LizardKing1
Headphoneus Supremus
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I don't know if I've already posted this, but no, I probably won't trust Monster as a company. It has nothing to do with their products (which, from what I've seen so far, have only the Turbines to be proud of). They are a dishonest company, the true evil-corporation-clichè. I really believe they only care about money.
-They have a habit of sueing any other company that dares go by the name of Monster, even if there is absolutely no way that their products might be mistaken under some sort of copyright legislation. A good example is when they sued a mini-golf course called Monster, and then when they realized the public didn't really go for huge corporations sueing small family businesses, they droped it. It's pathetic.
-They are known to sell really unnecessarily expensive cables, the most notorious case is their amazing 100$ HDMI cable. You're paying for the brand, basically.
-Their marketing plots are ridiculous. They had a Monster Best Buy display (the story is on youtube, it's not mine, but it is real) with 2 screens: one using a HDMI monster cable, the other using some cheap brand cable. Everyone was impressed at how much better the Monster cable was. What they didn't tell you was that the cheap cable was a VGA, not HDMI. Not only is it a different technology, so not comparable, they are comparing a digital signal to an analog one.
-And obviously, they employed Beats by Dre. Another bad marketing ploy is the Beats Audio in HP laptops, which is basically a fancy UI for the Windows EQ. Oh and when you turn off the Beats Audio, it sets your EQ to cut off all the bass, so you think the sound is much better with Beats.
I would hardly trust a company that did one of these, but they did all...
-They have a habit of sueing any other company that dares go by the name of Monster, even if there is absolutely no way that their products might be mistaken under some sort of copyright legislation. A good example is when they sued a mini-golf course called Monster, and then when they realized the public didn't really go for huge corporations sueing small family businesses, they droped it. It's pathetic.
-They are known to sell really unnecessarily expensive cables, the most notorious case is their amazing 100$ HDMI cable. You're paying for the brand, basically.
-Their marketing plots are ridiculous. They had a Monster Best Buy display (the story is on youtube, it's not mine, but it is real) with 2 screens: one using a HDMI monster cable, the other using some cheap brand cable. Everyone was impressed at how much better the Monster cable was. What they didn't tell you was that the cheap cable was a VGA, not HDMI. Not only is it a different technology, so not comparable, they are comparing a digital signal to an analog one.
-And obviously, they employed Beats by Dre. Another bad marketing ploy is the Beats Audio in HP laptops, which is basically a fancy UI for the Windows EQ. Oh and when you turn off the Beats Audio, it sets your EQ to cut off all the bass, so you think the sound is much better with Beats.
I would hardly trust a company that did one of these, but they did all...