The point about not buying expensive cables applies to all Home Theater...
I wonder how the folks at Monster Cable can sleep at night - a whole business built on a scam.
I always use www.monoprice.com
You can sometimes get stuff for under 10% of the Monster prices, and with digital hdmi there is *no* difference under 50 feet of wire.
I’m not an electronic engineer, but I was told and read long ago that cables for the OLD home stereo systems benefited from better cables only to a point of diminishing return on performance. I would think the same is true for today. Wire is wire and has not changed much has it?
Monster cables are best known in the audiophile world. There are two rules:
If it sounds good, it must be expensive.
If it's expensive, it must sound good.
Repeat until broke.
Very comforatbly, I’m sure. The sucker industry has its perqs.
Monster Cable is crap. The ends are barely soldered onto the cables, among other things. And the management is arrogant and lawsuit-happy.
Years ago I gave up on an audiophile magazine called "Stereophile" after they published a long review of speaker cables. These guys were so suggestive they have to be good hypnosis subjects. You would not believe all the nuances on sound they attributed to these cables.
Don't get me started on the cable designs themselves, snake oil and voodoo did not begin to describe them.
>>The point about not buying expensive cables applies to all Home Theater...
>>I wonder how the folks at Monster Cable can sleep at night - a whole business built on a scam.
Worth saying again.
Great site that debunks a lot of the myths about speaker wire, that folks like Monster have put out there:
http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm
Great site for cables of all sorts:
http://monoprice.com/home/index.asp