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more about #monstercable more comments → ReconToaster misses garnett :(: man, the user reviews for this thing are brilliant! who are these people? #audio more » Pessimippopotamus: This is siemenly the mho-st useless product joule ever see. I really don't have the capacitance to understand who would pay that much farad something ... more » Software_Goddess: But it has a STAR! #audio more » parcreerio: Unfortunately, to fully hear the wonderfulness of this receptacle, you must get your utility to upgrade to oxygen-free linear crystal transmission lin... more » Jsqrd: I'm an electrician. If I could label a few .59 receps as audio grade, computer grade or iGrade, I'd be set. Hospital grade is about as good as rece... more » BlueBeard: Thanks a bunch, Satan! #audio more » LolpantsofArabia: While this is obviously bullshit, I do have a real problem with spikes in my (shitty, Middle Eastern) power supply causing my speakers to pop. Any sug... more » Skeptic: As "lakata" commented over on Boing boing, this is just a stock Leviton M5362 outlet, which retails for $14.30, but with some apparant gold plaiting, ... more » RainyDayInterns: Everyone knows that the "sound" is only as good as the air which carries it! The true audiophile will also want the "audio grade" air system which we... more » Monty: Clearly at that price this outlet must have a UPS unit attached, because that is the only time the audio difference would be detectable to us mere mor... more » -
#snakeoil
Wattgate 381 "Audio Grade" Socket Is For Suckers Only
The Wattgate "Audio Grade" wall socket costs a mere $147, but the crisp, unmatchable sounds it will create in your home are positively priceless. More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Microsoft Takes Aim at App Store's Useless Fluff...Monster Cable's Miles Davis Headphones Cost a Month's Rent...Baseless Analyst Speculation Over Google Hardware Makes Me Furious...New Partnership May Mean Cheaper Ebook Readers... More »
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#monstercable
Monster SuperThin HDMI Cables Really Are SuperThin
Monster's SuperThin HDMI cables aren't just marketing noise, they're real, and thinner than the anacondas most people have jacked into their TVs. RedMere's tech lets them skimp on heavy-gauge copper, so they're just 3.5mm around. More » -
#monstercable
Monster Cable Lowering Prices During Recession, Uh...Thanks?
Monster Cable, purveyors of grossly overpriced products, feel your pain during these tough financial times. That's why they are reducing their ridiculous prices to slightly less ridiculous prices during the recession. More » -
#monstercable
Engadget's Monster Cable Endorsement: "Monster Cable Sucks"
If you spotted this ad for Monster's Dr. Dre Beats headphones—which strips an out-of-context blurb from a news post—you'd think Engadget gave Monster Cable an awkward-sounding endorsement. But the mutilated sentence was lifted and applied without Engadget's permission. More » -
#monster
Monster Cable Sues Monster Transmission, Ensures Spot on DBag Company List of '09
Monster Cable, suer of an incredible number of companies that just happen to have the word "Monster" in their names, has turned their attention to Monster Transmission. They make transmissions. More » -
#hdmi
Monster Developing Ultra-Thin HDMI Cable
Monster Cable has teamed up with silicon chip developer Redmere to develop ultra-thin HDMI cable that deliver a 10.2 GB/s data rate. More » -
#ripoffs
Monster Offers White Version of Beats Headphones, Charges $700 For No Discernable Reason
If there's a company out there that engages in price gouging more blatantly than Monster, I've never heard of them. Today's offense: charging $700 for a pair of $350 headphones painted white. -
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#scams
Monster Knows You Need Five Different Sprays to Clean Your iPhone, Camera, Phone, GPS and Laptop
The professional bullshit artists and dumbass fleecers over at Monster have devised another way to remove money from the wallets of the ignorant: cleaning sprays. More » -
#monster
A Monster List of Things Monster Cable Will Soon Sue
Of all the things Monster Cable has sued because their names are too similar, a mini golf company seemed like a line even they wouldn't cross. We were wrong. Looking back at their history, founder Noel Lee & Co. have sued Disney for Monsters, Inc., Bally Gaming for Monster Slots slot machines, the people who make Monster Energy drinks, and the Chicago Bears, because their nickname is "Monsters of the Midway." Why stop here, Monster? We've got a whole list of people and things you should sue because you think your customers are too stupid to know the difference! Among them: Hillary Clinton, a deity, a baseball wall and a cartoon.
