Caution Monster XP Spkr Wire

11-20-12: Rok2id
...I am not into the wire thing, but I respect your views. Now, a REAL CAUTION concerning Monster would be their interconnects. I have broken two pieces of equipment trying to remove their turbine style RCA interconnects, they fit like Vise grips.

I agree with this. Plugs have to make good contact with the jacks for good signal transfer, but they don't have to mutilate them. I won't use Monster RCAs unless I take a flat screwdriver and slightly bend the turbine-cut collar outward a bit to loosen it up.

In the mid-'90s I got some Monster M1 (or M1000, can't remember which) speaker cable that was incredibly 3-dimensional over the StraightWire ribbon-8 I replaced it with. I wish I'd kept it. At Audio Advisor's closeout price it was killer for the money.

I like AudioQuest's RCAs. They make excellent contact yet plug in and unplug smoothly. Ditto for Kimber and Zu.

I am also using Monster IC's and they Are very tight. In fact I had to return a pair because I broke turbine collar trying to expand with a needle-nose. A better way is to run the connection in & out a bunch of times on an old shot cd player or tape deck. This is not as risky as trying to pry open.

I am using Mons 400i at this time and they are super. In fact I used them on the Roscoe Remasters.

A link to the Roscoe Remasters has been submitted under the Music section

Here it is again

www.beatleforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=songs&action=display&thread=4033&page=1

One may have to cut & paste the link

Rok2id,
Thanks for the caution on the Monster turbo RCAs. I haven't used any of their ICs, just speaker along with some of their DIY bananas which I thought were fine.

The acoustic zen satori blows this away. You can find 8' pairs here all the time for 375 bucks. No comparison. I used the monster xp for years and can say now that I have tried others in my systems over the years that you can do much better and that there is a huge audible difference.