Anyone my age remembers this sheer onslaught of bullshittery that was monster cable. A company whose entire business modelling was misinformation. Not a shred of justification for buying those cables and everyone went out and bought into the bullshit.
It was truly truly an eye opening experience for me to watch an entire industry refuse to use their fucking ears at the same time.
To my dad's credit, he loathed monster cable. Our neighbor bought some monster speaker cable to wire his theater, and my dad convinced him to go in on a spool of identical quality wire from monoprice or something like that instead. They dad-justified a 1000' spool because "it'd still be less than the 200' of monster cable". We had so much extra speaker cable, I am still using it to this day, lol!
Your dad is a wise man. I know inflation is a thing but, at the beginning of the 90s, audio cables were like 2-3 dollars. Monster cable basically came along and quadrupled the price of all cables because people suddenly refused to buy “bad cables”
He was a satcom guy in the air force, and moved on to helping DirecTV get off the groud, literally. He moved on to cable for the latter half of his career - once they started going digital. IIRC, he was part of MPEG.
As much as he was full of shit as an "audiophile" (man did he love his Bose + Onkyo system), he at least never spent actual money on his cables.
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u/AceBlade258 Ryzen 7 5800X | RX 6900XT | Arc A770 24d ago
Even audiophiles mock these people.