The Denon ADKL1 Dedicated Link Cable is my favorite worldly possession. Late at night, I lie awake in anticipation of the day I can afford to replace my receiver with one which can connect to this, the ultimate digital cable.
This particular digital cable somehow makes your ones more one with the universe and your zeros less so, so it acts like an expander for your mind and soul. I haven't connected it yet, but already I feel comforted and more alive than ever.
My receiver lacks the requisite female connector and that makes it seem so useless, like the kind of receiver a poor person or an imbecile would have. I've become self-conscious about owning it, and have hidden it and my shame away until such time as I become worthy of a proper receiver. I post this review as a sort of audiophile confessional to assuage my deep and abiding hatred for myself. Soon, I will return to the beautiful Denon shipping container to handle this magnificent cable, but I must wait for the sun to kiss the horizon and provide suitable lighting for such an activity.
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You detractors are all fools. If you read the description carefully you will see this cable is designed for ANALOG audio signals, not digital. Clearly, any claims of superior performance in the digital realm would be foolish. But analog is a whole different ball game. Analog, unlike Digital, is susceptible to external noise sources such as Televisions, Radio stations, GPS signals, Cellular signals, etc etc. Without digitals error correction capabilities Analog is permanently distorted in the presence of such external noise sources. Denon uses CAT5 cables to transfer analog signals between certain of their high end stereo equipment. So to verify the effectiveness requires critical listening in a controlled acoustically "dead" room. This is what I have done. And after exhaustive listening I have concluded I do hear a difference. The Denon cables create a more realistic soundstage and a presence not experienced with the cheaper alternative. To see if this was just my imagination my assistant led me out of the room and would arbitrarily select on of the two cables to see if I could identify which was being used. I was confident and this proved out in my ability to guess the correct cable a whopping 52% of the time. Clearly, $500 for a 2% certainty improvement over purely random chance is a real bargain. I rank this as a great investment - right up there with my recent purchase of the "Tornado Fuel Saver", My White Van speakers, my Millli Vinnili CD, My Pontiac Aztek, my $3000 plastic Feng Shiu fountain, and my collection of Howard the Duck memorabilia.
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This marvelous piece of wire not only clarifies the most compressed mp3's while unlogging your intertubes! No more silly elliptic curves, Taniyama-Shimura conjectures or Galois representations. Yes, it's true - it proves Fermat's Last for ALL prime numbers greater than 2, some irrational numbers and pi. Just set it and forget it!
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When I first came across this product on Amazon I wasn't sure if it would do the job, but I trust the Denon name so I took a chance, and it totally paid off!
First off, let me make it clear: I'm not really that into music. I know a lot of people like the way it sounds in their ears, and that's fine for them. They can dance around like idiots and sing to themselves all they want (it's still a free country last time I checked), but it just doesn't do anything for me. My neighbor, though, he's a real audiophile. In fact, he listens to records all day, and many times all night. He also likes his music loud. So loud, in fact, that the bass makes the pictures on my walls rattle!
So, anyway, I got this item for him. As a matter of fact, I bought two! You see, these cables are really quite strong. Their braided coaxial construction gives them great tensile strength with the benefit of a small diameter. That, combined with the tough-as-nails DuraFlex outer sheathing, makes it very easy to tie into knots. And at 59" long, they are perfect for tying a Dead-wrist Bowline, a Spanish Throathitch, or even a Hong Kong Balls-lock! So anyway, these made restraining my neighbor a snap. The rough texture of the sheathing resulted in some wrist-abrasions, but was pretty easy to clean the blood from, so it wasn't too big a deal.
Also, Amazon's return policy made it super-easy to get my thousand dollars back when I was done (thanks Amazon!!!!). Now I just need to get a new liner for my trunk!
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OK, for all of you complaining about the high price of this cable: you just don't get it. Sure, I could buy some five-buck cable from the computer hack store up the street or even solder a couple of wires together in my basement. That's like saying that I could baste a couple yards of fabric from Jo-Ann's together with my Singer and it would be just as good as a Prada dress. Sure, my kluged efforts would perform the function of covering my body, just like any ol' cable can transfer your data from point A to point B. But the craftsmanship, the aesthetics, the presentation of this Denon Dedicated Link Cable...the whole package makes it a work of art that only the few can fully appreciate, just like that designer original gown. With its cerulean colours and its sleek, Italian-inspired lines, I have no doubt the Denon AKDL1 will be celebrated decades down the line by the Museum of Modern Art as a masterwork of modern design.
