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MONSTER CABLE SPEAKER CABLE...

Blue Jeans use Belden with Canare termination. For yrs, I've failed to grasp the sense of using "better" mega buck cable than that used to record the music. Also, interconnects should be shielded due to the surfeit of RFI & EMI in our environment, IMO.
 
You guys spend money on cables?

I just untwist the hangers from the dry cleaners...

:D


Most of my speaker cable has been lampcord. I have some generic 'speaker wire' that came from somewhere... I have bought Monster brand instrument cables. I wanted "the best" cables. The inexpensive one was the best of the 3 that I bought. The fancy expensive ones were noisy and had a tendency to stop working.. so you take 'em back for that 'lifetime warranty.' The one that was good was either lost or stolen, the other 2 have been replaced numerous times since around 1996. One cable is probably around 10 years old, the other is about 3. My wife uses the one that's in better shape when she jams with the girls. I use the older one- but only at home, not even for band practice and not gigs. The kicker- the cables I do use and mostly trust- some Conquest Audio cables that I bought a year or two before I got the Monsters.
 
Some of the best interconnects I have seen are the "Amazon Basic" line. I accidentally damaged the LFE RCA input on my Klipsch RW-12 II Subwoofer. A heavy display object I had on top of the Sub' fall behind it and guillotined it. The Blue Jeans Subwoofer cable had a very long Canard RCA plug which the antique Sola Constant Voltage Transformer clipped destroying the RCA plug and busting up,the RCA Jack in the Klipsch's plate amp. I pulled out a very good Amazon Basic Subwoofer cable and realized had it been installed I would not have damaged anything, it does not stick out the couple of inches the Canard plug did.

If you want some really good speaker cable look around for TwinAx cable. This is the old IBM network cable. It looks like RG-8 coax, but it has 2 conductors instead of the single center conductor. If you have an R390A/URR you will be familiar with TwinAx as this receiver uses it for it's balanced antenna feed line.
 
For those of you that can't hear a difference in cables,...perhaps your setup won't let you hear the difference. I hear BIG differences between cables and a change in sound with break-in. :dunno:
By the way...check out this buy> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PV8ZSNA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I think i covered hearing well here link below

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....ale-diamond-10-1-sound-terrible.569496/page-4
I was one of the first monster retailers in the USA, a lady once with two hearing aids wrote and thanked me for selling it to her., sometimes it was just that their oxygen laden cable had gone green, some of the first monster had oxygen in it, it would go green if you lived near the beach.

OFC changes impedance, impedance sets tone against the mosfets and changes the mosfet tone, and on the way to speaker some other things change with OFC, depending on solid or fiber, the big trick now is to add odd chemicals to the wire to just slightly increase resistance AND CHANGE THE TONE


When we saw a person was tone deft at my store we sold them the big expensive stuff cause the sweet stuff made no sense to them.
same with wire, needles. and you just hurt feeling if you shove it home.

I heard a 3 FT $1500.00 Cardas RCA inter connect on a Jeff Rowland amp to dyna audio's after a radio shack 2.99 RCA wire, and we all were ragging mad we could never afford that Cardas, I do have the 500.00 cardas wall power cord, and it lays back a brite nasty speaker cold on the ground, and that's connected to the amp.

most folks who really spend the time are shopping to compensate for there own hearing loss and gains somewhere in the game, however small., most folks hear about the same, sorta, but some are gifted listeners, others just want furniture.

Lower mid range is where the magic is for most and for many just lamp cord can get them there, if it go's flat replace it once a year, as the oxygen in the copper will decay it.

Madisound has a tin plated OFC that folks rave about cause OFC is brite as sunlite and often needs slowing down on a good speaker.
tin is a grand but slow conductor, and just like steel wire, if your ears are good you will hear the sound of tin, which some speakers need.

Another way to slow OFC is to braid the heck out of it, but the current flow between a zillion copper fibers causes real BLURRRRRRRRR

I like to play all my disc's, so i use a pre amp with treble and bass knobs, brite comes too easy for me, I will leave a room to flee it and the facts are these, no matter what anyone tells you, all CD music comes from a little 1 inch by 1 inch chip, burr/brown chips are or where the best.
but all from one little chip. so you better get some light and color in your wire, speaker and ears, or its a grey world.

Also often how a CD turns out is unpredictable, you never even hear the producer, it got lost somewhere, Every man deserves to have a stereo he loves, at age 30, a lobe of the brain that loves music begins to get very large, most likely to make you listen to your wife.
often shrieking OFC wire is not helping, run non ofc to one side of your speaker, like the ground side, then OFC to the red side, give it a week,
you may hear a beautiful woman call your name faster on your system Lol.
For the record, i have been out of the business for 30 years, i try so hard now to just like what i have
 
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I still use 3 pr of 1/2 meter Interconnect 400s. Been using them c. 40 yrs. No reason to replace them. I'm not a believer in cable voodoo. BTW, when I got them, there only 2 cable cos - Monster & Fulton
 
I think monster blew its market selling to mid FI markets who wanted furniture not a horn of plenty from a box.
CD's did not help, cause no mater what you play, often it all sounds like a little chip.
Another issue is the loss of recording 9 mins of music on 1/2 inch chrome tape at 30 inches per second, nothing will ever match it, recording pure vibration and out to pure vibration again. the dire straights album "Love Over Gold" has a sound on it that will never be matched because of this. Monster also ended up at home depot, Their R and D got beaten out by supply demand and as well the false sense of fullness a 5.1 creates, then MP3, and what ever good monster did got lost to talking about making the frigging computer work, few people relax and enjoy hi fi anymore, post 911 most ears are on def-con 5 perpetually. Mostly the only folks I know who kick back like we all used to are the very rich out in the country side.
 
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