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I am looking at the monoprice, banana plug screw-in
http://www.monoprice.com/products/produc...&seq=1&format=2


Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you screw this thing? it seems to run perpendicular to the plug, instead of connecting on the back.

You insert the cable through the hole and tighten them down.

I bought the axiom banana plugs and they work great, a little more pricey but the wire gets clamped down just like the speaker binding posts.

Did anyone see "The Fifth Estate" last week. It is an extremely well respected Canadian investigative reporting show that is famous for unearthing scandals and investigating interesting topics you might not see on the news.

They did a half hour bit on big box stores pushing overpriced HT accessories. Monster Cable was prime on their hit list.

Along with 3rd party visual inspections, they pretty much proved that a $200 dollar monster HDMI cable performed Exactly the same as a $20 dollar name brand. Because HDMI data is digital, they had a lab run both cables through a computer device that analyzed, bit for bit, the Hi Def data that was passing through them.

While not a single bit of data was lost or changed in the Monster cable, not a single bit of data was changed or lost in the twenty dollar version either.

Not getting into quality requirements for long lengths and such, this solidly proved that there is absolutely no reason to expect 'glorified' picture quality from a Monster HDMI cable, despite what the sales folks will tell you.

Also very interesting to hear the sales managers try to weasel out of whole thing when approached with the data from these tests.

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