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So there's a $500 cat-5 cable for sale on amazon.com. According to the product description, "Made of high-purity copper wire, it's designed to thoroughly eliminate adverse effects from vibration and helps stabilize the digital transmission from occurrences of jitter and ripple. A tin-bearing copper alloy is used for the cable's shield while the insulation ismade of a fluoropolymer material with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties. The connector features a rounded plug lever to prevent bending or breaking and direction marks to indicate correct direction for connecting cable." Umm... seriously, I'd make some sort of comment about extreme gullibility, but I wouldn't be the first.
"A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews."
"I think Monster will probably sue because they came up with theoriginal idea of ripping off the public and now Denon is stealing their concept."
"I only gave it four stars in my review because I can't find music that is worthy enough to flow through this utterly perfect interconnect."
"...Listening to "Hootie and the Blowfish" through our cable actually does make the band sound better now. And do you know why? Because even that is better than saying you wasted $500.00 on a cable."
"I'm an engineer, so trust me on this one. Sound is a wave, moving in one direction. A uni-directional cable such as this is needed for optimum listening pleasure. Some other poster, incorrectly I might humbly add, said using it backwards causes the music to play backwards. Installing it in reverse causes the 1's and 0's to start to clog theline since they have no where to go. As a result, you'll get no sound at all. If you do that, be careful when you turn the cable around as all the 1's and 0's will come out at once, potentially overloading your ethernet connection and exceeding your ISP's bandwidth caps."
"While the production quality of this cable, along with the little arrows that help me (and the music) understand where the sound is going, is mind-boggling - What I found most impressive is that this cable actually turned my binary digital audio devices into TRINARY digital audio devices. All the people saying that it's just 1's and 0's don't understand how revolutionary this cable is. IT UPSCALES YOUR DIGITALSPECTRUM TO ALLOW FOR 2's!!! Any true audiophile knows that 2's are where the upper-order harmonicas are to be found in high quality digital audio."
"Thanks Denon, I guess I was a failure as an engineer to believe that normal copper wire I can pay .55$ a foot for was somehow better."
"...the only practical way to improve the alloy purity would be to eliminate the wiring altogether, and go wireless. Which would incidentally be cheaper, too. Much cheaper."
"...To make a long story short, it appears that IF YOU HOOK UP THESE CABLESBACKWARDS, THEY WILL SEND AND RECEIVE ETHERNET PACKETS INTO THE PAST"
"They are selling status and ego gratification, not something that is of any real, intrinsic value. Good job Denon, you know your customer basewell."
"Since carefully installing the Denon cables using the provided surgical gloves, my system has stablized in Hilbert space. Apparently the Denon AKDL1 performs polarized nanoscale quantum tunneling by usinga custom transparent aluminum cable matrix to push parameterized vorgon particles through a dark fibre phase variant Heisenberg compensator. How they accomplish this for only $500, I don't know."
"Previously, the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable could only be obtained either by prescription or via the black market. But now, suddenly everything remains exactly the same."
"A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews."
"I think Monster will probably sue because they came up with theoriginal idea of ripping off the public and now Denon is stealing their concept."
"I only gave it four stars in my review because I can't find music that is worthy enough to flow through this utterly perfect interconnect."
"...Listening to "Hootie and the Blowfish" through our cable actually does make the band sound better now. And do you know why? Because even that is better than saying you wasted $500.00 on a cable."
"I'm an engineer, so trust me on this one. Sound is a wave, moving in one direction. A uni-directional cable such as this is needed for optimum listening pleasure. Some other poster, incorrectly I might humbly add, said using it backwards causes the music to play backwards. Installing it in reverse causes the 1's and 0's to start to clog theline since they have no where to go. As a result, you'll get no sound at all. If you do that, be careful when you turn the cable around as all the 1's and 0's will come out at once, potentially overloading your ethernet connection and exceeding your ISP's bandwidth caps."
"While the production quality of this cable, along with the little arrows that help me (and the music) understand where the sound is going, is mind-boggling - What I found most impressive is that this cable actually turned my binary digital audio devices into TRINARY digital audio devices. All the people saying that it's just 1's and 0's don't understand how revolutionary this cable is. IT UPSCALES YOUR DIGITALSPECTRUM TO ALLOW FOR 2's!!! Any true audiophile knows that 2's are where the upper-order harmonicas are to be found in high quality digital audio."
"Thanks Denon, I guess I was a failure as an engineer to believe that normal copper wire I can pay .55$ a foot for was somehow better."
"...the only practical way to improve the alloy purity would be to eliminate the wiring altogether, and go wireless. Which would incidentally be cheaper, too. Much cheaper."
"...To make a long story short, it appears that IF YOU HOOK UP THESE CABLESBACKWARDS, THEY WILL SEND AND RECEIVE ETHERNET PACKETS INTO THE PAST"
"They are selling status and ego gratification, not something that is of any real, intrinsic value. Good job Denon, you know your customer basewell."
"Since carefully installing the Denon cables using the provided surgical gloves, my system has stablized in Hilbert space. Apparently the Denon AKDL1 performs polarized nanoscale quantum tunneling by usinga custom transparent aluminum cable matrix to push parameterized vorgon particles through a dark fibre phase variant Heisenberg compensator. How they accomplish this for only $500, I don't know."
"Previously, the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable could only be obtained either by prescription or via the black market. But now, suddenly everything remains exactly the same."