Monster Cable Products, Inc. is a privately held company that produces high-performance headphones, connectivity solutions, and A/V accessories for stereo speaker systems, home theater systems, and guitar amplifiers. Noel Lee, founder of Monster Cable Products and self-proclaimed "Head Monster" started the company in 1979 in a San Francisco garage. Monster later moved to South San Francisco before settling in its 700,000-square-foot Brisbane, California headquarters in 1998. Bringing together Lee's background as an electronics engineer and love for music, Monster markets its main products to customers looking for specialized, high-performance equipment.