I don't know. Think about this. You listen to music on your $6000 stereo
and it sounds good. When you call a store and are put on "hold", that
same music does not sound so good over the telephone. Why? Think about
all those spices and connections on the phone wires. That must be the
difference. If the phone company used straight runs of Monster Cable,
we'd get the same good sound.

I guy I worked for once was a serious audiophile. He had a stereo setup that
cost $150,000. He didn't use monster cable, but his speaker cable was
easily an inch in diameter. Based on the amount of power he was pushing
thru it, I guess it made a difference. I don't claim to have golden ears,
but I scoffed at him for spending over 600 bucks on a 12" carbon fiber patch
cable of some sort that went between his amp and his preamp. He proceeded
to swap the new one and his old one in and out while I had my eyes closed.
Believe it or not, I could actually hear the difference. I doubt if I would
have even noticed the difference after about 2 minutes of keeping one or the
other in place, but there was a definite change in the dynamics of the
sound. I wouldn't have believed it if he didn't show me. I guess at the
level where your stereo costs more than most people's houses, a cable can
actually make a difference. He didn't use monster cable though.....