RE: Sound hardware question..

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> > I doubt if a coathanger would work, but it might :)
>
> Interestingly, ISTR a conversation at the may meet with Phil
> about some guy in the states selling the ultimate digital
> cable, which *was* a coathanger with a bit of cable on each
> end to plug into the source & amp. I'm with you in thinking
> that digital is either there or not there.  Makes you wonder
> why they can get away with selling 'digital' cables....

Yup ... I've long since lost the URL which is a shame because it was a
great piss-take but the long and the short of it is that the guy decided to see just how rugged SPDIF down coax was and so he took a Sony S7000
DVD player (a very early player but one which is still unequalled in
some areas as it doesn't have "the chroma bug") and borrowed a Do= lby
Digital decoder from work which would actually give a proper analysis of data errors and produce a printout of the same as a test report.

He first off started with a cheapo zip cord interconnect that you get
with pretty much any audio component and can probably pick up from
Maplin for less than =A31 ... After sitting through an entire movie the
decoder was showing zero unrecoverable and (IIRC) zero recoverable bit
data errors over the duratin of the movie.

He then cut the cable in half, stripped back the insulation and
shielding, soldered the bare ands to opposite ends of an untwisted wire
coathanger and did the same test again with the same results.

He then advertised the cable - complete with coathanger "insert" = - for
sale on the internet for $1,300 as, as he said, he could certify that it was error free and actually produce a detailed report and analysis that
would support his claim and how many of the off the shelf cables - even
high end ones - can offer that?

Phil

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