The stock cable has a toslink out on the cable. The Monster brand has a proprietary connection instead of a toslink(1/8th mini jack). So if you want digital audio(and you do if you sprung for the Monster component cable), you are REQUIRED you to buy their optical cable in order to get the mini jack to toslink convertor. This tool is designed to mathematically and visually show the differences between two files. It creates a new image, where pixels are colour red to show that there’s a difference between the two Trust me, you will hear the difference. I used to play Monster Rock 12 ft cables (which are good strong cables), but I took a chance to upgrade. I'm glad I did because it really is an upgrade. This cable sounds better by a mile. The 18 ft mogami sounds better than the 12 ft Monster Rock. That should tell you something. USB version 2 A-B cables. These are the classic USB cables with a “house-shaped” connector on one end and a rectangular, spade-shaped connector on the other. This is commonly utilized in printers, old hard drives, and even some audio devices. Hang on to a couple of these for now, especially when you own the gadgets we’ve just mentioned. Your overpriced, certified cables will almost certainly pass 4K content, no problem. For us mortals that would rather not get burned on $100-a-foot HDMI cables (when $1-a-foot cables work equally Yes I think we could almost all agree that Monster Cable is a decent cable for an instrument cable, but it is too stiff, definetely agreen on that, my Monster Studio Pro Cable can get uncomfortable sometimes it coils up, not flexible and on top of all that, it is too expensive and I can say I will also agree on that it's big marketing or I know most consider Monster Cable to be over-hyped and overpriced & I tend to agree. However, a local audio/video store is going out of business and all The cables are plugged in my HDTV along with 3 HDMI cables and I usually use surround sound when playing Wii and there is a modem/router sitting next to my Wii. I wouldn't waste money on monster cables and I don't see how the Nintendo branded cables would be much better than what I have now. 1nAQs3.

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