Customer Reviews

Two Gigahertz Low-Loss RF Splitters for TV & Satellite MKII - 4 Way 2 GigaHertz RF Splitter

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Works just as advertised! It is low-loss, build quality is very sturdy and connections designed well to fit your cable fittings.

Article said it was for satelite connections. Direct tv is satelite but it would not work. Article should have said that it was not for Direct TV

The splitter works great! I use it to split over-the-air coax to 3 different rooms/HDTV's in my house. I did not notice any signal loss at all.

I'm using this splitter at the end of about 75' coaxial cable run from the rooftop antenna. The splitted signal goes into the attic and it get splitted again with Acoustic Reasearch 4-way 2.5Ghz splitter before another 93' of coaxial cable to my next door neighbor's house cheap 3-way splitter. From there it goes throughout his house with addition of another 20' of coaxial cable before it reaches the converter box. He is able to receive 100% on most HDTV channels and a few fluctuate between 90% and 95%. I use all quad-shield cable throughout my house but I think he has regular dual shield RG59. You can read my other review on Channel Master 7777 to see my setup. This is a circuit board type splitter and they are designed for low loss if you have a long cable run like I do.

I have been a long time fan of Monster products. I feel this one has let me down. At first, I thought everything was perfect, but then realized that I did not have a couple of the channels I normally receive (Digital Cable, and may have been missing more that I don't normally watch). I tried troubleshooting my devices, but it turned out that it was this splitter. After trying different configurations, I went back to my old splitter and the channels were working again.
I was upgrading from a 2 way splitter to this 4 way splitter in order to add another device. I did try to only splitting to my original 2 device configuration and tried with and without the included caps, no change.

I am a long time fan of Monster. I used to be in the business of selling AV electronics, and having the time to sit there for days on end and do side-by-side comparisons with cheap cables (keep in mind that HDMI wasn't even a word in my time. Component video was the dawn of a new age taking over from S-Video) there was actually noticeable differences and major improvements quality-wise in both picture and sound. I stopped buying Monster product after I got out of the business because I couldn't afford the "retail" prices. It's funny to walk in to a store and listen to the salesperson say the word "investment" when talking about higher end cables. "Investment" is appropriate because you're going to have to take out a second mortgage just to pay for all the hook-ups this guy wants you to buy for the equipment he just sold you. Anyone been able to look at them with a straight face when they try to explain that a $300 cable will unleash the full potential of your $149 blu ray player?
So for this splitter device, I can tell you it's COMPLETELY worth your "investment" if you're going to be spltting for internet, multiple TV connections, phone, etc. Even for longer distances, as long you have some decent RG6 cable, the picture degradation is really minimal. Is it "reference" material? Of course not. But if you're worried about George Lucas shaking his head in disbelief that you would allow yourself to let your picture quality go below standard the next time he's over for a beer watching the game on you 40" you got on Boxing Day for that below-cost amazing price, you wouldn't/shouldn't be reading any of these reviews in the first place. If you're ever privy to the test that some showrooms offer about seeing what's inside the cables and "where the money goes", you can start to understand why some cable is worth more than others. And this item is one that can be found in one of those displays. It really is amazing that there is NOTHING in the $3 splitter (or $10-$20 splitter with fancy packaging for that matter) other than the threads of copper wire heading to each male connection. No wonder it looks like it's snowing when you're watching the summer Olympics. Unless you do side-by-side comparisons in your home (and why would you really, exactly?) the picture is going to be as good pre-split with this device. The issue is the profit percentage on some cable, like Monster, is so far out of whack that it's unfortunate that the mentality of "well it must be good, it's expensive as hell" comes in to play when it shouldn't. Hockey parents do it all the time with their kids, but that's for another review.
Anywho, if you can find good deals on Monster, Energy (and the like) cables, go for it. But don't walk in to a store and pick the next-to-impossible-to-open Monster packaging, then head straight for the cashier. You'll actually make a salesperson's entire day with that one purchase, believe it or not. This item can retail as high as $40-$50 dollars in the store, so you can imagine my surprise here on Amazon. (There's even a higher model with a built in signal booster, so that's why I only gave it a 4 stars in Build Quality. Because, yes, there's a better one out there, and maybe it doesn't even have a Monster logo on it, Oh No!)
P.S. - HDMI cable prices are a JOKE! This is not propaganda, but please do not be fooled. I am in no way saying HDMI is a joke, but the prices definitely are. Information being passed along an HDMI cable is nothing but digital gobbly-gook that we mere mortals do not understand. Digital is digital. Yes, there's a difference in quality in the digital spectrum (mp3's with different transfer rates and file sizes sound better and worse depending on the amount of info stored and the amount of space used for example) but that is from the source, completely out of our hands as consumers. That information cannot be magically made better or improved by buying a THX HDMI cable for upwards of $400. Yes, where I live, that price is unfortunately correct. If the information is crap going in, it's crap coming out. That's the beauty of digital information. It can't really be intimidated to be anything else other than what it already is. Analog signal is completely different, so when you're dealing with signal to loss ratio, blah blah blah. . . there's actually a point to Monster and other higher end cable. Analog can be "massaged" and improved.
Simply put, you are at point A and need to get directly to point B, and YOU are the digital information looking for a transport device. A Toyota Yaris or Honda Fit will get you straight to point B with no problem. You are completely "housed in your cable" and you're exactly the same when you reach point B. Would a Hummer or Bentley get you to point B as well? Damn right it would. But why would you need either of them just to get to point B really?
Enough said.

At the end of the day you put an antenna in and get 4 outs. I used this for about a two weeks from my OTA for HDTV. Previously I was not receiving CBS well, and this did not improve the matter. I ended up getting the Motorolla splitter with signal booster.