Buy Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean PowerMonster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power Product Description:
- Monster Clean Power; Stage 2 v.2.1 circuitry filter dramatically reduces electronic noise.
- T2: automatic disconnect/reconnect protection circuitry. $350,000 Connected Equipment Warranty.
- Tri-Mode: power protection circuitry with audible alarm and auto disconnect.
- 3618 Joule rating provides a high level of surge absorption.
Product Description
Model no. mp hts 1600 8 color-coded outlets digital meter displays voltage provides ac power protection for home theater components & surge protected coax phone & network connections protects cable satellite tivo(r) phone & network monster(r) clean power(tm) stage 2 v2.1 circuitry filter dramatically reduces electronic noise tri-mode(tm) power protection with audible alarm & auto disconnect 3618 joules provide high level surge absorption features 2 pairs of surge-protected 2.5 ghz coaxial connectors 1 pair of surge-protected phone connectors including splitter & pair of network connectors
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454 of 590 people found the following review helpful.
By Eduardo Nietzsche
For an explanation, do a Google Search for "Ten Biggest Lies In Audio" or visit this link: [ ... ] and scroll to the part where he talks about fancy cables and about power conditioners.Having surge protection is indeed important, and you can find a decent surge protector with multiple outlets for wire management well under a hundred bucks, with power backup...Tripplite makes probably the best ones with a far more reasonable price to performance ratio, as does American Power Conversion (APC) and (most of the time) Belkin. More like forty to eighty bucks, really. And more than adequate to cover expensive HD TVs and components...don't let those silly salespeople at big-box chains scare you into thinking that you need anything more!What is complete and shameless SNAKE OIL though, is any claim that a so-called "power conditioner" is somehow going to give you better audio and video quality. Unless you are living in some 200 year old house with 100 year old wiring in the middle of nowhere, there is ZERO scientific basis for these claims: just total sales BS.My boss got this Monster "PowerCenter" and while it does look kind of cool on his shelf with all the flashing lights and LED numbers, we did an audio and video comparison with a cheap $30 surge protector (no backup power supply) and guess what? Identical sound and video. He kept the Monster unit though, since he's filthy rich and likes cool-looking gadgets. But he had to admit that I was dead right.Also, the instruction booklet that comes with this unit is entirely useless. It's basically an advertising brochure telling you how great Monster is as a company, as a way of getting you to buy more Monster products. It doesn't bother to even tell you simple things like should you keep this unit turned on all the time, or turn it on only when you're using your HT system. It also doesn't explain the different groups of power outlets on the back, i.e. why there are even different groupings at all and what each grouping actually does differently.Monster seems to work on the same marketing principle as Bose: produce sleek-looking products of dubious quality that are ridiculously overpriced and overhyped, counting on the average Joe to naively believe that he's getting what he's paying up the nose for, and invest tons of money on saturation advertising in order to establish name-brand recognition.In general, don't get snookered by the whole Monster scam. Same with their fancy cables which big-box electronics stores love to push---generic cables from Walmart and Home Depot will do the job just as well for a fraction of the cost. Spend the savings on better electronics (again, other than the TVs, you can find much better components buying online and especially from Internet-direct manufacturers) and actual DVDs and CDs.Great places to do your research and get advice would be online discussion groups like AVS Forum, Ecoustics, and hometheaterforum dot com. Oh, and the other rule of thumb: never, ever buy Bose. Do your homework and you'll find out why very quickly and clearly.UPDATE 11/24/2012: I see that Amazon has dropped the price of this item from the $300 it was going for at the time this review was originally written some 5 years ago, to $115 as of this writing. Now THAT'S more like it!!!
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Fugarino
First I actually own this item and bought it on Amazon.Someone wrote a review here saying that Monster had made a "snake oil" claim that power conditioning can give you better audio and video quality and that there was zero scientific basis for these claims. As a person who spent 20+ years in the video production business I can say with complete confidence this person is absolutely provably WRONG.While Monster does tend to make "snake oil" claims about some of its products the claim power conditioning can give you better audio and video quality is 100% true. You do not have to live in a 100 year old house, a new house can have wiring faults which for numerous reasons can interfere with audio and video, sometimes you create them when setting up your equipment. Power problems are notorious for causing HDMI faults, audio receiver buzzing, analog picture problems, interference of all kinds that degrade audio and video. For instance my house a 17 year old addition with then new wiring to a new panel and I have always had a buzz in my audio without a power conditioner.For years I used a Tripplite power conditioning (which 17 years ago cost more than this Monster unit) and since that failed I have been using a APC battery backup system with power conditioning which now requires a new battery so in the meanwhile I purchased Monster MP HTS 1600 which does what it is supposed to do and does it well, no buzz. Along with that the unit is well made, attractive, and displays enough info to let you see if there is a serious power problem.Monster has it faults and does tend oversell and over promise benefits for some of it products but not with this unit the Monster MP HTS 1600 does the job and at a reasonable price.If anyone tells that power conditioning cannot improve you audio and video and is "snake oil" do not trust anything they say on electronics because they do not know what they are talking about.
17 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
By T. Smolen
Have had a Monster Power Center now for over 2 years. Before, using a standard power strip, our receiver (onkyo) and TV (sharp) would lose sync over HDMI when our little beverage refrigerator would cycle on. Now with this unit all that is gone. I can't vouch for cleaner video or sharper audio but I can say without a doubt it does perform some benefit concerning cleaning up AC spikes or dropouts.
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