HYDN Designs

After having completed 345s, I have a newfound hatred of interconnect cables "optimized for digital." It's such bullshit to sell us a cable that costs $75 that won't perform any better than a cable my dad bought from RadioShack 20 years ago for a buck fifty.

A 1 is a 1, a 0 is a 0, it doesn't matter how clean or ripple free that bit comes out, the bit value is determined by a threshold anyways. Even if you are placing some sort of modulation on the cable where the analog component may matter, you could always apply channel equalization to it. This is a moot point as no audio/video interconnect protocol uses any modulation to begin with, all data is transmitted serially via Biphase Mark Code or TMDS. The only benefit these "optimized" cables may provide is slightly longer cable runs due to less ISI, but the difference is negligible unless you live in some electromagnetic wasteland.