On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:56:06 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

Anyway, up 'till I took some half decent phono cables (Qunex, IIRC) down
last night he's been using it with a red/white/yellow bootlace cable on
Component Video. We swapped the cables last night and *kaboom* - wot a
difference!! Much, much sharper, if nothing else!

Yes, you'd reasonably expect that. A red/white/yellow cable is a
crappy device intended for connecting stero audio and composite video,
and is most certainly *not* suitable for component video, where you
should be using three 75-ohm cables of the same length.

OK, I know this is video and not audio (don't even know if Component Out is
analogue or digital!) but if this upgrade could much such an improvement,
surely the same goes for audio information? (I might be a bit lost
discerning nuances in sound quality differences but I got no problem with
visuals!)

No, the same does *not* go for audio. Component video is analogue,
unlike HDMI and DVI, which are digital. Analogue video signals run up
to 1,000 times higher in frequency than audio, which not surprisingly
makes a difference. You can easily tell differences among video
cables, but no one has *ever* been able to prove an ability to *hear*
differences among cables.

Also I would mention that there was/is no significant difference in picture
quality between a £40 Chy Knees DVD** (daren't say Chinky any more!! :-)
and a much more expensive Japper Knees machine (Sony 725 or summat
similar).....

There are detectable video differences among DVD players, but
presumably these aren't two of them! :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering