Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power Review

For an explanation, do a Google Search for "Ten Biggest Lies In Audio" or visit this link: www dot theaudiocritic dot com/downloads/article_1.pdf and scroll to the part where he talks about fancy cables and about power conditioners.

Having surge protection is indeed important, and you can find a decent surge protector with multiple outlets for wire management well under a hundred bucks, with power backup...Belkin makes very good ones with a far more reasonable price to performance ratio, as does TrippLite and American Power Conversion (APC).More like forty to eighty bucks, really.And more than adequate to cover expensive HD TVs and components...don't let those silly salespeople at big-box chains scare you into thinking that you need anything more!

What is complete and shameless SNAKE OIL though, is any claim that a so-called "power conditioner" is somehow going to give you better audio and video quality.Unless you are living in some 200 year old house with 100 year old wiring in the middle of nowhere, there is ZERO scientific basis for these claims: just total sales BS.

My boss got this Monster "PowerCenter" and while it does look kind of cool on his shelf with all the flashing lights and LED numbers, we did an audio and video comparison with a cheap $30 surge protector (no backup power supply) and guess what?Identical sound and video.He kept the Monster unit though, since he's filthy rich and likes cool-looking gadgets.But he had to admit that I was dead right.

Also, the instruction booklet that comes with this unit is entirely useless.It's basically an advertising brochure telling you how great Monster is as a company, as a way of getting you to buy more Monster products.It doesn't bother to even tell you simple things like should you keep this unit turned on all the time, or turn it on only when you're using your HT system.It also doesn't explain the different groups of power outlets on the back, i.e. why there are even different groupings at all and what each grouping actually does differently.

Monster seems to work on the same marketing principle as Bose: produce sleek-looking products of dubious quality that are ridiculously overpriced and overhyped, counting on the average Joe to naively believe that he's getting what he's paying up the nose for, and invest tons of money on saturation advertising in order to establish name-brand recognition.

In general, don't get snookered by the whole Monster scam.Same with their fancy cables which big-box electronics stores love to push---generic cables from Walmart and Home Depot will do the job just as well for a fraction of the cost.Spend the savings on better electronics (again, other than the TVs, you can find much better components buying online and especially from Internet-direct manufacturers) and actual DVDs and CDs.

Great places to do your research and get advice would be online discussion groups like AVS Forum, Ecoustics, and hometheaterforum dot com.Oh, and the other rule of thumb: never, ever buy Bose.Do your homework and you'll find out why very quickly and clearly.

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