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 We sell Monster Power Centers and have extensive knowledge of Monster surge protectors. We carry the Monster Power warranty and are listed on their web site as an authorized dealer under Power Systems. We stock our Monster Power conditioners, and they are Monster Power warranted too (not supposedly store warranted). Monster Cable Power products are relatively new to the home theater surge protection market, but they have some excellent surge protector products. Warranties vary by product so be sure and check out each products details.
Our Monster Power surge protectors are BRAND NEW, US marketed, and unused unless specifically stated otherwise, no gray market items. We do not sell reconditioned or refurbished items unless noted clearly. Contact us if you find a lower price or better overall deal on a Monster surge protector from an authorized dealer.
Reasons to go with Monster Power:
WARRANTY. Monster Power has a decent product warranty. It's really pretty simple if you read it. And don't mess with gray market and store warranted Monster, you want the Monster Power warranty. Monster actually pays if damage ever does occur. Obviously, the idea is to never use the warranty. The only point is if it ever should happen, you really can collect. We've seen one web site that said that if a product was good, it shouldn't have a warranty. Huh? We would say if a product was good, why not have a warranty! Thinking of using your homeowners insurance instead? Good luck! Be sure and check with your insurance company as to the claims procedure for lightning damage (and they do not cover regular surges). You will NOT believe how hard it will be and how much time it will take. I spent over 40 hours once trying to collect on lightning damage from homeowners insurance, and gave up, I was nowhere near done and it had cost me a good bit of money.
SOUND. Monster Power products are known to typically provide the best sound and picture from their products. They are fantastic line filtering capabilities.
DESIGN. Monster Power products leave no detail out. From 12 volt triggers, to triggering via AC cable, convenience and ease of use are the keys. Easy to get to switches, clearly color coded and labelled outlets, good product manuals. Superb, appealing design! Some products are unique to Monster, such as the AVS2000 voltage stabilizer.
PROTECTION. Monster Power products are designed to protect ALL signal paths into and out of your system. It does little to no good to purchase a protector that only protects your AC outlets, in fact, this can make things worse. you must protect all your signals. Do not be fooled into thinking that little phone company device hooked near your box outside the house (called a network interface device) will protect you against all surges. We've heard numerous reports of damage through the phone lines. The same applies to coax and satellite lines.
JOULES. Monster has designed their products to provide the highest Joule protection ratings we know of.
RESPONSE TIME. Monster Cable surge protectors have a response time of less than 1 nanosecond. This is critical in protecting from surges! If you have a UPS or are considering one, please note that most of them provide a 5NS response time, this is NOT good. Also, a question to ask if you are considering a UPS is does it protect all the signal paths? Also, please be aware that UPSs add LOTS of noise to an audio/video system, you will greatly reduce the quality of your system with a UPS.
PROTECTION and "Series Mode". What about series mode protection? Series mode protection by itself is good, but has some weaknesses. One major weakness is that common mode impulses generated by in house surges or other types of surges are unprotected by a series mode surge protector, bet they didn't tell you that. Or, maybe they said they do not occur or are not large enough to cause any damage? The UL1449 spec they like to quote *requires* a common mode surge test, why would they have the test if it was not important? Also, see below as to why they still claim they pass UL1449 despite having no common mode protection. Monster Power surge protectors protect against common mode surges. Also, series mode proponents claim that other protectors have short lifetimes, while theirs does not. The manufacturer of the components used for AC protection rates their product as having a lifetime of 500 years if you had a direct hit by lightning on your power feed once per year (IEEE 500 amp test pulse). Or, you could easily handle 100,000 100 amp surges. Another claim is that Monster Power surge protectors shunt all surges to ground. Not so! Surges are diverted to neutral and ground, making all 3 phases have the same potential, meaning no downstream damage, unlike the claims. Also, they claim that mode 2 protectors inflate by massive factors the ground reference, we can direct you to sources in the power industry that says this can happen without *any* mode 2 protector, the case is vastly overstated, and since they do not protect against those types of surges... Series mode protectors really do NOT pass the UL1449 rating as that requires passing the mode 2 protection test, it is part of the UL1449 spec. They get out of it by not having ANY protection except for hot-neutral, and therefore there is nothing to test, all semantics. Which means other types of surges are *completely* unprotected. Ask them what happens during a prolonged surge, as in 10 seconds, or minutes say during an ice storm. Also, if the surge exceeds their rated capacity, any coil design gets overloaded, and overloaded coils pass through the voltage. If they tell you you cannot possibly get a surge in excess of 6,000 volts, wrong again. Finally, most of the ones we've seen do NOT guarantee they will protect your system, Monster Power does! Now why would that be?
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