Must Haves: - Our Top Picks of Essential HDMI Cables

HDMI Cables are an essential accessory for any visual displays you own or may treat yourself to this year.  With new technology upgrading TVs to offer higher resolutions and crisper images, the rest of the extras and accessories must similarly upgrade.

Newer HDMI cables run a specification called HDMI 2.0 that improves the bandwidth limit they can carry and allows higher resolution signals to be sent from your sources to your TV. On top of improving the conductors in HDMI cables, there is also an improvement in shielding and protection to prevent the signal from being interfered with by nearby power cables and power supplies.

We have compiled a list of HDMI cables that we recommend for being must-haves:

 

1) QED Performance Ultra High-Speed HDMI Cable

The Performance Premium offers the fantastic picture and sound quality you expect from QED, offering 4K60 UHD, HDR, HDCP2.2, ARC & HDMI 2.0 compliance with premium certification.

The new Performance HDMI cables are QED's most flexible yet. Built on the experience QED has gained from designing their previous e-flex cables, QED has been able to reduce the diameter of this HDMI cable further to improve its flexibility yet maintain its capability to transmit 4K60 video.

The QED Performance Premium HDMI is a super cable for anyone looking to upgrade their basic cables to a quality branded equivalent.

Click here to see the QED Performance Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable

 

2) AudioQuest Carbon 48G HDMI Cable

Over the past 25 years, AudioQuest has had a well-earned reputation as a manufacturer of exceptional award-winning video and audio cables worldwide. AudioQuest has used the finest materials and the highest levels of manufacturing precision to develop its outstanding range of HDMI 2.0 specification cables designed to maximise your audio and video experience.

All Audioquest HDMI cables are constructed with Long-Grain Copper (LGC) conductors with increasing amounts of Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) as you go up their range of cables. The carbon contains 5% PSS to improve the signal flow through the cable.

The AudioQuest Carbon HDMI is a perfect partner for the top-of-the-range TVs for the best picture quality to price ratio.

Click here to see the AudioQuest Carbon HDMI Cable.

 

3) Supra HD5 HDMI Cable

SUPRA launched its first HDMI cable in 2004. Nine years of continuous product development has resulted in the Supra HD5 HDMI, which (according to Supra) is the best HDMI cable on the market, offering HDMI High Speed with Ethernet & 4K resolution. They guarantee that the cable can handle all HDMI signals up to 32m.

The bandwidth in the HD5 (used in all of their HDMI/DVI cables) is 1100MHz, almost four times the specs of HDMI High Speed (340MHz). Some interesting cables are out there claiming to do the job, but only a few are approved for it. SUPRA HDMI is a safe choice.

The Supra HD5 Standard HDMI is a great product offering many different lengths with the specs to carry any signal efficiently.

Click here to see the Supra HD5 Standard HDMI Cable.