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Why Monster |
- WARRANTY. Monster has a decent product warranty. It's really pretty simple if you read it. 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. 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 products are known to typically provide the best sound and picture from their products.
- DESIGN. Monster 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 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 surge proectors 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. See the Surgegate section for further considerations.
- 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? If you believe this, email us and we will email you something that disproves this. The UL1449 spec they like to quote *requires* a common mode surge test, why would they have the test if they were not important? Also, see below as to why they still claim they pass UL1449 despite having no common mode protection. Monster protects against common mode surges. Also, series mode proponents claim that other protectors have short lifetimes, while theirs does not (gee, they did tell you that). Imagine if you will numerous Monster protectors failing within their 3 year, 5 year, or lifetime warranties, do the math and figure how many per day would be replaced if that were the case, you'll find it is many thousands, would they still be in businesss? Make sense? Another claim is that Monster shunts 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 (gee, they forgot that part also). 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 protected against those types of surges... Oh, and while they say "mode 2" protection is bad, they forget to mention they 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. We can direct you to web sites that discuss what happens with phone lines and surge protection in such a scenario. 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, we can provide information on that as well. Finally, most of the ones we've seen do NOT guarantee they will protect your system, Monster does! Now why would that be?
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