Jumper upgrade disaster

Gunther16
Gunther16 Posts: 243
in Vintage Speakers
Knowing I had some 8ga Monster speaker wire leftover from the early 90's I figured I'd make up some better quality jumpers. So I got all the material, pulled out the old Monster cable and lo and behold the entire 8ft of cable has oxidation beneath the insulation. Also when stripping the ends it feels like the insulation turned into glue and saturated between the strands. Well back to the drawing board and supply store. Glad I did not have this cable hooked up anymore.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    Not uncommon pal, just be glad you noticed beforehand.
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  • deucekazoo
    deucekazoo Posts: 146
    I noticed the same thing. All my monster 12 awg cable has turned green. I bought some no name brand 12 awg cable about the same time in the early 90s and that one still looks good. Not sure what they did with that cable.
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  • kkritsilas
    kkritsilas Posts: 14
    I have never been a fan of Monster Cable. I see them as fairly overpriced for no better than hardware store cable. I also have issues with their aggressive legal department (to the extent that they sent a cease and desist letter to a small cable manufacturer because he was making RCA interconnect cables, claimin that the RCA connectors were their IP). Unfortunately for Monster Cable, the small cable manufacturer was owned by a lawyer, who wrote them back and said basically, I am happy to take this into a court of law at any time; I know that the RCA connectors are NOT your IP, can have no issue proving that. Monster Cable dropped the matter.
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  • Schurkey
    Schurkey Posts: 2,101
    edited February 2016
    First I ever heard of Monster Cable turning green under the insulation was...twenty years ago. Maybe longer. I thought at the time Monster offered to replace all "green" cable. I'm moderately certain Monster claimed the "green" didn't affect the sonics. (Ha!) I also sort-of-remember that Monster claimed the fault had been "fixed", and the new product (at that time) wouldn't turn green.

    First Guess: Hand it back to any store that sells bulk Monster Cable, they'll hand you an equivalent amount of new stock.
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