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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Monster Cables
14 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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I hear ya boy. I hear ya. However, I do love the Monster mini-coax cable. It's a skinny coax wire and it works. No video degradation despite it's small diameter size.
c. umulus n. imbusi -
2/20/08, 1:51 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Please stop w/ the goat pictures.
Thanks. -
2/20/08, 2:26 PM
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Anonymous said...
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www.monoprice.com
Quality equal to or better than Monster at a fraction of the price. I paid less than $100 for 33m of HDMI cable. No more Monster Markups for me, thanks. -
2/20/08, 3:27 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Actually, it's goatse.
Tim -
2/20/08, 4:33 PM
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Unknown said...
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missing a "c" there fellow
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2/20/08, 4:49 PM
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BlogDog said...
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My friend the Guitar Nazi truly believes (and I mean this in the sense of "true believer") that Monster Cables sound better in all his equipment. There are times that it's the better part of valor to just let things lie. I'll not be arguing the point with him.
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2/20/08, 5:55 PM
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Anonymous said...
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To make that kind of profit on one of my cannons I'd have to be chargeing about $7000.00 for it. It's no wonder I call it a hobby bizznizz. If I made that much I could by a real shop instead of using my basement.
Cannon Man -
2/20/08, 7:42 PM
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Bob Hawkins said...
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When I was in grad school, my professor got all the propaganda about how much better Monster cables are than plain copper wires. He got paranoid about our experimental setup. After all, if regular copper was audibly degrading the signal from his preamp to his amp, what was it doing to the picowatt signals from our liquid nitrogen-cooled detector to the preamp, and from the preamp to the amp?
So I had to waste a week tearing our experiment apart and doing -- and analyzing -- tests. Conclusion? Zero, zip, nada, squat. Plain copper wire does f'n-all to even the most delicate signals.
Ever since then, I hate Monster F'n Cable and all its works. I could have spent that week making progress toward a degree and gainful employment, or screwing gymnasts. But no, I spent it testing F'n Monster Cable.
So don't talk to me about Monster Cable. -
2/20/08, 8:23 PM
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Anonymous said...
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A true zealot can not be reasoned with. If you continue, it is your own ego and not facts or logic that motivate you. Then you risk descending to their level. Like wrestling with a pig. Both of you get dirty, but the pig loves it.
Tim -
2/20/08, 9:15 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The biggest rip-off I know of in the electronics industry is in stylus assemblies. (aka. "record player needles").
Now, maybe things have changed but when I worked @ a major electronics store in the 80s, our cost on those things was miniscule, $3 or so. IIRC, the shelf price on the crappy one was close to $50 and the "high end" needle was close to a hundred bucks! The salesman commission ("spiff") was more than $30, as much as a Mitsubishi big-screen TV or a $1000 stereo system so it was clear that management desperately wanted us to sell those things. And then they'd push us to sell warranties (more pure profit) on the needles. Pure profit on top of absurd markups. What a deal!
I didn't last there b/c I didn't sell enough warranties. -
2/20/08, 11:30 PM
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Anonymous said...
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i was ripped of to the tune of over5 a hundred bucks once for monster cables. Then a Electrical engineer that does home theater on his spare time clued me in all stated above about monster is true. The bastards will never get another dime from me.
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2/21/08, 5:15 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Does anyone remember when the big thing was to mark the outer edges of your CDs with green, had to be green, magic markers to make them sound better? I had a co-worker audiophile who swore by it. I couldn't convince her otherwise. I even went to the extent of pointing out that software was being delivered on CDs at the time and if the software wasn't 100% bit-for-bit correct this wouldn't be feasible. CDs are recorded on 2048 byte blocks with both a CRC and ECC bits at the end. Some of the early high-end CD players even had a three color LED to show this. Green if everything is OK, yellow if the ECC bits were used, and red if the block failed.
JLW III
CRC = Cyclic Redundancy Check
ECC = Error Correcting Code -
2/21/08, 7:02 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Ooooboy, I remember. One of out programmer nerds convinced me of it so I tried it on several of my wife's CDs. They were ruined. So was I.
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2/21/08, 7:35 AM
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rElYinG oN pRoZac said...
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Need some closure (or suffer from insomnia and need some sleep) check out this
http://sound.westhost.com/cables.htm#intro
and this
http://www.randi.org/jr/121004science.html#11
I warned you, don't operate heavy machinery and read these treaties. -
2/21/08, 8:10 AM
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