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I wonder if a smaller version could be implemented for use in a dingy or life raft. I have heard stories of people lost a drift at sea for months and I could see how this propulsion could be a life saver.

Comments from ‘dontbother’ are correct. What we hear from a digital signal is a numerically created emulation of a sound wave. Binary info for each time frame is sent as a number representing an amplitude value of a wave. Degrees of variance determined by bit size I.E. (8,16,32,64). An 8 bit would have 255 levels and a 64 bit would have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 levels (Variance:2^(bits)). This is where the quality of the signal is determined and remains. If we hear ANYTHING the resembled the original transmission (this verifying mere transmission only) than it must be transmitting the full signal. With this transmission delivery system, it is impossible to detect aural transmission degradation because it is an on-off issue, there is no loss. We can no more here a difference in this than you can hear the color blue. Because of this, ‘FrankBoston’ must have some merit of truth to his comment. I believe it is difficult to create a new, un-biased belief when we observe that the sum of the parts make up the whole and if the individual parts are better, the whole is somehow not better. Gold is a better conductor than silver or copper and resists corrosion. Gold may have a higher resistance to electricity ratio, but as ‘mje’ pointed out, that is only an issue if they were solid gold and these are merely plated with negligible resistance. The thing is (in digital), if I hear it, it is making contact. If it is making contact, a signal is received and the cables role is defined as ‘functional’, having no loss. Analog and manufacturing quality comments are dead on guys! Shielding, sufficient gauge, and adequate mfr techniques (good solder) are sufficient. As for longevity of any cables I look at like this: I could buy 27 replacement HDMI cables @$8/ea or 8 replacement cables @$25/ea instead of buying Monster’s $220.00 HDMI cable. Either way, I would probably have enough HDMI cables to last me to the end of my life.