.  The source is a HUGE factor.  You can have something that puts out amazing sound/video but it can be "bottlenecked" or have the quality degraded by the cable.  That being said, I think that a lot of people don't really understand that because the other way around, if you have a shitty quality source and put a $50 cable  in the mix, it's not going to make a difference in the slightest.  You are only ever going to be a good (quality-wise) as your weakest component.

In a perfect world when using cables or wiring of any type, the goal is to go for "true" quality.  No signal boosting or degradation of any type.  In an audio application, if you have a good/great amp your are going to want your speakers to be true/flat so that the actual sound of the amp is what you hear not an "equalized" version of the amp due to what frequencies are boosted/cut by the speaker itself.  Same thing goes for the cable, if you use a poor quality cable you are going to loose highs or lows and may even get the mid range frequencies all "muddy" sounding.

I can only assume that this principle works in the realm of video as well.
Digital is where stuff starts getting beyond my true scope of comprehension.  The only digital audio type equipment I have ever used would be analog to digital interfaces used for recording music.  Where you would mic up an amp send the signal into the interface and it converts the signal from analog to digital via either firewire or lightpipe going into a computer.  (used mainly in a ProTools application on a Mac)

But I digress...this is about video games. 

[Drakon]

I've never believed in pricey cables I mean a cheap cable shouldn't effect a signal if it's only travelling a dozen feet.