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**sirbogey** · 12 April 2006, 10:09 Wednesday

If you order all this (or even partial orders), your dealer should be happy to throw in decent cables for free. At least that's what happened to me. And they were all cut to my specifications.

Otherwise I've heard good things about Monster cables.

**Race Car Driver** · 12 April 2006, 10:21 Wednesday

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, the forum sponsor, Cat Cables, you have some choices there, but other there are also other choices.
See what your dealer will do for you with cables and go from there.

**Navin R. Johnso** · 12 April 2006, 11:10 Wednesday

It sort of breaks down to your beliefs/preferences:
-If you think cables don't matter much at all as long as they can carry a signal, then just use what comes in the box and get the rest at Radio Shack (non Monster ones).
-If you're a little unsure and want to buy some piece of mind, then check cat cables or some other resonably priced suppliers you can find mentioned in boards like these.
-If you think they're really important then ask your dealer what they recommend and get ready to open your wallet wide!

"Quality" in this realm quickly moves from the measurable to the subjective.

**Clepto** · 12 April 2006, 14:52 Wednesday

Originally posted by sirbogey

Otherwise I've heard good things about Monster cables.

:E

Where!? While monster cables are 'ok'... they're definitely overpriced for what you get... Most people would say Monster took a page out of the Bose Marketing Handbook...

Personally, I buy decent but cheaper cables, as you can get same calliber quality as monster cables for half the price. I.e. the 'Best Buy Blue Cables'

**wkhanna** · 12 April 2006, 16:25 Wednesday

You mention some very nice gear in your post. I feel the 20% rule is a safe and practical method for dealing with cabling. In other words, if I had a total system valued at 10k, I would budget roughly 2k on cables. Higher quality systems tend to ‘display’ the nuances of cables more than low and mass-market equipment.

I highly recommend you get in touch with Doug at Cat Cables. I will never use M* brand. I make both these recommendations from first hand personal experience.

**Shawn Parr** · 12 April 2006, 18:48 Wednesday

Personally I own some Monster stuff. Both higher end Pro stuff (which is not as high end as the really high end consumer stuff) and some midrange consumer stuff. M1000 and M500 for the pro, M350i and M500i for the consumer stuff.

I recently got some Cat cables and have to say they are very nicely put together. I bought a Coolcat and a pair of BlueTigers and the build quality is really great. They also while outwardly having the same bulk as the M350i's, inside they have a bit more copper, and while there may or may not be more to cables than that, thicker cables (thus having less resistance) tends to be better.

In this case the Monster's are cheaper, but the quality of the Cat clearly outshines them, and makes the Cat's a better value IMHO. I haven't done any listening tests with them at this time, but my hifi system frankly isn't up to snuff, and they would be hard to integrate into my studio.

**bulitnv** · 12 April 2006, 22:29 Wednesday

How would Audioquest cables compare?

Chris

**Kevin D** · 12 April 2006, 23:15 Wednesday

Some good comments, but I'm going to have to lock this thread per forum rules:

Limit Cable Discissions - HTGuide's owner and main sponsor (Doug A.K.A. Lex and owner of www.catcables.com) has found from many years experience that cable discussions can get way out of hand quickly - so there are special restrictions on them such as they can't be the main topic of discussion (i.e. the thread) and there can be no links to websites that are purely on-line cable brands. So - if you want to talk cables - try PMs or go elsewhere!

Thanks,

Kevin D.

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