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Who or what is Monoprice?

#82
DWBass said:
How would they make any money, from a business standpoint, doing it this way?
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Well, I'm speculating here but... Many companies don't actually make the products they sell. Someone else makes them then they do final assembly, packaging, or other minimal finishing operations. I'm guessing monoprice finds the companies who actually make the stuff (most of which are overseas I'm sure), buy it at wholesale then sell it at a much smaller markup than the "name" brand. So its literally the exact same product, but cheaper.

Again I don't know enough about their practices to say for certain, but I suspect that is what's happening.
 
#83
What the consumer needs to realize is that in many cases a measured difference in cable performance (data bit line rise and fall times, for instance) does not necessarily make a difference in performance in their application. As long as the bit transitions in time for the receiver to strobe and register the bit, it doesn't matter how much faster one cable delivered it than another. Likewise in the analog world, even if an audio cable has lower capacitance and therefore a higher hi freq rolloff point, if that rolloff point is over, say, 100kHz, who cares?
 
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#84
Last week I was shopping for 3 shorter length mic cables for my PA. Checked out Monoprice. Unless I missed something they do not offer cables with Neutrik brand connectors. Great prices, though. So I went with my favorite...Bayou Audio Cables. His prices compete with Northern Sound & Light and I'm getting product that I have experience with (Canare and Neutrik). I don't need cable failures on the gig. And there is a degree of satisfaction in supporting the little guy.

M. M. :)
 
#87
I recently bought one of their mic cables. It's 16ga and way beefy! I also bought one of their premium headphone extension cables for an IEM setup. It's massively overbuilt to the point of overkill so I just ordered one of their "designed for mobile" extension cables because they're a lot more low profile.
 
#91
Yes I have the pedal tuner. It's great! It's a little more accurate than my Apex clip-on headstock tuner and very fast to respond.

EDIT: Re the above post, I concur. The 9V input is recessed a little too far for some barrel connectors. My boss adapter wasn't long enough to make a connection, but my Godlyke Powerall is. Also, the Monoprice daisy-chain for pedal power does fit (surprise surprise) so my Powerall plugs into that, which in turns connects to all my 9V pedals including the tuner.
 
#92
I use MP for most cables and they're basically ok. You get what you pay for though. They seem to be comparable to, but a a lot cheaper than, the house brand at BestBuy and may well be from the same factories. I have a cloth 20 foot guitar cable that is fine. I recently got a couple of lightning cables from them that crapped out after only a month or so. I'm in the market for a pedal tuner and at an on sale price of $15.27 may try it.
 
#95
smeet said:
I got some nice-looking 1/4" guitar cables from them. They were so unbelievably microphonic I just threw them in the garbage. Unusable.

Maybe microphonic is the wrong word. If you touched the cable, or walked on the ground near where the cable sat, you heard it through the amp, nice and clear.
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I had this happen to me once, but in a store. I asked for an instument cable and took what he gave me. I was noticing my bass was particularly noisy, constantly humming. I tried reversing the polarity on the amp, I went so far as to remove the electronics from the bass (G&L SB-2) and resolder all the wires, every thing looked fine. I was like a week before it dawned on my to inspect the cable. Took the cap off the connector and sure enought, speaker wire. dooh!
 
#96
Gravedigger Dav said:
I had this happen to me once, but in a store. I asked for an instument cable and took what he gave me. I was noticing my bass was particularly noisy, constantly humming. I tried reversing the polarity on the amp, I went so far as to remove the electronics from the bass (G&L SB-2) and resolder all the wires, every thing looked fine. I was like a week before it dawned on my to inspect the cable. Took the cap off the connector and sure enought, speaker wire. dooh!
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Yeah, I've since discovered the only instrument cables monoprice sells are the cloth ones, which work fine. The rubbery ones are speaker cable. Doh indeed.
 
#97
I got the Fuzz Mini Pedal today. I'm going to test it straight up against my Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi - which I am already kind of disappointed with. This will be interesting as I'll be floored if the the Monoprice pedal has the sound I wanted all along. In that case I'll be returning the DBBM!
 
#98
smeet said:
Perhaps I'm an idiot.

This is what I ordered:
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Are these really speaker cables??? Yes, it says 16AWG, which is big for instrument cable.
But it also says: "It uses 16 AWG stranded, pure copper conductors and employs copper braid shielding with 97.5% coverage to ensure that stray radio frequency and electromagnetic signals do not degrade the audio quality of your performance."

It also says this:

Which points to links that clearly say "instrument cable".

So, what did I order, and how am I supposed to tell if it's speaker cable? From the comments on the site, other people also think they are guitar cables.
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I'm wondering why the hell they would put shielding on 16 AWG cables, which would obviously be loudspeaker cables!
 
#99
Monoprice is the layman word for the technical term Static Growth.

Static Growth is a theory or rather an ideology developed by the great Sweedish professor Mono E. Price (1910-1984), who had a doctor degree in international economy at Stockholm University.

Simply put it advocates for all products, including payed services, to have the same price, no matter the production cost.

The goal is to avoid unwanted fluctuation and following inflation of the currency and devaluation of the market value.

In other words: By monotizing the the value of the market as a whole, you avoid unrest in the overall consumption pattern of the consumers, leading to a stable economy with a static growth rate approximating zero percent.
 
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#100
OK - tested the Fuzz Mini Pedal against the Deluxe Big Muff. Long story short, the DBBM is going back to Sam Ash. Don't get me wrong, the Monoprice pedal is no Big Muff but for what I need it gives it to me in spades. The Muff is more "hi-fi" sounding. The Mini Fuzz is all lo-fi dirt and synth-grunge sound which is what I'm totally after - especially with an octaver kicked in. The up front girth this little pedal achieves is pretty impressive. When you turn the main knob all the way to Bass Fuzz it is ear drum rattling. It's a one trick pony but I love that one trick.
 

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