Monster Chain Jerker

I use GE braided shield interconnects for almost everything. You can get them at Target or Fry's. Look nice, work well and are reasonably priced.
 
I've set up audio for nearly every grammy winner since the 90's and NOBODY anywhere uses that crap. No artist uses it, not the Stones, not Metallica, not Chesney. No production company anywhere uses it or sells it. Makes me laugh. Ask the folks making Crown and Midas consoles and V-dosc or EAW. Quality is in the processing, not the connection. Same goes for the "gold connectors!!!" crap. Totally unnecessary.
 
I don't know about monster cables but scientific research has been able to find strong evidence of price/quality correlation in controlled listening tests, meaning the test persons have been able to tell the cables apart in a blind test.

Naturally the difference is very small, small enough for an average person not to know it. Certainly not worth hundreds of dollars (even thousands on some labels).
 
DrNick said:
Another reason to only shop at monoprice. Nice read, thanks
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QFT. Monoprice is one of the best stores out there on the interwebnet.

I e-mailed this story to Steve last night, apparently Kyle got to it first :p
 
onetwenty8k said:
QFT. Monoprice is one of the best stores out there on the interwebnet.

I e-mailed this story to Steve last night, apparently Kyle got to it first :p
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Got a call late last night....Steve got that 500HP motor in his car and blew the drivetrain out of it some 100 miles outside of town. Hence, no Steve this morning.
 
Hmm are these the coat hangers with "I love my drycleaner" or the ones with those little built-in shoulder pads?
 
Audiophiles are knuckle-heads. I know, I used to be one and then I stopped one day and realized that I was spending a gob of money on a pair of Carver amps (the vacuum tube type) and for what? So I can hear the audial clarity of a pop, a click, or a hiss? To somehow enjoy the warming tones of vinyl over cd plastic? I pretty much stopped right there because I realized I was moving into a mental world of stupid. It was quite clarifying actually, and then I went back home and I had the horrific naked realization of seeing how much I spent on this stuff and felt deep shame at how I equated my ego to whether or not I could perceive sound over 20Khz. After that, I resoundingly crushed my stupidity.

Oh, I still have the gear. I mean, God Damn it if I was going to part with it. Yeah, it was top notch, price wise, but compared to something you can get at Costco it was almost no different. But hey, that's life.
 
killerbobjr said:
Umm, did anyone notice that post is from 2004?
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Monster was around in 2004? Their like a cult, why are they not dead yet? Oh, yeah, because no other brand is sold within miles of every Best Buy.

I bet you my Bailing wire cables sound better than coathanger and Monster combined!
 
synapsis said:
And if anyone else wants a laugh at Audiophiles, I always find http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm to be a good source.
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Nice. I've had an enjoyable couple of hours reading up on all the whacked out crap people spend money on to make their equipment perform better. <---Sound like an ad for a penis pump? It doesn't seem to be that far off the mark when it comes to audio.

I just got a pair of headphones and noticed the overly descriptive language used in certain headphone review websites. IMO it's a case of "I spend a ton of money on my equipment, therefore I am an expert". The sites were still helpful but I did keep the saltshaker handy...
 
Good little test and it doesn't surprise me a bit. If you look around you'll see that even headphones costing 5 bucks or 200 bucks usually use the same cheapo wires, regardless of the sound quality they produce.

Honestly though, 50k on fucking speakers? Even if I had millions to waste and lived in a desert somewhere with no one around to hear my loud music, I still wouldn't spend so much money just to listen to my por--I mean, music.
 
LOL. God this may be old but I hadn't heard about it. Fucking priceless. I've been on a crusade it seems like as of late about people placing more faith in "feelings" then actual science when it comes to spending their money, seeing stuff like this makes me happy.
 
I knew they were hugely overpriced, but I figured there must be SOMETHING to them, or else they would be in SOME sort of trouble with the FCC/BBB (I heard something about it but not what)

I upgrade from the thin wire stuff to braided just because of durability ant it looks nicer (plus I have been around cats who LOVE cables, so an extra defense helps)
 
Eh, as a musician of 20 years, I can tell you that Monster cable are over-priced and physically very inflexible garbage. I've tried every decent-to-great cable in the industry, and there's no difference between most. If there's ever been a difference, it's been other cheaper TRS cables that have sounded slightly better than Monster.
 
I guess this goes to show you that wire is wire when it comes to electricity.
 
HA! i always knew monster was crap...anybody else not understand a word about that guys setup though? :confused:
 
Its funny because I remember some Monster blowhard was challenging people to tell the difference between their cables and even more expensive offerings from boutique cable companies.

Shoe is on the other foot now, I guess ;)
 
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