One of the best HDMI cable?

If you are searching for high speed hdmi cable then SF Cable is the best option where all kind of hdmi cable types (premium hdmi cable, 4k hdmi cable, long hdmi cables, hdmi lead, best hdmi cables, hdmi wire, hdmi cord, etc) available in various lengths.

The FIBRR will do over 100-200ft if required. it converts HDMI to fibre at the head and back again at the end. It is single directional though, so no ARC yet.

What I would suggest is till today I have used manny HDMI cables but the most flexible and convincible is one which I bought here.

Hdmi Cables

@shivpandey  Can you share the cables you compared it to? And general findings / differences? Thanks.

After a quiet small survey I choose this Hdmi cables and its one of the best I have ever tried till now so you can also try over it.
To try out : www.sfcable.com

I just purchased the Wireworld Starlight Usb 2.0 A to B and the Wireworld Starlight 7 Hdmi. Both outstanding and fairly priced!

@geoffkait 
Thanks for your prompt follow-up re contact enhancer brand and application. Appreciated it!

I have so many HDMI cables in my system: (1) CATV box to HDTV; (2) Oppo DVD Blu-ray player to HDTV; (3) Apple TV to connector switch box; (4) Xbox 1 to connector switch box; (5) connector switch box to HDTV. Ugh....

I guess any higher grade cable would go between the Oppo DVD Blue-ray player and the HDTV. 

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. ☕️

@geoffkait 
I checked out the audioquest HDMI website to check out the Carbon cable. Interesting choice. Thanks for the tip. What contact enhancer are you using on the plugs? How is it applied, ousitde surface only or both inside and outside surfaces?

Translation?

FīBBR Tech HDMI v2.0b Ultra Pro Active Fiber Optical Cables up to 160m.

Right on que, after I used the word beginners. 🤡

^^^^^^^
Snake oil.....

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. 

Thank you all for chiming in with the HDMI brand suggestions. I just returned a $26 USB 2.0   A to B cable that runs from my Mac Mini to my dac and got a $5 one off from Amazon and I swear the expensive one sounds better. The cheap one is awful in my opinion. I just looked up Wireworld on amazon for the USB 2.0   A to B and they've got one for a $100. It's probably pretty good. Comments please. Thanks

Good good one, Zippy! You’re on 🔥 today.

geoffkait, sorry, your time to respond expired... like a blown fuse ... 💣

👨‍🚀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. 🤠

Is wireworld good for gaming on Xbox? 

^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.

Do remember that *by your own admission*, you are the "king of fiction". Therefore, you are admitting nothing that you write has any truth what-so-ever. And, you've already requested "help" in another thread. I do feel bad for you that, apparently, to date you don't seem to be getting the help you so desperately need. 

And, to stay completely on thread topic, I could ask if you are you familiar with maps, geography and so forth. I ask because that is what's returned when searching for "direction" on this site. https://www.hdmi.org/index.aspx

Maybe maps are the directionality you're referring to? 🤔

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’.

phillyb - Never fall for big $$$$ HDMI. If the cables is designed proper you Will not see a difference between $20.00 cable or a $500.00 HDMI. I owned many and I speak from experience. BlueJean HDMI are as good as any regardless of price.

+1

@gdhal 

I applaud your honesty and recognizing your error! 

@geoffkait 

Come to think about it, I made a mistake. I asked you if you ever think its you who are wrong and there is no such thing as wire directionality. I should have asked if you ever think.  😄

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.

@geoffkait 

Just an observation.... in your mind no one other than you knows about wire directionality. Ever think its you who are wrong and there is no such thing? 

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?

I don't believe in myths like that. Most people don't. It's absurd. If there was a way to make a wire directional you can bet somebody would have done it by now. Signal reflection in high speed buses has been a technical challenge for decades. That's generally the prime limiting factor in the speed of any digital bus. If there was any truth to your mythology the well proven methods of tuning wires and electrically measuring coax would fall apart. You preach hogwash. 

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!

