I'm curious

pixiedave

I was reading the thread on the Monster speakers, and there were negative comments about Monster, what gives whats the beef? Speaker wire is unknown territory to me, and I am curious. I am not looking for ;This cable is better than that cable, but why negative comments about the company. Thanks

PolkThug

I'm gonna make a negative comment about your signature if you don't trim it up.


Monster is an "over-hyper" just like Bose. This is where the negativity stems from.


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Regards,
Polkthug

Pauly

ATC very well stated !!!!

PhantomOG

"I dont like anything found at Best Buy or Circuit City"

it is true that alot of people in whatever hobby they choose tend to believe that exclusivity designates higher quality.

it is somewhat childish but i imagine it brings the person in question more satisfaction to promote products they own or use which cannot be easily obtained. thus the calls for really obscure, discontinued, exorbitantly priced, etc. products.

pixiedave

Thanks for the reply, guess its time to start researching cables!:D

warviper

I feel that larger comanys start taking into effect profit margin and the bottom line and the overall quality is sacraficed to increase profit while the smaller companys depend on selling a better item at a lower price so they can compete with all the hype and influance that the larger comapnys demands from consumers.

PolkWannabie

Any company, large or small, that doesn't do this ain't gonna be around very long.

Large company or small is not a particularly good yardstick. If it were most of us never would have bought most of the components we have.

warviper

Sorry our family has owned a small resturant for the past 15 years profit margin is taken into consideration but we would rather break even than lose a customer. Happens all the time sometimes some one orders something they dont want the waitstaff is more than happy to take it back abd replace with whatever they want at no cost. It was not our fault they were trying something new and got something less than what they expected.

PolkWannabie

I understand and agree having been a business owner as well.

But small companies don't have a monopoly on customer service and although I might tend to agree that small companies are maybe more likely to give better customer service, I still don't believe that there is necessarily a indirect relationship between company size and the level of customer sevice one is likely to get i.e. one can not assume that the level of customer service is likely to be indirectly proportional to the size of the company.

I'm sure you'd agree that some large companies do customer service well as well as some small companies do it poorly.

warviper

Never **** u me anything.

reeltrouble1

Customer Service now holds a low priority at Yale or other Ivy League Schools. Not picking on them though, all Business Students now learn its about price and advertising and a good gimmick.

I would think that Monster Cable has not invested its millions idlee. They have set a standard others compare too. I have seen advertising where other wire companies compare themselves to Monster--why?? Monster makes a nice product allowing you to spend as much as you want. I found their interconnects and cables improved my system, but I also use Transparent and Canare (Blue Jeans Cable). I see Monster Cables that sell very quickly on Audiogon.

I feel sole proprietors will give as good CS as they can to stay afloat, partnerships pretty much the same. When dealing with them I have found them to be easier to work with. The big boys well, they have policies about things that may not work for each situation. I once got Walmart to take back two dvd's that I had opened and give me my money back, against all of their policies but they did it. Really had to work for it though, go through all the store managers and such.

So back to thread, if you buy Monster you have bought a proven product, you can find others as good for less, so good luck, but wire in itself is not an answer to all audio things or problems.

Stepping off my soapbox:cool:

steveinaz

Keeping in mind general rules about electricity such as gauge for certain lengths of wire, I don't think that any wire is good or bad; I think they all have a different character to their sound. I've found bare/stranded cable to be very "full" sounding; bassy with alot of midrange warmth; where solid core cable sounds tighter in the bass region, thinner in midrange.

These are my subjective observations. I think gauge has far less to do with the quality of a cable than does the cables topology or design.