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#monstercable
Monster Cable Sues Monster Mini Golf For, You Guessed It, Name Confusion
If people ever decide to wake up and stop paying the huge markups for Monster Cable for technology that's not even here yet, Monster can go into another business: selling balls. They've sure got an excess, seeing as they're following up a suit against another cable company because the connectors are too similar with a suit against a MINI GOLF COMPANY because their NAMES ARE TOO SIMILAR. More » -
#monstercable
Blue Jeans Cable Calls BS on Monster Cable Patent Suit, Vows to Fight to Bloody Death
Bullshit patent suits are annoying when it's a do-nothing patent holder trying to extract cash from fat corporate wallets, but even more so when it's a bigger company trying to muscle over little ones. Like Monster Cable suing Blue Jeans Cable for having connectors that looked like theirs. Blue Jeans' CEO, a former evil lawyer, has issued a ripping rebuttal, pointing out that "the gross morphology of the RCA plug is pretty well dictated by function" before throwing down, "I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds." Here's the whole ballsy letter: More » -
#monstercable
Monster Cable Has Cojones of Steel, C&Ds Blue Jeans Cable Because Their Connectors Are Too Similar
It's really, really tough to like Monster Cable as a company. Everyone knows how they mark up their prices and how a coat hanger may even be as good as their cables under short distances, but their business practices aren't much better either. They're following up up their last legal maneuver against a clothing company with the unfortunate name of Monster Vintage by serving Blue Jeans Cable and Tartan Cable with a cease and desist because their cable connectors are too similar. Just look at the comparison above. Do they look too similar. Would you be confused if you saw the two? Which one of them has the "Monster" logo on it again? I can't tell. [Audio Junkies] -
#questionoftheday
Question of the Day: Do You Use Expensive Cable or Generic Cable?
The debate between expensive cable and generic cable has raged on for ages now, with the manufacturers of high-end products receiving quite a bashing for their high prices. So, even with all of the negative press about expensive cable being a waste of money, we have to ask: Do you use expensive cable or generic cable? More » -
#monstercable
The Real Reasons Monster Cables Cost So Much
We've really dug into whether Monster Cables (or other "premium" brands) are worth the extra cash you've gotta fork over, asking things lke, "Does it really make your audio/video more pristine?" or "Are they better than coat hangers?" And that's the wrong approach. What about the love, sweat and tears that go into making each and every cable? This comic from Joy of Tech rights our wrongs. [Joy of Tech via Digital Home Thoughts] -
#headphoneadapter
Monster Cable iCableLink Adapts Proper Earphones with iPhone
Monster Cable, the cablemonger that never saw an $80 cable worth $7 it didn't like, reaches deep downmarket with iCableLink, letting you use a proper set of earphones with your iPhone instead of the included stock iPod buds. Uncharacteristically, it's reasonably priced. More » -
#ces2008
Dr. Dre Creates Beats By Dr. Dre Headphones with Monster Cable
Dr. Dre, the Chronic King, is making his first foray into consumer electronics, releasing a pair of headphones with none other than Monster. The $400 headphones will indeed feature "rich deep bass—a Dr. Dre trademark." Here's what the Doctor himself has to say: More » -
#exclusive
Monster's New Cables Finally Priced and Mystery "Box" Category Revealed
I was wrong. Monster's new low low pricing isn't in the $30 range, like I said earlier. The 500 series I mentioned actually starts at $50 for a 1-meter cable. But it seems Monster left its lowest price level of cable out of the midnight announcement: Simply labeled the "box" level, it starts at $40, the cheapest price you will find for Monster. More » -
#monsterpricecut
Monster Announces Cheaper "Speed-Rated" HDMI Cables
Monster Cable's Noel Lee is about to play his next card: His move is to stratify his assorted cable offerings into five distinct categories, starting in the $30 range. Each category will be designated by a "speed rating," and will deliver "demonstrable difference in high-def image quality." But as many of you know, Gizmodo research has found that many cables determined too poor to carry 1080p signal in tests nevertheless do fine in real-world scenarios. More » -
#cables
Monster Cable for Life HDMI Upgrade Path Guarantees Format Compatibility for Life
Monster Cable's HDMI Cable for Life program guarantees that the cable will meet or exceed all HDMI performance requirements for life or they'll swap them. (And estimates that cables bought next month will be good for 3-5 years, until 4K and true 60 frame per second progressive signals become prevalent.) If only someone had made us this offer for our VCR's Coax cables we woudn't have had to upgrade to high end coax cables again and again! More » -
#hdmicablebattlemodo
The Truth About Monster Cable, Part 2 (Verdict: Cheap Cables Keep Up...Usually)
Last Monday, Brian and I had a chance to run down to Monster HQ in Brisbane, CA to run some tests for the HDMI Cable Battlemodo. More » -
#twopartquestion
Do You Wall or Table Mount Your Flat TV?
