can anyone recommend a good SCART cable?

Discussion in 'Hi-Fi and General Audio' started by Hodgesaargh, Dec 3, 2003.

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    michaelab desafinado

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    I'm having deja-vu...see here.

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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    I got a decent scart lead from a backstreet electronics shop in Stockport for £8. It has OFC free cable, it is the 21 pin type rather than just RGB but each cable is really thick. The make was Skytronics. I don't know how good it compared to expensive ones but its much better than the free ones. Colour had better contrast. I don't know about sound as the sound comes out from phonos anyway.
     
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    Yup, don't waste money on anything fancy - got to Maplin and buy a boggo cable. I have tried all kinds of scarts and have yet to find any difference whatsoever.

    I think the problem is the design of the plugs.

    Just my opinion you understand!
     
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    Screening is important, the conductors/connectors are less important.
     
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    Yup, agree about screening but you cannot get over the crap design of the things in the first place!

    I'm one of those smug buggers with a plasma and I use individual high quality runs for R/G/B/S with standard computer video cable from the Sky+ box to the VGA din socket fed from a syncblaster - excellent piece of kit from Keene Electronics.

    Anyway I'm rambling off subject...........

    Dont buy anything more expensive than a QED and even that really has no discernable difference over a boggo cable.....IMHO
     
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