Why are you sure you are missing something by using the Monster? Have you tried other cables and found the Monster wanting? The reason I ask is that one can have a vague feeling that something is wrong ONLY because a component doesn't cost all that much, and then fixate on that idea, and that leads to a lot of $$ spent unecessarily. What exactly is wrong with the cable's performance?
The chances are, if you are unhappy at all with your sound, it has more to do with the speakers voicing, or the treatment of the room, or the speaker room interation. Mixing and matching cables for tuning the sonics will be very expensive and time consuming and the time is better spent in my opinion.
It just turns out that other choices tend to be more rewarding, i.e., subwoofers, room treatment to even out the response, etc.
Except in a very limited sense, cable is pretty much cable and spending more than say $100 on speaker cable is, all things considered, not worth it when other avenues pay more dividends for the $.
Basically, if you can't handle bright edgy sound, don't listen to edgy recordings... the amount of brightness introduced by a cable pales in relation to the amount of edginess already present in the recording and the preceding electronics.
I would not spend $600 on cables until you see what a good subwoofer can do for the sound in a big room. Consider the Hsu VTF-2 for instance. Less than $500.
The chances are, if you are unhappy at all with your sound, it has more to do with the speakers voicing, or the treatment of the room, or the speaker room interation. Mixing and matching cables for tuning the sonics will be very expensive and time consuming and the time is better spent in my opinion.
It just turns out that other choices tend to be more rewarding, i.e., subwoofers, room treatment to even out the response, etc.
Except in a very limited sense, cable is pretty much cable and spending more than say $100 on speaker cable is, all things considered, not worth it when other avenues pay more dividends for the $.
Basically, if you can't handle bright edgy sound, don't listen to edgy recordings... the amount of brightness introduced by a cable pales in relation to the amount of edginess already present in the recording and the preceding electronics.
I would not spend $600 on cables until you see what a good subwoofer can do for the sound in a big room. Consider the Hsu VTF-2 for instance. Less than $500.