Palladium posted:

There’s a section of this track where the camera is on Clapton, but you can see drummer Steve Gadd in the background softly playing the snare with brushes. With the old HDMI cables, the sound of the brushes was barely audible; with the ThunderBird 48, the sound of brushes on snare drum was suddenly vivid, alive, and detailed. The new HDMI cables resolved a wealth of low-level detail that was simply missing with the lower-quality HDMI cables. Nathan East’s acoustic bass took on greater clarity and definition, making it easier to hear pitches, and the starts and stops of each note were clarified rather than sounding indistinct and blurred. I could cite other examples, but you get the idea. I had no clue that HDMI cables could sound—or look—so different; the picture quality improved also, with more vivid colors, more apparent dynamic range, and a greater sense of three-dimensionality.