[TVDX]

For best performance, can anyone recommend any?.

[Binternet]

I know some purists will shoot me down for this, but i use regular gold plated phono leads from dixons, £10. I have used the super leads that cost lots more and can hear no difference at all. Unless you have an uber expensive system i would suggest you save yourself the money.

[TVDX]

My main worry is a strange output sound emitted from my DVD recorder, the Phillips DVDR70.

When you press stop or play or skip track or even the monitor button its almost like the sound is cut off momentarily and there is a loud popping sound coming from the speakers for a second.
Using the same lead from a different DVD player and there is no sound like that.
I feel that i need high quality leads that are shielded and maybe that will somehow stop this strange sound.

[Brush Master]

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Originally Posted by TVDX

My main worry is a strange output sound emitted from my DVD recorder, the Phillips DVDR70.

When you press stop or play or skip track or even the monitor button its almost like the sound is cut off momentarily and there is a loud popping sound coming from the speakers for a second.
Using the same lead from a different DVD player and there is no sound like that.
I feel that i need high quality leads that are shielded and maybe that will somehow stop this strange sound.

Look mate: it's a digital output you're talking, and from a RF standpoint of view, even a pretty low frequency one. My gutt feeling is that the "purists' quality digital audio cable" stuff is quite simply a rip-off with absolutely no technical justification.

I could imagine your player generating the disturbing noises. I find it hard to believe this is caused by a cable, but if so, I can only think of two reasons: your cable is broken (poor soldering or crimp contact), or it has the wrong impedance (it is not suiteable for digital output).

[chrisjr]

I do sometimes wonder where I can get these mysterious cables with in-built DSP chips that a certain HiFi mag seems to test regularly. For instance how on earth does a simple bit of wire do the complex maths required to affect the stereo image and/or frequency response that they claim to be able to hear?

All you require is a phono to phono lead with 75ohms impedance cable. As long as the one's and zero's of the source data stream arrive without degredation at the destination there is NOTHING else that the cable can do to affect the sound. All it can do is make the destination device unable to destinguish between a one and zero bit. And since that will be essentially random the last thing it will do is produce "a sweeter more open treble or midrange" which is what I've read some digital cables can do

The sound you describe is quite simply a poor bit of design on the part of the DVD recorder manufacturers. All it is is the digital output not muting when it changes mode. This basically leads to a garbage data stream being produced and as you have discovered when digital goes wrong it goes wrong big time! Changing the cable will have no effect whatsoever on the noise as the cable isn't the source of the problem.