Re: Any value to a Monster Cable 3000 Mhz splitter over standard 900 Mhz splitter?

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I used the "higher octane Premium gas  =  useless waste of $$$ for use inaverage (non-high compression) engines" analogy because I assumed it was anaptly fitting metaphor.  But here you seem to be suggesting otherwise.  Areyou hereby inferring then that Monster Cable is trying to market a moreexpensive product which (unlike the the more expensive higher-octane gas, inmy analogy) there literally exists NO practical justification for whatsoever(e.g. not even for use with satellite...)??Pardon me for dragging this out, but I go into the local store where I'vebeen fed the above 'Monster Cable promo' spiel a couple of times, andbriefly chat with the sales reps and other personnel there on a regularbasis.  The subject will inevitably come up between myself and one of thesefellas again.  So I just want to be sure of all my facts before theopportunity again arises to call them 'on the carpet', as it were, toaccount for their claim.Ken

Noah Little · Accepted Answer

After getting a heavy-handed pitch to buy some M*nster interconnects to go with a new Velodyne woofer, I asked the young clerk if he was aware that there had never been a valid double-blind test in which anyone could hear a difference, and it stopped him cold.

It was true at the time; anyone know whether it still is?

tom_b42 · Answer

Do a Google on "monster cable comparison test" or such language.TomNoah Little wrote:

St. John Smythe · Answer

Don't keep us in suspenders!-- St. JohnNOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Peter Baltus · Answer

Hi Ken,maybe I can save you some work here ;-) The television signals from terrestrialand cable TV run from low frequencies up to about 900MHz. Satelite signals comein at around 2GHz (12000MHz) and are downconverted in the "low-noise blockconverter" or LNB (the box with the horn in front of the actual satelite dish) to afrequency range between 1 and 2GHz and are then sent through the coaxial cableto the satelite receiver that typically sits near the TV. There, the signal gets convertedto something that a normal television can make sense of. So, if you want to split thesignal coming from the LNB (i.e. from the dish) to e.g. multiple satelite receivers(e.g. one in the living room and one in the bedroom) then a splitter for frequenciesup to 2GHz is actually required.Hope this helps somewhat...    Peter

Ken Moiarty · Answer

Thanks for you reply. I hadn't specifically checked the sci.electronics.misc group for non-crossposted replies, so I was unaware that you had posted the information that I was asking for; that is until reading it just now. Thanks again.

Ken

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