Recent Home Theater Cable Articles
HDMI 2.2 — Everything We Know So Far

The HDMI Forum held a press conference at CES 2025 to announce the new HDMI 2.2 specification that supports 96Gbps of bandwidth to enable a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates.
Rubbing the Snake Oil Out of Speaker Cables

If we purchase expensive and more sophisticated speaker cables, we should expect improve audio reproduction, right? Digital audio, amplifier and speaker technology is now very sophisticated, and just …
Skin Effect Relevance in Speaker Cables

Skin Effect is a real problem in high frequency E&M; transmission but does it matter in speaker cables at audio frequencies? This article explores that very topic.
The Truth About Spiral Shield Cables

Normally when a spiral shield is used on a cable it is for one of three reasons, increased flexibility, ease of termination, or reduced manufacturing costs...
Top Ten Signs an Audio Cable Vendor is Selling You Snake Oil

this is a top 10 list of snake oil scams often seen with consumer audio speaker and interconnect cables. Update includes testing of Audioquest 72VDC DBS system.
Transmission Line Effects in Video Cables

We established a pretty good foundation of the important metrics governing component video cables in our Component Video Cable Definitive Guide article. However, we recently stumbled on some very …
SilverSmith Audio Cables Interview

Jeffrey Smith from SilverSmith Audio was nice enough to engage in an informative interview about his cable philosophies and the "science" behind them...
Audio Cables ‑ Science or Religion?

Audiophile cables are surrounded by slick marketing designed to convince audiophiles that they will improve the sound of their hifi system. We discuss the myths and what really matters in cables.
Cable Distortion and Dielectric Biasing Debunked

This article explains the concept of distortion and whether or not cables can exhibit non linear behavior to produce it.
Cross Coax Cables Design vs Zip Cord

There seems to be a trend lately for DIY self proclaimed audio gurus to design alternative speaker cable designs using Coax cables (namely Belden 89259). While their efforts should be applauded, they …
Skin Effect Interview with Dr. Howard Johnson

Although this may seem to be a trivial matter to you, many audio cable vendors and forum cults enjoy spreading fallacies about skin effect and "strand jumping" on speaker cables and interconnects. I …
Component Video Cables ‑ The Definitive Guide

Component video cables are a key interconnect element to any Home Theater System. To better understand how these 75-ohm cables can affect a video signal from a DVD player, it is helpful to cover some …