Friday, February 8, 2008

The truth shall set you free

First, I must say that Monster Cable products are generally better quality than "generic" cables that you buy some where like Monoprice. That being said, Monster branded products are one of the greatest rip-offs in the history of marketing.

There was a time that you could argue that cable quality made a huge impact on sound and picture quality. I even saw the evidence of this first hand on several occasions. But that was when the majority of information was being transmitted in an analog form. Analog transmission was very dependent on the characteristics of the cable and you could benefit from good quality products. However, today most data transmitted between electronic components is digital and transmission of digital information is much less effected by cable quality compared to analog. So now you don't get a improvement you can hear or see because a digital cable either works and transmits data....or it doesn't.

The HDMI standard is really the death knell for a company like Monster. What is the difference between this Monster Cable product and this "generic" cable from Monoprice? NOTHING! There is no difference based on today's standards, except for the $87.47 price difference.

There is one cable that is overlooked though, and even in a "modern" digital home theater system the cable still transmits its data in an analog fashion. Speaker cable is often overlooked in a system and often times people use poor quality speaker wire or wire that is undersized for the wattage they are driving.

Save you money for good speaker cable by buying cheap HDMI cables.

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