A recent study gave placebos promoted as pain killers. Some were
told the pill cost $0.10. Others were told it cost $2.50. Then all
were subjected to pain. Those who took the $2.50 placebo
overwhelmingly declared better results.

The Monster Cable $100+ solution is equivalent to the protector
selling in a grocery store for $7. Everything from Monster Cable is
better described as a scam. Why would Best Buy, Circuit City, and
Radio Shack promote the Monster Cable product? Learn the profit
margin. The naive automatically assume a higher price means a better
product - rather than learn what it does and how it actually works.

Monster Cable sold special designed cables for better sounding
speakers. Monster Cable is an extremely profitable company. They use
same 'science' that proved Saddam had WMDs.

On Mar 14, 10:52*am, wrote:
A number of friends and relatives have flat-screen TV's they've bought
in the last couple of years, along with consumer-grade audio systems,
AND they have those Monster (brand) power conditioners. *You know
Monster-they're the folks that charge $100 for a 3-ft. length of wire.

Anyway, places such as Ultimate Electronics and Circuit City are pushing
these devices, usually those made by Monster.

Lately, I noticed APC was advertising their power conditioners in a
consumer electronics/computermagazine.

I've got a lot of high-end audio and video equipment I've been using for
many years, in a variety of cities, and I DON'T have a power
conditioner; heck, I don't even have anysurgesuppressors! *I've never
had a problem with most of my gear--at least, not problems that could be
attributed to power fluctuations.

Question is: are these things really worthwhile or necessary?