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@jasonp@... article is about analog signal, not digital ones. You don't have degrading signal/noise ratio in digital signal. If available bandwidth is exceeded by what you try to put through, and if your protocol is not adaptative, you start losing signal. Either you lose everything or you lose chunks of it, Usually that is very obvious in the result ( visible or audible artefacts ). A better cable will mean you can have a longer one before experiencing signal loss. If your source is far from your destination, you can think about investing in more expensive cables. If you are in an environment full of interference sources and if you experience data loss, you can go for shiedled cables, but investing into monster cables of all sort does not have the same benefi as in analog signal. Most of the time it's a complete loss of money on no ground.
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