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Mapleshade Vivilink HDMI Cable with Plus Upgrade

by John Sunier | Jul 8, 2012 | Component Reviews

Mapleshade Vivilink HDMI Cable with Plus Upgrade SRP: $165, 2 meter length Mapleshade 871 North Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201 410-685-4618 www.mapleshadestore.com [audaud-hr] Well, I have to retract my previous advice on this site that with HDMI cables there is one of the few cable areas where you are getting fleeced if you pay high prices for premium high-end HDMI cables instead of getting the $10 ones online, which I said are just fine. I haven’t A/B’ed the $10 ones with the premium cables from the cable biggies—perhaps there’s little difference. But the difference with Mapleshade’s new high-end HDMI cable was easily seen. I’ve had some very bad luck with HDMI cables recently. Two of them went out simultaneously, and I was thinking it was my equipment rather than the cables. One was even what seemed to be the excellent short HDMI cable Oppo furnishes with their players. At the same time I have a video display of greater resolution and detail than my previous RPTV, and I’m following the advice of Pierre Sprey at Mapleshade to run the Oppo BPS-95 directly into my Panasonic plasma display rather than thru my Integra 80.3 multichannel preamp. (By the way, I hope […]