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<blockquote data-quote="JimJ" data-source="post: 7594101" data-attributes="member: 555251">When I was in commercial A/V, we went through boxes of Monoprice-sourced DisplayPort cables that had faulty connectors. To the point where our engineers banned them from every bill of materials they could find //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif You&#039;re definitely right, sometimes sourcing for a price point has its downsides. But their RCAs seemed to hold up.How much are you willing to spend?I&#039;m partial to the idea of separating the equipment out into multiple components, as they tend to be built to a higher standard - so you&#039;d have an integrated amp plus a tuner, or no tuner at all if you don&#039;t listen to the radio. But that costs much more than a typical Best Buy receiver does.As far as HDMI cables go, you can go with something basic like Extron (used a ton of them, never had any faults), or if you have a ton of cash to burn something like Blue Jeans (I happen to like their RCA interconnects, but they aren&#039;t cheap).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimJ, post: 7594101, member: 555251"] When I was in commercial A/V, we went through [I]boxes[/I] of Monoprice-sourced DisplayPort cables that had faulty connectors. To the point where our engineers banned them from every bill of materials they could find [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] You're definitely right, sometimes sourcing for a price point has its downsides. But their RCAs seemed to hold up. How much are you willing to spend? I'm partial to the idea of separating the equipment out into multiple components, as they tend to be built to a higher standard - so you'd have an integrated amp plus a tuner, or no tuner at all if you don't listen to the radio. But that costs much more than a typical Best Buy receiver does. As far as HDMI cables go, you can go with something basic like Extron (used a ton of them, never had any faults), or if you have a ton of cash to burn something like Blue Jeans (I happen to like their RCA interconnects, but they aren't cheap). [/QUOTE]

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