There are holes in my ears where the hearing-stuff used to be, but it doesn't matter. Thanks to Denon, my aural drive has been completely satiated and I can live out the rest of my years in silent remembrance of the true dedication of these (I have twelve) link cables.
I would marry this cable if it were legal in my state (thanks Bush). As it is, I must settle for rolling around in them - naked - while I imagine a choir of angels and Denon CEOs (is there a difference?) piercing through the AKDL1 with their heavenly sounds.
I can't wait for the AKDL2!
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After reading the reviews for this cable, I was compelled to correct some of the blatant errors and misconceptions that many people seem to have about it. (I do want to point out that I am an electrical engineer with many years of design experience, so I know what I'm talking about.)
In a nutshell, digital bits should consist solely of "1"s and "0"s. Unfortunately, low quality cables will distort the digital data, causing some "1"s to become values such as "0.93"s or "1.12"s or even "2.08"s, for example. Likewise, some "0"s will be changed to values like "0.2"s or "0.13"s. The problem is that circuits such as digital-to-analog converters and tri-state digital buffers can't process these distorted bits, and they remain stuck in the cable. Eventually the cable becomes so clogged that data transmission slows to a crawl as bandwidth is gradually reduced. When this happens, the defective bits can only be removed by stroking the cable with a neodymium magnet while orienting the cable to magnetic north. Few people bother to go to such effort, instead preferring to periodically replace the clogged cable with a fresh one. (Unfortunately, few bother to observe proper hazardous waste protocols while disposing of the distorted bits.)
Unfortunately, despite its high price, the Denon AKDL1 fails to solve this problem. I connected a logic analyzer to the cable and observed that the distortion was reduced, but not eliminated. While some may think that a "1.000000001" is better than a "1.12", neither value can be processed by a digital circuit. Consequently, the AKDL1 clogs just as quickly as a $10 cable. (However, the distorted bits are not nearly as toxic as those from a cheap cable.)
It's really a shame, because if the Denon engineers had simply bothered to use the skin of newborn puppies and kittens as the insulator material, the cable would have worked perfectly. So close, yet so far.
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I agree with the silver cable reviewer, however, I'm holding out for the Denon diamond link cable, grown synthetically in a vacuum chamber, squeezed and heated like the center of the sun. Denon will grow that special polarized diamond stranded link cable, braided like a 9 year old girls ponytail, and cover it with pure mink woven fur, allowing even clearer ones and zeros to be transmitted.
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While i have no doubt that Denon makes an outstanding cable, they are mass manufactured! I can hand craft a cable of just as good quality to the length of your choice, and I'll undercut Denon by 50%! It's a deal you can't walk away from!
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Do you like Huey Lewis and the news? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
In '87, Huey released 'Fore!', their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
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I am so glad I got this when it was available new. I wouldn't pay 10 cents for this recycled cable that has been God knows where. Someone using it prior could have been playing Rap thru it, surely tainting it. Who know how bad the SQ in your system will suffer from their "refirb" process? My $1500 Denon cable is virgin, pure as the driven snow.
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Why would you pay this much for an ethranet cable? CAT/6 is the exact same no matter who you buy it from, you can get a cable from radio shack for $10 that would do the exact same thing.....it is all digatal, meaning the signal can't be any better than it was to begin with...it doesn't degrade over length like analogue.
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I knew my day was going to improve when the truck pulled up at my home with this cable deep within. No ordinary truck, this one was Holy White, and the gold Delivery logo sparkled like a thousand suns reflected through shards of the purest ice formed with unadulterated water collected at the beginning of the universe. The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me - all the while, the choir sang praises to the almighty digital god. With trepidation, I pushed "play," and was instantly enveloped in a sound that echoed the creation of all matter, a sound that vibrated every cell in my body to perfection. I was instantly taken to the next plane, where I saw the all-father. I knew with my entire soul, that all was good in the world.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
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