[Elysian]

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As much as people hate Monster around here, how do their standard speaker cables stand up to other cables?  My dad got a short run of it for his (Bose...) speakers, and they seem to be of pretty good quality.  Nice and thick, good insulation and very flexible, and even after being there for several years there's not a single sign of corrosion at the ends of the cable.  Their speaker cables aren't ridiculously expensive either.
 
Still though, I'm sure you could probably get something exactly the same for far less...

 
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239
 
Probably significantly cheaper and just as good.  Even if it does fall apart, you can usually get 2-3 units of equivalent Monoprice cables with the cost of an equivalently specced Monster.

 

[DaBomb77766]

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http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239
 
Probably significantly cheaper and just as good.  Even if it does fall apart, you can usually get 2-3 units of equivalent Monoprice cables with the cost of an equivalently specced Monster.

Yeah, I'm sure that stuff works just as well.  Honestly though, I think the Monster cables look nicer.
 
I saw that there was some Rocketfish stuff that looked almost identical but was about 2/3 of the price.  Either way, it still really isn't that expensive...maybe about $50 for something like 20 feet of it at the very most.  Even ethernet cable tends to cost more than that locally.

 

[DaveBSC]

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I saw that there was some Rocketfish stuff that looked almost identical but was about 2/3 of the price.  Either way, it still really isn't that expensive...maybe about $50 for something like 20 feet of it at the very most.  Even ethernet cable tends to cost more than that locally.

I don't think that's any kind of great deal. Belden 1309A sells for around $35 for 50 feet.
 

 

[buffalowings]

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I don't think that's any kind of great deal. Belden 1309A sells for around $35 for 50 feet.
 

I don't like rocketfish, they make way too many things for their own good (poop-joe screen protectors etc etc)

 

[DaveBSC]

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I don't like rocketfish, they make way too many things for their own good (poop-joe screen protectors etc etc)

They're a Best Buy brand. I'd never pay that company a cent.
 

 

[DaBomb77766]

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I don't think that's any kind of great deal. Belden 1309A sells for around $35 for 50 feet.
 

Well, I'm not really trying to defend Monster or anything, just saying that it could be far, far worse.  Like $200 for a two meter long HDMI cable from Monster.

 

[DaveBSC]

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Well, I'm not really trying to defend Monster or anything, just saying that it could be far, far worse.  Like $200 for a two meter long HDMI cable from Monster.

 
That's true, paying only 2-3x as much as you should I guess is less awful than paying 5-10x as much as you should. Bird flu is also less awful than bubonic plague.
 
 

 

[DaBomb77766]

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That's true, paying only 2-3x as much as you should I guess is less awful than paying 5-10x as much as you should. Bird flu is also less awful than bubonic plague.
 
 

 
To be honest, I'd never pay for those cables myself.  It was my dad who bought them, not me.
 
But unfortunately, it's pretty hard to get good quality cables in Canada for a reasonable price.  Ordering things from monoprice, for example, is pretty expensive due to shipping...

 

[DaveBSC]

Do you have online sellers that carry contractor type wire? Belden, JSC, and Carol are the ones I know of, and they all make quality stuff.

 

[chronicled]

Good to know. Don't go incredibly cheap but don't waste spending $200 on a wire either. But seriously who would spend $200 on a cable.

 

[buffalowings]

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Good to know. Don't go incredibly cheap but don't waste spending $200 on a wire either. But seriously who would spend $200 on a cable.

head-fi would.. >_>

 

[DaveBSC]

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Good to know. Don't go incredibly cheap but don't waste spending $200 on a wire either. But seriously who would spend $200 on a cable.

:::raises hand:::

 

[Willakan]

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[Steve Eddy]

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[pigmode]

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