Always keep this cable absolutely straight! Otherwise the bits on the outer edge will arrive late resulting in misaligned byte packets. This could, for example, wipe months or even years off the timbre of a Stradivarius by introducing brittleness in the upper harmonics.
It's even worse with cheese.
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First off, these are not meant for your everyday casual user. Usually you would have to buy a ZeLanom QRS-40's to get the quality us hardcore audiophiles enjoy. Unfortunately those run about 1200 dollars and have a waiting list to import from Sweden. So i gave these a shot and wow am I amazed. The quality matched and even exceeds my QRS-40's. However the life-span of the Denon's leaves much to be desired. I could only run the highest quality audio through them for about 2 hours before the LED's running through the cable lit up and gave me the error message "cool-down phase" They usually take about 4-5 hours to cooldown too. maybe in revision 2 Denon will fix this.
In the meantime, for all you serious audiophiles out there, i recommend this very highly, but due to the poor lifespan, i would definitely recommend picking up three or four sets of cables for extended use.
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There is a lot of disinformation being spread in these reviews. This is not a plain ethernet cable or a digital audio cable (as some have suggested).
This is a Denon Dedicated Link cable! Inserting another unsupported third-party cable between your Denon products can result in jitter and other nasty artifacts in the inter-Denon network signal which could damage your products.
Also, inserting a cable with impure copper into the denon-link port is always a bad idea. It can result in virus transmission. You've been warned. Insert only well-protected cables into your ports.
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I had my doubts when I decided to lay out the big bucks for a "cable." Little did I know, or frankly truly appreciate, the goodness that it would bring to not only my entertainment mecca, but my life in general. Ever since I brought this "little bit o' cable sunshine" into my house, my life has just taken off. Everything sounds and just feels better because of what I'm referring to as the "cable goodness spillover" effect. You name it, it sounds better. Garage door opener, dishwasher, washing machine. It doesn't matter. I've also noticed that women are really looking at me a lot. I mean a lot. You can just see the lust in their eyes!! It makes me feel so good, yet so dirty. Thank you Denon for changing my life for the better. Anxiously awaiting the arrival of the $1000 and higher cables to get to the next level of existence.
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What impressive marketing! Proof that you can put lipstick on a Bulldog and make people notice. Someone at Denon has some big stones or is desperate to hit their second quarter numbers and make their newly adjusted mortgage payments on their Pine Brook estate.
I don't know jack about the product, but that isn't the point. They are selling status and ego gratification, not something that is of any real, intrinsic value. Good job Denon, you know your customer base well.
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You pretend tech-jokers, laugh all you want - this cable is the real deal. When I first received mine, I rushed to hook it up to my system. and was crestfallen; the edge of the music sounded as if it had been routed through an echo chamber. It only lasted for a fraction of a millisecond, but *I* could hear it. I immediately got on the phone to Denon, and as you can imagine, their support was superb. After asking me a few questions about my rig, the support person said "this is a question I am hating to be asking you, but did you follow the directional arrows when you plugged it in?" Well, I felt like he could see the face go beet red.
I regained my composure, and explained how embarassed I was, especially as a binary engineer. How could I have expected to get clean ones and zeroes through a backwards wire? The best way I can try to explain this to a neophyte is this: imagine grating cheese with the grater upside-down. Now, you might argue that if you push hard enough, cheese will still go through, and I will concede this point. But is the cheese the same? No, of course not. Instead of smooth strands worthy of a gourmet taco, you end up with a mushy facsimile better left to melting on a bowl of chili (no offense, chili fans).
And as it is with cheese, so it is with music; the real cheese versus a mushy facsimile. After I got off the phone, just for amusement, I scoped the signal with the wire - both ways. And wouldn't you know it - phased correctly, I got a pristine signal; the ones and zeroes we are all looking for. But when flipped the wire, only 1% of the signal could be said to be within .005 volt of target. In essence, instead of something like 1011 0011 1001 0111 we would have .9 .1 .9 .9 ... Well, you get the idea.
I rushed to put music back on. I immediately went for the powerful remastering of Iggy Pop's Raw Power, often chosen by audiophiles to demonstrate nuance of the highest order. Of course, not satisfied with the decidedly low-resolution CD-ROM offering, I used the direct-to-disk vinyl recording. And before any of you geeks start yelling 'Nyquist-Shannon', slide down a sliding board, then down a flight of stairs and then try explaining to your sore butt some mumbo-jumbo about information theory.
At this point, words fail, but I will try: transcendence, ecstacy, bliss... sublime, magnifique, awesome, dude. To go farther would be to offend common decency. Buy this cable. If you were going to spend $500 for a hand-polished diamond needle - buy this cable. If you were going to have the Ethiopian sheep leather in your Ultrasones relined, buy this cable. You get the idea...
Buy this cable.
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After seeing the disgraceful overpricing of this generously $10 cable, I looked at Denon's own website.
I'm not sure whether they're living up to their motto:
"Simply put, anything that does not provide more passion, improve performance or enhance the user experience does not belong in a Denon."
If they don't take these off the market, I will never look at a Denon anything again. Period. As consumers, we should make it a point to not be swindled and have our intelligence insulted. That said, some idiots probably just needed to be shown the dotted line. They deserve their fate.
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Many people have posted here who appear not to understand the science behind Denon's cabling and its superior hyperphasal multibit inductive ultraconductance technologies. They assume that there is no way to improve upon the transmissive properties of copper cabling (mainly because they don't understand the properties of alloying megacopper), or to create a better-than-normal digital signal (BTND coding). I would give this cable eleventy million stars if I could, and once you understand, so will you.
In order to clear things up for the scitards, let me quote to you from the original Denon research literature by Quick & Salwen:
"Work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a new cable technology that will not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but will also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Despite the claims of some critics, such a cable is possible. We call it the Turbo-encable-ator.
The cabling system has a base-plate connector of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings are in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The main cable winding is of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremble pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.
Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes are arranged to feed into the pulse phasing slipstream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have specific pericosities given by P = 2.5C.n^6-7 where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer, but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope. It is clear from this that intrapolarphasal preteslence is now empraxified, correlating with an increase in conductive hyperplatitization.
Electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubbing together a regurgitative purwell and a supramitive wennelsprock. Indeed, this proved to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1992, it was found that the use of anhydrous nangling pins enabled a kryptonastic boiling shim to the tankered. Spooling of the reframublant diaphanator became possible, allowing for cromulence.
Our early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed, potentially dooming the project, largely because of a lack of appreciation of the large quasi-piestic stresses in the gremlin strands; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffit windings to the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by a simple addition to the living sockets, almost perfect running was secured. With this problem overcome, we were able to initiate googolpolar preferatory unbinding.
The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the h.f. rem peak by constantly fromaging the bitumogenous spandrels. This is a distinct advance on the standard nivel-sheave in that no dramcock gel is required after the phase detractors have been remissed. Such advances allow for non-holoxified, doubly-flexocorrigent operation.
Undoubtedly, the Turbo-encable-ator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for generating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor signal is required, the cable connector may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration."
Now that you know the science behind these amazing cables, you can see just what an amazing advance they truly are. With all that R&D behind them, they'd be cheap at twice the price. I haven't listened to any music across them yet, but all relevant synthetic cableometrics show that the AKDL1 are operates at a very advanced level and should be more than suitable for hyperlistening.
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