What’s wrong with monster cables?

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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    I see butthurtz still abounds around this place. :p

    There he is!

    Viking, I’m gonna be honest, until now I hadn’t looked at your profile picture and I thought it was some type of bird or something. I just looked at it closer and I realized it’s a pug. And that it is sooo cute.
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  • F1nut
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    ken brydson wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    ken brydson wrote: »
    mlistens03 wrote: »
    I think that I did lose a female rca jack on a cheap white van sub once, but I was gonna blow it anyways so I didn’t care

    Can't do it, too easy....

    Do it before @Viking64 does! :smiley:

    He takes the low hanging fruit...

    LMAO.......
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 6,679
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,649
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 6,679
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    Back to true form Captain Jimmy!
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  • Viking64
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    Oh...MONSTER cables. Now I get it. :p
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    Oh...MONSTER cables. Now I get it. :p

    LOL
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    Oh...MONSTER cables. Now I get it. :p

    You are a quick one! LOL! :smiley:
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  • Viking64
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    ken brydson wrote: »
    ....

    What happened to Yoda?
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
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    Going to bed guys, I’ll check tomorrow and see the horrors that arise
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  • Viking64
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    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Going to bed guys, I’ll check tomorrow and see the horrors that arise

    I'm going to go shave my donkey and let the nerds have their fun. :p
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  • verb
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    Brush his teeth too please!
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  • Viking64
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    verb wrote: »
    Brush his teeth too please!
    Ummmm, I believe posting another member's picture without their permission is frowned upon. :p
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  • verb
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    Can I get your permission sir? After the fact of course! :smiley:
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 6,679
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    verb wrote: »
    Can I get your permission sir? After the fact of course! :smiley:
    I would grant you my permission, but perhaps you should hear it from the....wait for it....horse's mouth. :p
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  • F1nut
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    Isn’t it funny that the class clown never knows the joke is on them.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Viking64
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    Pretend ignore.
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  • mlistens03
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    verb wrote: »
    Brush his teeth too please!
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    Definitely brush his teeth.
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  • Viking64
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    mlistens03 wrote: »
    Definitely brush his teeth.

    Depending on which region of the country that donkey is from, perhaps the phrase "brush his tooth" would be more appropriate. :#
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  • Jstas
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The "green wire" problem is caused by hydrochloric acid -- either residual in or, more likely, due to the environmental degradation of -- the polyvinylchloride (PVC) jacket used in some speaker cables.

    Other polymers are less likely to have that problem (although they may have others) -- PVC isn't a great choice for an insulator, anyway (IMO), but it is cheap.

    Yeah, probably should have mentioned that urethane is a less reactive and more durable insulating material. All my favorite speaker wires use clear urethane jacketing.

    Most of the car speaker wire I've used has urethane jacketing. PVC melts like boogers and gets sticky when in contact with many of the petroleum based products found in cars. Especially petroleum distillates like gasoline, engine oil and brake fluid.

    Urethane, on the other hand, is pretty non-reactive. I've dropped urethane insulated speaker wire in a puddle of gasoline, wiped it off and been none the worse for wear.

    Urethane also tends to remain flexible as long as you keep it out of sunlight. The flexing agents necessary for urethane to remain pliable are destroyed by UV radiation.

    But urethane won't get sticky like PVC will. It will just dry out and start to crack. Urethane can oxidized, though and while it won't get gooey sticky like PVC will, it will get tacky sticky like a Post-It note.

    Also, if you have any vintage speakers that use a veneer that is a "picture of wood" on a vinyl sheet and it's sticky, the same degradation/oxidation that makes PVC jacketed wiring gooey-sticky happened to your vinyl veneer. You can't clean it off. You can only strip it and put new veneer on. But often they are made with particle board and stripping it will destroy it.
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  • mlistens03
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    I do remember having a sticky wood veneer on a pair of old Magnavox speakers, but the tweeters had gotten wet so I was throwing them away anyways.
    I'm gonna look at my monoprice cable, but I do think that it is urethane, and not PVC.
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  • mlistens03
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    I was bored while doing schoolwork so I completely stripped my monster cable that turned green for some bizarre reason and
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    I made my desk water tight (maybe) with the insulation I cut off while doing it.
    What has happened to my life.
    Just thought I would share with you guys the boring life of me.
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  • mlistens03
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    Does this count as saving the environment? I mean, I am re-using the insulation, and it’s not going to a landfill... maybe. It’s possible that when I open my desk that it will all fall out.
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  • tonyb
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    I don't know what your studying in school, but can't imagine something being as boring as stripping Monster cable. :)
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  • mlistens03
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    How about reading a book from over 200 years ago that I can’t really understand?
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  • mhardy6647
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    mlistens03 wrote: »
    How about reading a book from over 200 years ago that I can’t really understand?

    That's why you go to school!

    :|
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
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    True
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  • tonyb
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    May we ask what your reading specifically ?

    Age doesn't necessarily mean there's a learning curve to reading, aside from getting use to the lingo of the times, which can be daunting....depending.
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    Sony 4k BRP
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    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
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    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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  • mlistens03
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    It is the autobiography of David Crockett, which is not especially boring, except right now all he does is go hunting, then come home and have a neighbor ask him to go home, and then come home again and etc.
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