monster cables worth it??

[TexRoadkill]

The best thing to do is to find a video guy, because they are more anal about over undering their cable than anyone. You try coiling 300 feet of video five wire some time without over undering it. It does not work so well.

Lol, On my first internship at a TV station we were verbally raped for any sloppy cable wrapping. Over/under isn't really that big of a deal for single cables but any time you coil a long multi cable snake it is a neccesity. The main reason for the over/under is that the coil is so damn heavy it has to stay on the floor and the snake is so long you cant twist the cable to get it to coil right without the little flip. When you are using cable that costs hundreds per foot you definately don't want to screw it up.

I have spent days doing nothing but coiling cables. Days... It's become a Zen thing now and I kind of enjoy it. Until some asshole starts doing the 'around the arm' wrap and then it completely destroys my chakra.

 

[Chris Fallen]

Re: Thanks frank

Where can I learn how to make my own cables? Where did you you guys learn?

 

[sweetnubs]

go with mogami. A cable's quality is a simple measurement of a cable's capacitance. I sat down years ago and measured the capacitance of various cables including mogami, canare, hosa, belden, monster, etc. Mogami won. also the guage of the cable is important. go 14# or less. making your own mogami cables isn't really that expensive and is cheaper than buying off the shelf monster cables.

 

[frank_1]

http://recordingwebsite.com/articles/cables.html

http://markertek.com/

http://www.geocities.com/tcsound_1999/Tip04HowtoSolder.htm

http://www.colomar.com/Shavano/soldering.html

http://homerecording.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Solder0962934273.htm

 

[evhwanabe]

I didnt see where anyone post this yet but I do believe that Monster cables have a lifetime warranty! I have had to replace my $50 25ft guitar cable 2 times but all you do is take it to GC and they give ya a new one no questions asked! Thats worth it for me! even though I just went wireless! hehe

 

[Jagular]

Mogami with gold connectors, $28 at Full compass... not expensive at all..
Canare cables from markertek, $25, not expensive at all...
I have em both, both excellent. See my thread in the mic section about cables...

I just got my all my pretty color coded (so I can tell what' what easier) pre-made Canare cables. Six 10 ft runs with various connectors to match my gear & 1010lt for about $100 plus shipping. Not too bad.

Now if I can just get my computer fixed so I have something to plug into

 

[sloop]

I will take some heat for this

My brother used to work in the wire industry. He worked at the plant that made the wire for Monster cable. They tested monster cable against plain 12guage house wire from 5 hz to 100,000hz. The difference was so small they couldn't acurately measure it--all done in a Faraday cage with Mil-spec gear.

Don't waste your money--buy good quality cable and build your own.

 

[frank_1]

... and a bump...

 

[lpdeluxe]

If you do a search you'll find a lot of websites devoted to testing cables. I've read Monster's ads and they are long on BS and short on facts. They make assertions about the propagation of signals through the core that no one has ever tested or validated. One thing that made me suspicious of Monster is that they NEVER publish their specs...no gauge info, especially, which is an important parameter for speaker cables, for example. I bought a Monster "Bass Guitar" cable years ago and it's purty -- pinkish translucent jacket -- and has very high quality braided shielding visible through the jacket, but I sure can't tell a difference in the sound between that and a Planet Waves or one that I've soldered up myself from Radio Shack cable and ends. Everything I have read (including in some of the "audiophile" magazines, where faddishness rules) says that a cable's performance can be defined by its gauge, capacitance, core material and the quality of its connectors. I've got 25 year old mic cables that are fine...as long as I can keep youngsters from wrapping them around their elbows!

 

[royharper3220]

so what makes one cable better than the next (sound wise)? is it just capacitance?lpdeluxe listed some things that effect performance but all those are things that effect capacitance.