You following this Monster Cable debate we've been having? They showed us some tested differences between their cables and the cheap stuff. More » -
#cablefight
Attention Monster Haters: The Giz HDMI Cable Battlemodo Has Begun
Some of you might recall my recent article about Monster Cable. If you read it through, you'd remember it as the piece that outlined Monster's more credible scientific claims, culminating in my sober recommendation to buy a cheap HDMI cable first, then work your way up. (I got the impression that not all commenters actually read the story.)
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#fieldnotes
The Truth About Monster Cable
Hey guys: I just got back from meeting with Noel Lee from Monster Cable, along with a posse of affiliated ladies and gentlemen, and their heavy equipment. I was there to talk to them about the fact that they sell—and have convinced a lot of retailers to sell—very expensive cable ($120 for 2 meters, last I checked). At the same time, there are cheaper non-Monster cables available on the Internet. My simple question Why? resulted in an organized, technical 2-hour response. I won't give you the blow-by-blow, but I have information that might make this debate interesting, and a bit more three-dimensional.
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#monster
Monster iFreePlay Headphones Turn 2G iPod Shuffle Into Headgear
Tired of all the pocket (or shirt, if you're a tool) real estate your iPod shuffle takes up? Monster's iFreePlay cordless headphones (which look extremely familiar) let you jack your shuffle directly into a side dock built into the left ear. More » -
#homeentertainment
HDMI Cable Ripoff Continues, Cable Prices Go Even Lower Elsewhere
Monster Cable and its accomplices continue to rip off unsuspecting consumers, charging $119.99 at retail for a 2-meter HDMI cable (there's its portrait at left). Oh, wait, Amazon sells that same Monster Cable for $75.88. On the other hand, Firefold sells a 6-foot HDMI cable for $5.71, the lowest price we've seen yet. That's a difference of $73.17. More » -
#gadgets
Yahoo, Monster Cable Join Anti-DRM Front
Could the tide be turning against DRM? First Stevey Jobs wrote his letter against DRM, then EMI explored selling their catalogue DRM-free. Now Yahoo and Monster Cable are on the DRM-must-die bandwagon. More » -
#deals
HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?
Yesterday we mentioned Best Buy selling Monster HDMI cables for upwards of $80, and reader Todd pointed us to a website offering no-name 6-foot HDMI cables for $6.37. Taking a quick glance at the Best Buy website, there's an HDMI Cable that's 2 feet shorter, a 4-foot length from Monster Cable for $149.99. The lowest-priced HDMI Cable we could find there was a 3-foot length by Acoustic Research for the relative bargain price of $72.99. More » -
#ces
Live from CES: Dumb Companies Who Lie
Joel Johnson—Not once, but multiple times this year at CES I have been told by exhibitors that photographing items on the show floor is off limits. The first time, at the Monster Cable booth, I was told by a booth jockey that there were no photos allowed unless I had a press badge (I did), despite the fact that the item I was photographing was facing the aisle through which tens of thousands of CES attendees passed. More »
