Thursday, August 23, 2007
Monster Cable: Worth It? Not Really.
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
"The only people who should buy Monster cable are people who light cigars with Benjamins. Fortunately for Monster, there are plenty of those people. They're not even suckers, they are just rich as hell, and want the best. This testing did not prove that Monster is not the best. It just proved that the best is, for the most part, unnecessary."
I was looking for some information on cabling (I'm re-doing my A/V system), and came across this article. Gizmodo did a series of articles about a month ago, comparing Monster HDMI cable to various less expensive HDMI cables. The conclusion? Not worth it. Not even close. For analog cable, shielding makes a big difference. In this digital age, problems like shielding and signal degradation are far less prevalent than they used to be. The $30 generic cable is just as good as the $300 Monster cable in nearly every real world situation. Just for reference, I'm not biased against Monster Cable. I've got $1000 of it sitting behind my A/V rack. Every interconnector is Monster in my house. Guess I wasted a ton of money! :lol:
I was looking for some information on cabling (I'm re-doing my A/V system), and came across this article. Gizmodo did a series of articles about a month ago, comparing Monster HDMI cable to various less expensive HDMI cables. The conclusion? Not worth it. Not even close. For analog cable, shielding makes a big difference. In this digital age, problems like shielding and signal degradation are far less prevalent than they used to be. The $30 generic cable is just as good as the $300 Monster cable in nearly every real world situation. Just for reference, I'm not biased against Monster Cable. I've got $1000 of it sitting behind my A/V rack. Every interconnector is Monster in my house. Guess I wasted a ton of money! :lol:
