Brand Cables for Modded AES?
Which cables do you guy's use for your s-video and stereo modded AES's?
I just got some monster cables for it, but didn't know if it truly matters the brand?
Shielding inside the cable can help, I'm not sure how much though. It's certainly something where people are brainwashed that they have to have expensive Monster cables. For something like s-video, you 2 internal wires, so internal shielding will keep the wires from interfering with each other. A better quality cable might make a little bit of difference, also depends on the quality and size of monitor you are using. If you have a really good monitor, you might get better cables for it.
For the AES, it's far more important what type of video output you use. To get better video than s-video, you would use the DIN RGB output, or an RGB->yuv(component) converter, or mod the AES to output yuv component.
As far as picture quality goes, the outputs go in this order, from worst to best:
1. RF
2. Composite(RCA)
3. s-video
4. Component(yuv)
5. Component(yuv)(with direct RGB mod, and using RGB->yuv converter)
6. RGB
7. RGB(with direct RGB mod)
No.'s 5 and 6 might actually be 6 and 5 respectively, not sure. Component using an RGB->yuv converter on a system with direct RGB mod, might actually be better than the RGB on an AES which hasn't been modded for direct RGB.
looks like i am taking them back to radio shack lol