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by kw71 4111 days ago
While I'm leery of buying anything that requires a lot of "engineering" or "design" from them, I've been quite happy with the cables and simple accessories like memory card readers I've gotten from them. I've been studying cables and connectors for a long time, and have had loads of my own custom cables and connectors manufactured in China. While I haven't done an analysis on the connectors they use, I recognize that their cables are made from high quality cable stock - usually from Copartner, which I regard very highly and believe to be the top shelf of the cable stock that you can get from China. Their mains power cables are very nice too, and they stock enough variants that my spec is usually met from their stock (for instance, 14 or 16AWG, right angles, 10 feet) without having to special order.

I even have Monoprice supply some of the commodity accessory cables that I include in various bits of kit that I sell, such as plain serial cables. I thought it would reflect badly on me when they started molding their name into the cable ends, but so far it seems that nobody's been unhappy.