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Is Monster cable getting better?

I don’t like monster cables in general and I know it has bad reputation(nothing but marketing) among audiophile & videophile. It is like bragging about your Bose system to people playing high end audio.

I don’t know why but not many high end cable company makes hdmi cable. So I picked up a Monster 1000HD hdmi at best buy and thought Monster is all about marketing and its performance would be easily surpassed by other cable company. I tried Audioquest hdmi3(not sure if it is genuine but bought from an A’gon member with 500+ positive feedback), bluejean, bettercable, monoprice… Monoprice has the worst performance but it only sell for $5. Some silver cables might render a little more detail than the Monster 1000HD, but the contrast and color and overall performance are still not as good as the Monster. The monster 1000HD looks very natural and smooth without loosing details.

I guess I am done with hdmi cable search and will stick with Monster for hdmi cable. Has anybody tried the Monster M2000 and is it much better than 1000HD? For audio cable I am using transparent and haven’t tried Monster yet. Maybe they are getting better, too.
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tgrisham
1,291 posts
 
I think their cables are quite ordinary. I also refuse to buy them based on their legal strategy of taking to court any company that has the word monster in its title, even those that do not relate to audio. This article is worth reading....
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-strikes-back
larry_s
128 posts
 
If you think an HDMI can make video look "better" or "worse" compared to another HDMI cable, please do some reading on how HDMI works for video. It's impossible for a HDMI cable to uniformly change a video stream of encoded bits. If you do see a difference, it's not because of the cable - most likely faulty recollection or faulty hardware.
loomisjohnson
1,949 posts
 
as someone who's never grasped much difference between well-made cables, i don't understand why monster gets slammed for "promulgating myths" or hyping their (comparatively) modestly priced products when virtually every purveyor of mega-buck cables does the same thing. like coca cola or mcdonalds, monster has invested a ton in building brand awareness; i say more power to them. those folk that consider big businesses to be intrinsically more evil than small businesses can make buying decisions accordingly; everyone else can choose to benefit from the cost and technolgical advantages incident to economies of scale.
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stringreen
6,475 posts
 
Monster and Bose are consumer driven companies as opposed to "audiophile" driven.
audiolui
295 posts
 
Although on paper HDMI cables shouldn't make any difference as long as they are made aocording to spec, I do see the difference which is not substantial but noticeable. However, their difference is not as big as audio cables which can sound very differently among so many brands.
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