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I'm looking at the Kimber Digital X to hook up my dvd player but am concerned that it's unshielded. Kimber says that their braid rejects RF/EMI interferance but I want to hear from some inmates who have actually used their digital i/c's. Should I even be concerned about this?Thanks,
Shane
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The braided design does cut back on much of the RFI. The phone company uses a semi-braided design (actually a "twisted pair" method). Some people do their own wiring from the ONI (the box outside of your house where the wire comes off of the pole) with regular wire and then complain that there's noise (lots of RFI) on the line (DUH!). Kimber takes the twisted pair method a little further by weaving the signal and ground wires together tightly. I have used ADGL, PBJ and Silver Streak and have had no RFI problems on analog or digital end. As with all components, cables, etc., the BEST thing to do is to try it in YOUR system. By the way, "true" 75-ohm cables/connectors are seldom 75 ohms. What makes (some!) better cables better is the lack of reflections inside the cable. WidescreenReview magazine did a test of $$$ video cables and $ video cables about 2 years ago and the results were surprising and enlightening (to say the least!). You MAY be able to find it in the archives (widescreenreview.com). Hope this helps.
All Kimber cables, no matter what they market the cable as, seem to share similar designs, in particular, the unshielded, braided design.I recently hooked up my DVD player's component outputs to my DTV's component input using three 0.5m Kimber Silver Streak *audio* interconnects and found that they worked rather well, surprisingly. In fact, I thought that it worked better than the true 75ohm RCA-terminated video cables I was using before. I could see no RF interference artifacts, which indicated to me that their braided design does, in fact, reject RF interference pretty well.
I assume same could hold true for digital connections.
Save your money for an upgrade that acomplishes something. RF interfearence is NOT AN ISSUE WITH A DIGITAL connection. If it was, no PC on the planet would work.
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