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Thread: You guys buy monster cable? |
    
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| Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 09:06 pm: |
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just curious, do you guys buy into the expensive monster cables? like monster 3? ive got a friend that works at BB and he can get me about 50% off, so at that price, might as well. but does it really make a difference? my whole system is run of S-video (no component inputs, 36" tube). and he thinks i should upgrade all my cheapy s-vid's to monster 3, or at least monster 2.
i know cables is where they make there $$, but even at half off, its still kind of expensive.
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New member Username: Hampshire
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2003
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:45 pm: |
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Only two reasons to buy Moster Cable.
1) Durablity
2) Won't corrode (which does degrade signal)
Otherwise, all the claims of improved this or that are false. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 04:14 pm: |
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so those mid-line Acoustic research cables will do the exact same thing? for like componenet/s-vid/composite? |
New member Username: Hampshire
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2003
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 05:25 pm: |
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AR cables will do the exact same thing, they just aren't as pretty.
I won a bet once with my entire audio sales staff. They swore by Monster 11 gauge speaker cable having superior sound quality.
We used a Yamaha amp, Sony cd player, JBL towers and music of their choice. I used recoton 16 gauge and they used the monster. We had it set up so they could swith back and forth quickly.
They had to listen to 5 seperate tracks clicking back and forth between cables and say "A" is monster "B" is Recoton.
Results were all over the place and no one matched all 5 tracks.
Needless to say, they still push it because they're salesmen. |
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