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Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power

Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power

(62 customer reviews)

List Price:	$299.95
Our Price:	$129.99
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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

Features:

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Monster Clean Power; Stage 2 v.2.1 circuitry filter dramatically reduces electronic noise.

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T2: automatic disconnect/reconnect protection circuitry. $350,000 Connected Equipment Warranty.

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Tri-Mode: power protection circuitry with audible alarm and auto disconnect.

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3618 Joule rating provides a high level of surge absorption.

Product Details:

Product Length:	21.3 inches
Product Width:	11.6 inches
Product Height:	5.3 inches
Product Weight:	11.0 pounds
Package Length:	21.0 inches
Package Width:	11.7 inches
Package Height:	5.1 inches
Package Weight:	11.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 62 reviews

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Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 4.5

( 62 customer reviews )
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399 of 498 found the following review helpful:

Pure SNAKE OIL (as are most Monster products)Dec 30, 2007
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.

9 of 11 found the following review helpful:

Does what it claimsMay 24, 2011
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.

47 of 68 found the following review helpful:

for the gadget geek freak and professionalAug 28, 2010
By Marvin Taylor
Here's who needs this overpriced item:

You are planning to use this in a professional studio to record and play.

You are a gadget freak.

You have too much money.

You really live in a crappy or old house or neighborhood with poor electrical wiring and alot of interference.

otherwise, for the other 98% of you, you don't need this.

42 of 63 found the following review helpful:

for those who doubtNov 18, 2008
By G. Lee
here is an easy way to test to see if the filter actually works.

take a noise detector, plug it in to your 19.99 walmart surge protector

then do the same on the monster power unit. it will throw you back.

people are talking bout how they dont see a picture or sound quality difference.

i'll give you another way to test this too.

take a CD and put it in your DVD or CD player, turn up the sound and wait for the tracks to change. during the switch from one track to the next there will be silent moment that is actually not silent. static noises. buzzing noises. yeh.. if your equipment was plugged into a monster power center with the clean power, it will be silent. the way its supposed to be.

common sense is. fluctuations/noise in your power source is bad for your equipments, decreased life span of products and more chances of small surges going through your system without you even knowing about it.

if you decide to keep the 19.99 wal-mart powerstrip on your 5000 dollar system. you go right ahead. but for those smart people out there with common sense. get a proper powercenter with proper amount of joules for your equipments

4 of 6 found the following review helpful:

Great Product, Great PriceJan 05, 2012
By MRC
I paid a fraction of the price on this item from Amazon that I would have from Best Buy for a comparable (i.e., same specs as this one) Monster surge protector/power conditioner. I bought it mainly for peace of mind relative to avoiding power surges. I have lost expensive equipment in the past during thunderstorms due to power spikes and the cheap surge protectors did not cut power fast enough during surge and components fried.

Monster has the reputation of replacing products that have been fried by surges when using their product with out much hassle and that played heavily into my purchase of this product. Ive got about $5,000 into some of the better Rotel components located in a sun room and spending about $150 for an "insurance policy" under written by Monster seems fair to me. I also have a second, more robust Monster Surge Protector/Power conditioner protecting $40,000 worth of equipment in my home theatre room. Again, its basically nothing more than an insurance policy should you get hit with a power spike. A one time cost of $500 for the more robust Monster protector/conditioner to insure $40k worth of electronics is a no-brainer. The same is true about spending $150 to protect $5k worth of electronics....a no-brainer.

I have to be honest about the power conditioner side of the equation in terms of Monster's ability to "condition the power" thus taking audible noise out of the line. I heard no improvement in sound quality on either model and even went so far as to do a blind fold test with the conditioner on and with conditioner off. I cant hear the difference but that does not mean it's not doing anything. It is possible I have very minimal amounts of noise in my line. I honestly cannot tell the differece in terms of sound quality with monster in equation or out of equation. Definitely worth the money as a surge protector though.

I gave it 4 out of 5 stars because the line conditioning ability is an intangible as far as my experience but still highly encourage you to buy one if you have decent money invested in AV equipment.

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Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power

Monster MP HTS 1600 8-Outlet Power Center with Stage 2 Clean Power

050644418990-109807

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.