In article , Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:
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.

Who knows? Probably at that level it's marketing, an activity by which I'm
personally repulsed. I don't think you can fault them for expending effort to
make something look appealing or to otherwise distinguish the stuff from the
other 50 companies making similar merchandise. I surely wouldn't purchase
something that didn't have heavy connectors firmly attached to the ends; do
they expect folks to be using those binding posts with holes in them to stick
the wire and smush it down???

Probably the best (?) example of this mentality are those mini stereo systems
that look like a stacked bunch of separate components in a vertical array -
amp, preamp, tuner, tape deck, CD player, etc. And you open up the unit and
you see it's all a facade like the movie studio westerns, and there's just one
little circuit board sitting at the bottom of the otherwise empty interior!

Have to say I recently bought a low-level Monster product. The tiny desktop
computer I built last summer didn't have two DVI outputs on the motherboard,
unlike the old computer. It has a DVI and a HDMI output. Thus I couldn't
drive both monitors. So I purchased a Monster DVI---HDMI cable. It seemed
to be well-constructed, had heavy connectors well-attached to the cable at
both ends, and certainly gave the impression that it would hold up to use over
time. What more could one ask? It has worked out well.

Art