On 2/3/2012 3:23 PM, Arthur Shapiro wrote:
In , Leonlcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

Now I am going to say that Monster Cables may in fact be better than I
thought and especially in extreme high end stuff.

BUT You have to think that when the clear insulation is 1/2" wide by
1/4" thick and the magnified cable inside that insulation indeed looks
Monster sized and then you see 2

I don't have any familiarity with the company's top-o'-the-line speaker
cables. (I use a different company's product.) But the Sigma interconnects
look pretty much like other good cables - a lot more substantial than the
flimsy little grey things that come with Best Buy sorts of components, but
nothing that will cause much of a visual reaction. It's fairly obvious that
the connectors are substantial, but that's about it. I believe the
corresponding speaker cable is similar - a black-jacketed product, not the
relatively heavy transparent look you're citing.

Now I'm sure there's a huge profit margin in the Monster cables I use, but
nevertheless they seem to be a really fine match for this particular set of
equipment. I just hate to see the company blasted because of their
proletarian stuff that is heavily marketed in mass market stores.

Art


Art it has been quite some time and IIRC I recall when Monster Cables
appeared in the Best Buy stores. Those speaker cables were as I
described in size but had no connectors. They simply had the clear
insulation removed about 3/4" on both ends. Inside the insulation the
wire appeared to be about 6 gauge and no apparent extra shielding.

I am not saying that they were not good cables but other than marketing
why have insulation that was clear and magnified the appearance of the
cable. Does/would thick clear insulation help the sound quality of some
thing you would buy at Best Buy?