Monster Cable gets pwned

Awesome!! I've always bought cables from Blue Jeans and their products and customer service are top notch. I loved Blue Jeans before and more so now!! F Monster!!
 
I wish more lawyers took his position on insurance claims. I hate offering small sums on claims when I know we owe nothing.
 
We keep a bose system in the store to demo to show what marketing does. People will come in and say "Oh you carry bose great" and then we get to reply "No we keep it here to show people the difference between bose and realy speakers.
On the monster subject, I had a couple come into the store a month or so ago looking for a TV, and one of them worked for bose. This person asked me what I had at home and I told them a little about my system, their reply back was "You must have it all hooked up with monster cables" I said absolutly not, way over-priced" this person almost went into shock at this statment. After talking a little more tunrs out they did sometype of marketing for monster. I felt really bad about this.
Our owner has brought monster stuff into the store but it is really funny to see it sit there and collect dust.
 
I've always wondered how much coin they had to drop into Herbie Hancock's lap to get him to sign on to their infomercial.

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hlaustin, I seem to remember you guys having some kind of high-end A/V cables in your store other than Monster. What brand were those and how do they match up performance wise, or am I thinking of a different store?
 
There is no matching up performance wise. HDMI cables either work or they don't. There's no need to spend $100 on a monster cable when a $15 will provide the same quality. Cable quality matter for devices that transmit an analog signal. HDMI is digital. The 0's and 1's get there or they don't. There's no middle ground.
 
We carry a brand called NXG, it is made by Phoenix Gold. We sell a 6' HDMI cable for 30.00. We have carried a "higher end" version of it, and still have some on the shelf but don't sell any of them.
 
Which is almost never going to happen in the average home. I've got a cheap 50' hdmi cable at work for a projector that works fine.

I don't know what distance it would have to be. If a company makes a super long cable, it will have been tested and should work for that distance with common devices. The only way I would buy a monster cable is if there were no other cables available at the length I needed.
 
EE here as well..

While you are right brntorng, the distance required to have those effects come into play would be ridiculous for a digital signal propagating down 22 awg wires. The "big" concern with cables is the amount of EMI they emit and how well they block out other EMI. As far as a digital signal goes, it will only emit EMI during a 1 -> 0 or 0 -> 1 transistion (when the voltage changes). Furthermore, all line level signals are low voltage and the strength of the EMI is minimal. The majority of the problem arises from power lines being run in parallel with low voltage signals. Digital is pretty immune to this as their noise margins are huge. Obviously, its a larger concern with analog cables but you can remedy it pretty easily, all w/o $100 cables.
 
I strongly considered going to law school simply for this type of circumstance. You can get many jobs outside of law after law school, but having the knowledge to write this kind of response is close to "Priceless". (Obviously law school has a price.)

And if this gets a little more attention, who knows? Maybe the IRS comes knocking. Wouldn't that be funny?
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It's your money. I don't care what you spend it on. I'm not wasting mine on ridiculously overpriced cables, though.
 
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