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Monster Cable score

There are lots of products that are a complete rip off when new but are a good buy at a low enough price. Monster cable being one of them. Playstation games are another good example. When a new game comes out they are around $60 (I am a Call Of Duty nut) but wait a few months and you can pick them up for $15. Let the early adopters pay out the nose for something then score a good deal by waiting a while. I laugh my ass off when I see the lemmings standing in line for a new iPhone etc.
 
BillWojo said:
Ya got me Moe. Glad to see you contribute to society in a useful way, hope your not mad at me for insinuating that you were a politician.

BillWojo
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It's all good man! It takes a lot more than that to get me mad. I deserved it anyway. Sometimes I should just keep my yap shut. Sorry to bother you buddy.
 
All my Monster's are M-1000s and I have zero issues with them other then the occasional deathgrip because a component has a slightly larger RCA connection, other components I have slide right on easily. I think the problem is more that there is not a consistent RCA jack size across the many brands
 
I've bought several sets of Monster component video cables on the used market, usually for only a couple of bucks. I peel one of the cables (usually the green one) off from the set, and use the remaining two with my RCA jack-equipped turntables. I have no idea if they really do anything for the audio signals, but they seem to do fine with the low-level signal, and look nice while doing so. I recently picked up a set of Monster cables which seem to be intended for phono use (has an integrated ground wire, different from the 'blue thread' mentioned elsewhere in this thread); it should be interesting to compare this cable to the component video cables I've been using.
-Adam
 
AdamAnt316 said:
I've bought several sets of Monster component video cables on the used market, usually for only a couple of bucks. I peel one of the cables (usually the green one) off from the set, and use the remaining two with my RCA jack-equipped turntables. I have no idea if they really do anything for the audio signals, but they seem to do fine with the low-level signal, and look nice while doing so. I recently picked up a set of Monster cables which seem to be intended for phono use (has an integrated ground wire, different from the 'blue thread' mentioned elsewhere in this thread); it should be interesting to compare this cable to the component video cables I've been using.
-Adam
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Comcast used to give out some awesome cables for HD boxes before HDMI was not fully on the market and I still see them in the thrift stores......I do the same thing, just peel the green one off and one has a great set of cables.
 
Everything I have purchased from Monster has been pretty high quality and has aged very well. I have interconnects from the 1990's that work as well as new and some of that Navajo White speaker cable a dozen years ago that while the jacket has yellowed a bit the copper is still bright and shiny, even the stripped ends.

I don't buy into the hype, and I dislike the corporate sue "anybody who uses the word monster or any of it's letters in any combination", but the products I have are well made and worth what I have paid for them.
 
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