Unlike a lot of cable manufacturers, MonsterCable is still around because they make a good product and know how to market it successfully. They'd be foolish not to expand their product offerings to the home theater/iPod crowd. It's called smart business.
Over the years, MonsterCable have made some excellent audiophile products including moving coil phono cartridges, power conditioners and of course, interconnects and speaker wire. Some of it may have been overpriced but WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CABLE INDUSTRY HERE! Selling a few bucks worth of wire at a 500% or 1000% markup is the industry's stock and trade. So, before we go comparing Monster Cable directly to Bose, we'd better get some perspective.
Would MonsterCable be my first recommendation? Probably not. But since Gammastrep already owns the cable, he might as well use it and see what he thinks. There are probably much better cables but everyone knows there's a lot of junk out there too marketed by fly-by-nighters that make laughable claims.
Over the years, MonsterCable have made some excellent audiophile products including moving coil phono cartridges, power conditioners and of course, interconnects and speaker wire. Some of it may have been overpriced but WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CABLE INDUSTRY HERE! Selling a few bucks worth of wire at a 500% or 1000% markup is the industry's stock and trade. So, before we go comparing Monster Cable directly to Bose, we'd better get some perspective.
Would MonsterCable be my first recommendation? Probably not. But since Gammastrep already owns the cable, he might as well use it and see what he thinks. There are probably much better cables but everyone knows there's a lot of junk out there too marketed by fly-by-nighters that make laughable claims.