Plus, I heard that Jessica Simpson wore a Denon AKDL1 out to an opening night recently, just wrapped around her neck and loosely tied, and got all kinds of compliments and her picture in People Magazine. I know it's just a matter of time before every little small-town girl working at the 7-11 is swiping the cables off her geek brother's compy, spray painting 'em blue, and wearing 'em out to the mall, and then the knockoffs will start, Chinese imitations showing up at your local Claire's boutique, ugh...so buy this one now and get in on the ground floor while this fashion trend is still THE hottness. Plus, when the fashion wears off, it'll still do a helluva job of transferring those ones and zeroes to boot.
In short, it's worth every penny and then some. I've even read some reviews suggesting that wearing this cable on your bosom daily will increase a woman's breasts by two cup sizes over time...although no one might notice if they're too busy envying your cool blue Denon AKDL1!
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in their Feedback section, a place where dubious claims are highlighted. (Vol 199:2666, p.56) For those of you who actually paid $500 for this, I feel sorry for you because you just got duped. This is a digital signal. End of story. The claims about this are snake oil. If you believe this nonsense I've got this bridge I want to sell you in new York for a great price.
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Ignoring the sound quality for a moment, one has to admire the technology and innovation that goes into the directional markings and rounded plug levers. If anyone can find these features on another CAT-5 cable at any price, I will send you a tin foil cap to keep the government from controlling your thoughts.
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I bought this cable but it refused to plug into my Samsung and Pioneer equipment. When I forced it to connect with them anyway, it killed itself in shame. So I ordered a replacement, but instead of plugging it into inferior devices I plugged it into my Apple Powerbook. There was a brief shudder in the room and a wormhole formed where my bedroom wall had been. Unfortunately, the nascent event horizon killed my cat, leaving her head here and her body on Abidos. Then Amanda Tapping stepped through the wormhole and zatted me as punishment for driving the first cable to an untimely death. She told me that she had created these cables in collaboration with the replicators. It has a naquda core and a neutronium nanite shield. It was originally intended for use in Merlin's anti-Ori weapon, but the series was coming to an end, Tapping had blown all of her income on hair extensions, and Denon made her a very generous offer for her patent on the technology. Unfortunately, Denon's accounting department realized that they had to price the cable at a point that would allow them to recoup this investment on the sale of only a few hundred cables worldwide, hence the steep price.
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The Amazing AKDL1 is more then just a GOD-like sound conductor that will change your religion. It can do much more then just provide you with baby soft genitals. I was able to purchase 14 of these cables for the ridiculously low price of a standard parsec of ocean front property. Then I sealed them in a linear null entropy field which extends directly up through my pebble and asphalt flat roof into the 12.5 foot rooftop antenna which has been decadently garnished with numerous double-ringed rabbit ears and augmented by consummate-V double-length telescoping Yagi antenna with full duplexing half wave dipoles. Once this feat easily accomplished due to the quality of the purest copper in the AKDL1, I was able to direct it to my Analog TV and receive 754 channels all with full 800X600 DPI digital quality. Just think of all the money I will be saving by not having to buy a converter box for the February 2009 DTV transition deadline. Whew!! Thank you Denon!
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An important point is being missed here. It's not just getting better ones and zeros. That doesn't matter in the digital realm. This isn't like analogue. Your computer could care less for a more integer like one or a more perfectly empty zero. This cable goes beyond that. It actually enables quantum digital data transmission. It's a dedicated ether link cable. Not an ethernet link cable like a lot of know-nothings seem to be touting. This baby hooks you straight into the ether. It's powered by internal subatomic weak nuclear forces (note they use weak nuclear forces to reduce the risk of radiation poisoning), and along the length of the cable, the weak nuclear forces collapse by means of quantum resonance with the ether to yield the data you wanted (and unfortunately the data you don't want as well, it's a quantum thing). It has two ends, which is where the confusion comes in. You plug one end in if you want to receive data from the ether. The other end is plugged in to use the weak nuclear forces to recharge your battery on the go if you run into an emergency. Some confusion also comes in about uploading. You don't upload into the ether. Since it exists outside of the general time space continuum, it's not subject to the laws of cause and effect. It needs no additions or updates.
Important note: I had a friend who thought he'd be smart and power his electric car with the power supplying side of this cable. It's not meant for high amp pulls or continuous duty cycles. He ended up over heating the cable and causing a space time anomaly. It would have ended the universe had it not been for a freakish physics loophole. Apparently the cable becomes 50% closer each nano-nano-second to imploding our galaxy and all four of it's dimensions, but since it works off of a percentage and not off of a definite value countdown, it will never actually reach the crucial point but merely come closer and closer. Quantum physics are so quarky some times.
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