Monster Cables Are The Rejected Spawn Of Satan

I really wish I was a good enough writer and a motivated enough person to be able to be a full time professional blogger. I think I’ve got the imagination and creativity, but I just don’t think I could pull it off. Being a pro blogger would probably be the only internet based job I could truly enjoy. Maybe someday…

Speaking of someday… I can’t wait to get our debt paid down to an acceptable level. I can’t even imagine what it will be like to be debt free, but I’m sure it’s magical and glorious! If there are any younger folks reading this… please… don’t fuck yourself over with credit card debt. Sure, it’s fun and awesome for a little while, but I promise you… it’s not worth it.

You know what else is not worth it… Monster Cables. Please… for the love of god… do not buy them. They were spawned by Satan himself in a fit of rage. Let’s say you want a 6 foot HDMI cable. You go to the store and there are two choices. They both do exactly the same thing, but one is $80 and one is $5. Which one do you choose? Well… due to pushy Best Buy sales people and super flashy and exciting packaging, a lot of people choose the 80 dollar cable. Now go look on Amazon. You can find a 10 foot HDMI cable that has a higher rating than any Monster cable you’ll ever find for a few bucks. The truth is… you cannot make an HDMI cable better than it already is. No matter how many features and benefits Monster claims to have thrown onto it’s cables, it won’t make a lick of difference in the quality. Same with audio cables… check this out:

Via Engadget HD:

We’ve always believed that the perceived quality boost that comes from using high-end cables is really just a trick of the mind (read: justifying the ridiculous cost of premium cables to yourself) — if you’ve dropped enough cash, you can probably hear anything you want. Still, our belief is one thing — cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed “audiophiles” recently couldn’t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers. The group was A-Bing different cables, and unbeknownst to them, the engineer running the test swapped out a set of cables for coat hangers with soldered-on speaker connections. Not a single one was then able to tell the difference between the Monster Cable and the hangers, and all agreed that the hangers sounded excellent. No wonder Monster has to rig HD displays.

Screw you, Monster.

Also… can’t wait to finally watch the LOST series finale… I’ll probably write down some thoughts about it sometime soon in a post. Man… no more LOST… weird…

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