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- From: DE@PHOENIX.SCH.SYMBOLICS.COM (Doug Evans)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Are "Monster Cables" worth it?
- Message-ID: <19930122173512.9.DE@SHAPIERON.SCH.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:35:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- >Date: 16 Jan 93 23:58:58 GMT
- >From: Anthony Datri <siemens!aad@princeton.edu>
-
- >>Hi. I've seen gold plated video cables called "monster cables" at
- >>Radio Shack. How much better are they than regular cables?
- >>Thanks in advance for your help!
-
- >There's a long-standing religious war about cables. One problem is
- >that there was long a big gap in the available cables -- one could
- >find really cheap crap at audio stores, and really expensive Monster
- >Cable stuff, but little or nothing in between. I ordered some "Hosa"
- >cables from a musician-supply place that are better than the cheap
- >crap, but I've also seen that Monster Cable has recently come out
- >with an "economy" line that peons can afford.
-
- I used to be a non believer in high dollar cables. Wire is wire, right?
-
- Well, I was proven wrong. Last month I bought a new Nakamichi CD
- player and the dealer said I *had* to connect it to my system with a
- pair of cables that cost $125. Major sticker shock!! No way was I
- going to spend that much on a single pair of phono cables. So I sat
- down at one of their systems and did a listening test, comparing the
- cheapie $4 cables that came with the unit to a midline $30 set and to the
- $125 set.
-
- I was amazed. The difference between the cheap cables and the $125
- cables was not subtle. The highs were suppressed, the midrange was
- exaggerated, and the bass was not as smooth using the cheap cables.
- There was a similar difference between the cheap cables and the $30
- cables. And, because I don't have golden ears, I could barely distinguish
- the difference between the $30 cables and the $125 cables. So,
- obviously, I bought three pair of $30 cables for my system instead of
- one pair of $125 cables.
-