MONOPRICE Cables

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First in a series of looks at Monoprice cables - Stereo RCA

I will admit when I ordered these after discussing them with RR6 in another thread that I did not expect them to be anything worth listening to because of the price. I decided to keep an open mind. When they arrived I hooked the Monoprice up and listened expecting them to sound terrible. They did not. I hooked up a pair of out-of-the box cheapies and they DID sound terrible. At less than $5 shipped Monoprice, in my opinion, IS an inexpensive upgrade to out of the box cables.

I should probably explain to those interested, My DVD player is Integra Research's RDV-1 and has two outputs. I had my wife hook the Monoprice and a pair of Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 RCA up to my IR RDC-7 PRE/PRO at the DVD & CD inputs so I could switch back and forth between them with the remote. I then did not know which I was listening to when I switched, eliminating the placebo effect. There is a difference in sound, but not an immediate AHA that I expected. I picked out the Blue Jeans as the one I liked better but did not have time to listen enough to tell you why. Pleasantly surprised at the Monoprice for the money ! ! !

The pictures are of:
The invoice.
Out-of-the-box pair on left, Monoprice in the middle, Blue Jeans Cable on the right.
Close-up of the Monoprice.