Why is Monster M1000i interconnect overlooked?

Forgive me - I see now I did use the word "stubbornly".

But this pertained to my resistance to spending big bucks, not to hanging on to my old cables.

carlosacns535 let me know how I can outperformn anything in my system without breaking the bank and I am listening.

I have stubbornly resisted spending big bucks on cables, so I have been using an original pair of Monster M-1 and M-1000s through many systems and upgrades.

I bought them in 1986 (?!?!), in order to use with my new Magnepan MG IIIa's, Audio Research SP-9 and Linn LP 12. At that time -- with that equipment which is still respected -- they were supposed to be great, and were allegedly designed by Bruce Brisson of MIT fame.

Nearly 20 years later, I recently subsituted a much more expensive set of Madrigal interconnects, which were supplied with my Mark Levinson 23.5. By comparison, the pricey Madrigal cables sounded TERRIBLE - cloudy, dark, and closed in by comparison.

So I don't know why they are overlooked -- a perfectly good cable in my experience.

I didn't think I was being stubborn.

In fact, I took them out of service to experiment with some modestly priced Signal Cables following recommendations from some of you.

But now that my Monsters will approach 25 years of burn in, maybe I should put them back in the system?