Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excellent digital cable, even if it is a bit overpriced.
Comment: In response to the previous negative review from "An electronics fan from Houston, Texas," this is a digital audio interconnect cable. It does not run from your DVD player to your TV. It runs from the digital coaxial audio output jack on the DVD player to a digital audio input on a Dolby Digital/DTS surround sound receiver.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lost in the cable world
Comment: As you know I just bought this cable along with the Panasonic DVD-RV31K as you people suggested. Very unfortunately I have no information either in the cable package nor in the player's manual on HOW OR WHERE TO INSTALL this cable from the palyer to my TV set (Sony KV-32S45). Please guide me where or whom to call for this information; otherwise, I'm going to return this cable to you. Thank you in advance for you help. Happy holidays.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great product for the price
Comment: I have used this and the optical cable. For $20 less, it sounds just as good. Monster cable is a great price point investment for anyone who wants to get the most out of their home theater system.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another example of marketing hype...
Comment: ...designed to lift money from the wallets of the American public. If one is to transmit digital signals like those that come from the back of DVD and CD players reliably, 100% shielding is a basic requirement. This cable is not 100% shielded; look for foil in addition to the copper braid. Further, digital signals don't care about super low resitance or impedance. If the bits get there, the amplitude is incidental once a sufficient level is achieved. Over a distance of >10feet, big and fat are just to make you feel good about spending $40 on a $5 piece of hardware. *see below for a possible exception to this. Thirdly, if you don't have balanced electronics, what difference could an unbalanced cable with RCA interconnects make? RCA connectors will never be 75ohm connectors; they will never be balanced. The arrows are mostly to make you feel good about your purchase. Usually it simply indicates the company specs that any drains are attatched at the end to which the arrows point. If you have such a grounding problem as to cause interference in your playback, an RCA will never cure anything. As a feel good genuflection to the audiphile gods, attach all your arrowed interconnects with the arrow pointing the same way. And lastly, look into VSWR and how the design of this RCA affects it. The large diameter of this cable and therefore the diameter of it's dielectric might help here, but if you can see the solder job, the chance of unhealthy levels of VSWR is greater in that once the signal reaches this RCA, the differences between the RCA's shielding, and other properties, and the properties of the coaxial cable are sudden and definite. If you have the money to spend and like to massage your cables as you install them, this company makes some nice looking/feeling stuff. Not surprising in the world of audio--big marketing hype over substance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice FAT cable with great connectors and LOW resistance
Comment: This cable is SO wide! It is polarized (there is an arrow on the end that goes to your reciever/tv)
Summary: Excellent digital cable, even if it is a bit overpriced.
Comment: In response to the previous negative review from "An electronics fan from Houston, Texas," this is a digital audio interconnect cable. It does not run from your DVD player to your TV. It runs from the digital coaxial audio output jack on the DVD player to a digital audio input on a Dolby Digital/DTS surround sound receiver.
If you don't have a surround sound set-up, you don't need this cable. All of this is covered in your manuals and on the Monster Cable packaging. Don't be afraid to read those manuals.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lost in the cable world
Comment: As you know I just bought this cable along with the Panasonic DVD-RV31K as you people suggested. Very unfortunately I have no information either in the cable package nor in the player's manual on HOW OR WHERE TO INSTALL this cable from the palyer to my TV set (Sony KV-32S45). Please guide me where or whom to call for this information; otherwise, I'm going to return this cable to you. Thank you in advance for you help. Happy holidays.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great product for the price
Comment: I have used this and the optical cable. For $20 less, it sounds just as good. Monster cable is a great price point investment for anyone who wants to get the most out of their home theater system.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another example of marketing hype...
Comment: ...designed to lift money from the wallets of the American public. If one is to transmit digital signals like those that come from the back of DVD and CD players reliably, 100% shielding is a basic requirement. This cable is not 100% shielded; look for foil in addition to the copper braid. Further, digital signals don't care about super low resitance or impedance. If the bits get there, the amplitude is incidental once a sufficient level is achieved. Over a distance of >10feet, big and fat are just to make you feel good about spending $40 on a $5 piece of hardware. *see below for a possible exception to this. Thirdly, if you don't have balanced electronics, what difference could an unbalanced cable with RCA interconnects make? RCA connectors will never be 75ohm connectors; they will never be balanced. The arrows are mostly to make you feel good about your purchase. Usually it simply indicates the company specs that any drains are attatched at the end to which the arrows point. If you have such a grounding problem as to cause interference in your playback, an RCA will never cure anything. As a feel good genuflection to the audiphile gods, attach all your arrowed interconnects with the arrow pointing the same way. And lastly, look into VSWR and how the design of this RCA affects it. The large diameter of this cable and therefore the diameter of it's dielectric might help here, but if you can see the solder job, the chance of unhealthy levels of VSWR is greater in that once the signal reaches this RCA, the differences between the RCA's shielding, and other properties, and the properties of the coaxial cable are sudden and definite. If you have the money to spend and like to massage your cables as you install them, this company makes some nice looking/feeling stuff. Not surprising in the world of audio--big marketing hype over substance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice FAT cable with great connectors and LOW resistance
Comment: This cable is SO wide! It is polarized (there is an arrow on the end that goes to your reciever/tv)
Heres the stats from a fluke 75III:
Correct polarity:
Data link: .00 OHMS resistance
Ground : .00 OHMS resistance
Incorrect polarity:
Data link: .03 OHMS resistance
Ground : .01 OHMS resistance
I'm really impressed with the wire/insulation and soldering job they did! Not to mention the turbine coaxial connecter (click on the picture for a close up, NICE!)
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