Celebration of Monster Cable's Success-Read it and Weep

PhillyDan1969

PhillyDan1969

Junior Audioholic
Thomas Tusser once said,

"A fool and his money are soon parted!"

You cannot blame any American entrepreneur who invents a product based simply on getting rich due to the above axiom!!!
 
mike c

mike c

Audioholic Warlord
i didn't read the whole article.

to specialized surge protectors that prevent power from flowing the wrong way through a home theater system.
which way? this way or that way?
 
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jamie2112

Banned
Wow the general public LOVES to be ripped off, now I am sure of this.......
 
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10010011

Senior Audioholic
Just goes to show you that P.T. Barnum was right...
 
GlocksRock

GlocksRock

Audioholic Spartan
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little... maybe a lot.
 
bandphan

bandphan

Banned
Just read that they are lowering the price of all of their HDMI cables and some of their audio to compete with the likes of BJC and Monoprice:rolleyes: I do believe they are starting to reap what they sowed.
 
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DaleAV

Full Audioholic
I admire Mr. Noel's hard work in establishing a successful business. At the time Monster hit the scene, there were many junk cables around, and I do mean real junk. The initial prices were high even back then, but they DID in fact offer a superior product when the choices were mediocre or very high end.

Since then they have certainly gone way overboard, and many have passed them or equaled them in terms of overall quality but at lower prices.

You can pick Tributaries if you want cables built like a battleship..and attractive too..still better value than the Big M.

But go with monoprice, AR, BJC, etc. and you get true value and no loss in performance.
 
darien87

darien87

Audioholic Spartan
If you just read the article without knowing anything about Monster, he sounds like a really nice guy. :rolleyes:
 
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aarond

Full Audioholic
LEE: "Music is my passion, and it occurred to me that the wires people used to connect their speakers to their home stereo systems were not constructed in a way that provided the best listening experience. In those days speaker wire was an afterthought.

I started testing different wire options at home, varying the thickness, composition and braiding pattern, and listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture again and again through each test cord, until I found the best possible construct.

Listening to wire is a learned process, like wine tasting. You must listen for many things at once - dynamics, loudness, bass response, high frequencies - so you need a piece of music that contains all those elements. [Later, Lee would use Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" from the album Bad as his test song.] I would go back and forth between one wire structure and another, listening to the same song thousands of times. Then it was time to show off what I'd learned"

and a scope won't tell you if the signal coming out of "A" is the same signal going into "B"; you need learned ears to tell the difference
my personal favorite wire sound is the sound the wire strings makes when played well on a 58 Les Paul
 
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MatthewB.

Audioholic General
Bandphan, Monster dropped their price of their HDMI cables from 119.00 to 99.99 I think they have a long way to go to match online cable prices.

Noel Lee (The Cliff Notes version)

Noel Lee one day discovered that repackaging ordinary lamp cord wire and putting on directional arrows and charging 1,000X the cost of ordinary lamp wire was marketing genious. So he sold his soul to the devil down at the crossroads, made Billions and since Satan is in cahoots with all lawyers, Satan made sure to surround Mr. Lee with saavy minions who sue at the mere mention of a common word used daily in all forms of venicular. Not since the pet rock has a product sold more that did nothing that improved on the original product. Which begs to prove that yes, Virginia, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is afterall just a pig. The End
 
mtrycrafts

mtrycrafts

Seriously, I have no life.
Thomas Tusser once said,

"A fool and his money are soon parted!"

You cannot blame any American entrepreneur who invents a product based simply on getting rich due to the above axiom!!!
I don't think he invented a product. Wire has been around for a while before he cam on the scene:D
He just marketed it differently to the gullible public.
So, he is really not an engineer as he stated but a shrude businessman, even today.

ps, are you lost in that desert? Need help finding you:)
 
Patrick_Wolf

Patrick_Wolf

Audioholic
I'd like to take some good old fashioned lamp cord to Lee's neck.
 
CraigV

CraigV

Audioholic General
OK, let’s put thin into perspective. There are a lot of people who watch shows like “The Real World”, “Survivor” and “Americas Next Top Model” and think it’s great reality TV. They’re enthralled with “Dancing With The Stars” and “American Idol”. There are people willing to spend hundreds of dollars to see Barbara Streisand or Cher in concert, or a painting with a few color splotches on it, and call it art. In my radio market area, there are two self-important, smug arrogant DJ’s whom I would love to punch squarely in the face, but they’re shows are also the two top rated in a large market.

What do they all have in common with Mr. Noel? They all fill a segment of their particular market with a product which, like it or not, there is a market for. Now, I’m not trying to defend Monster and their business practices, but if it weren’t for the “fans” of their products, their products would cease to exist. If Mr. Noel hadn’t created Monster Cable, it’s likely someone else would have, and they would have people lining up to buy their products. There will always be people out there who’s views of the world differ from yours, mine, ours…etc. and unfortunately, there’s nothing to be done about it.
 
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