@geoffkait 
Well that's just plain stupid. HDMI is a bi-directional packet-based serial interface. You don't want any directionality in the wire. 

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.

Never fall for big $$$$ HDMI. If the cables is designed proper you Will not see a difference between $20.00 cable or a $500.00 HDMI. I owned many and I speak from experience. BlueJean HDMI are as good as any regardless of price. 

Whatever... You're just making it up. HDMI features ECC at the protocol layer. It either works or it doesn't. I can kind of understand people getting weird about their USB cables since USB has no QoS at the protocol layer, but HDMI transports data similarly to SAS with a different ECC scheme. 

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. 

Of course we won't talk about them because they don't exist. 

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.)

Funny.... I was watching a comparison of some $1000 Wired world HDMI cable and a cable that came in the box with some other piece of gear and the guy couldn't find ANY difference in performance piping graphics off his computer to his display at the fastest refresh rates and highest resolutions. Linus Tech Tips. Go watch it and save!

Awhile back, I mentioned the Jensen CATV filter. I had a pair of Mapleshade Vivilink 2+ at the time and initially had problems using them with the Oppo 203. At the time, I and those on the Oppo owners forum thought it a 1.4 vs. 2.0 problem. I don’t know if firmware updates or changing cable boxes fixed it, but by the time I got them back from Mapleshade, they worked. That led me to compare them with decent store bought and Monoprice cables, and I couldn’t see a difference. That’s testament to the Jensen filter (I wouldn’t think it applies to OTA, but don’t know). That’s video only. The best audio I’ve heard from both cable TV and Oppo, both via a DirectStream dac, are the silver cables formerly sold by PS Audio.

(Suggestion to Mapleshade owners: If something needs return for technical support, ignore what it says on their website and always send it through the main location, not directly to Pierre S. That way it’s recorded in their system and they feel responsible. I didn’t, and had to threaten to go to the MD Attorney General to get the main office’s full attention and my cables back from Pierre seven months later.)

I purchased, and then returned a set of Mapleshade Plus HDMI and digital  coax about a year ago.  The connector fit was extremely loose on the HDMI and caused digital boxes to form in a scene displaying a treeline, where my other HDMIs did not.  There was obvious fuzziness in certain spots of various scenes.  The digital coax was the exact opposite.  Its fit was FAR too tight, and it transmitted no signal.   Again, where my other coaxs had no issue.  Obvious quality controls issues at Mapleshade.  I did keep their  Clearview double helix plus speaker wire and antistatic brush, which have both been excellent at  their price point.  I reverted to the MC Ultra black HDMI,  which is no joke excellent, but I could not recommend at their retail price.   Bought them cheap at auction.

The monoprice hdmi cables that were supposed to pass 4K HDR were causing the video to drop out periodically. They worked fine on 1080p but not 4K. Switched to Nordost Heimdall 4K and now have no problem.  These were 3m cables.

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.

...one of their newer HDMI cables controlled for directionality...

Have you tried one direction or the other to see/hear for differences? If so, please report back your findings. Thanks.

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.

I have just now found few good quality HDMI cables and ordered amazon High-Speed HDMI Cable. The cable is capable to support bandwidth up to 18Gbps.

I have another observation - most UHD players and even OPPO 105 have separate outputs for HDMI video 4K and audio. In theory it is done to support older receivers/processors, which do not have 4K pass-through. In practice it has a lot of other applications and implications, but in my experience separating audio signal (it does send video as well, but  lower resolution) from video yealds a touch better sound for concert disks, May be it is a placebo effect, dunno,

CATV isolators almost a must - cable and dish companies often use separate grounding (as well as roof OTA antenna) for safety reasons, and as result unavoidable ground loops and hum of various degree. So I would install it no matter what. The only issue is dish, powered by receiver - then you will have to install separate power supply for your antenna, as isolator will break low volt signal coming from receiver to dish. Satellite service provider installed separate power for me for free by my request.

@highstream   Have you tried your cable box isolator with OTA signals? Wondering if you have and whether there is any upside? Thanks.