Thank you Denon. I suffer from a rare R/F allergy which makes it nearly impossible for me to leave my lead lined sarcophagus (unless there is a power outage). Generally i can only listen to music on an accoustic gramaphone and hence my library consists entirely of John Phillips Suza. That all changed when i got the Denon AKDL1 dream maker. No random photons here! I've integrated the cable into a bucket i've lined with tinfoil and now my library has already expanded to include Count Basie and Sir-Mix-Alot. Life is once again worth living.
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I installed one of these cables between my gigabit ethernet switch and my Canon Pixma 6700 color printer. I know it's not a sanctioned use, but I was looking for the ultimate in speed and color fidelity. I'm freaky that way.
The first time I downloaded a picture to the printer over this cable, the bits moved so fast the printer collapsed into a naked singularity, right there in my office.
Since then, I can't find the cat, and my entire set of VAX/VMS 4.7 documentation (DEC Will Rise Again!) (Mmmmm, orangey!) has gone missing.
Please, for the love of God, please, do not use these cables! The very existence of Earth may depend on your decision!
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All these sarcastic and negative reviews are utterly unfair to Denon. It's obvious that most if not all of these comments are being made by people who have never tried the cable, and who couldn't tell the difference between 8-track and vinyl if their life depended on it anyway. A true connoisseur never skimps on his equipment, and those few of us who truly appreciate end-to-end quality should thank Denon for providing the AKDL1, which is hands down the best high-end digital audio cable available. For those who know what makes great sound, these versatile cables are an invaluable investment which will provide more than a lifetime of flawless service.
To give you an idea of the quality of these cables, I would like to point out that it's theoretically impossible to improve on the efficiency of connection this cable provides without removing every last atom of imperfection in the copper alloy used for the wiring. In fact, 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.
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In today's topsy-turvy world, I imagine there are worthier things to spend $499 on than a cable. Stop, take a deep breath, and think about it for a moment...
Craig Duckett
Seattle, WA
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This $500 cable is listed at only 1.5 m, and you may think that is too short for your application. That could easily be the case with other nominally 59" cables, which is why you should consider nothing but the Denon AKDL1. It will work beautifully no matter what spatial constraints you encounter. I'm not suggesting that the cable magically expands to fill the gap, although I wouldn't doubt that it could. No, once you have this marvelous investment in your hands, you will gladly rearrange your environment to accommodate it. It's worth it!
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One of the unmentioned qualities of these cables is the reduced latency of the signal. Normal copper cables pass signals at about half the speed of light, but these puppies pass the signal at up to 3/4ths of lightspeed! This means that your data arrives faster, and since the Ethernet protocol involves collision detection, backoff, and retransmission this added speed means YOUR data is more likely to go ahead of competing data! Further, if there is no issue with other data sources, your data arrives 100s of picoseconds faster than with other cables. This can be important for gamers in multi-player situations! Or even for folks who just hate to wait for their data to arrive.
Marked down 1 star because it still won't let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
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So after paying $500 for this thing and using it give me the ultimate audio experience when I listen to my music, it appears that there's some sort of weird side effects after pro-longed exposure.
It seems that now whenever I go to the bathroom and have to take a massive dump, the music I was playing before taking said dump emanates from my butthole. I found this odd (seeing as how my only contact with the cable was when I took it out of the packages and hooked it up to my computer), yet strangely amusing at the same time.
I'd give this product a five-star review because of the unique power I now have, but to be honest, it kind of creeped me out at first.
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I've always felt that an honest business that doesn't manipulate customers, and prides itself on providing a significant and competitive value to the consumer is worth returning to and relying upon. That's why when I needed to attach my little Samantha's heart monitor to our modem so the doctors could keep a closer eye on her during these final months, Denon was the first place I looked! This is a very high quality Ethernet cable! Every bit reaches its destination intact. When it came down to either getting the best in Ethernet technology, or providing Samantha's mother a plane ticket to come see her before she passed (she works in the textile factories in the summer sending the money home while I care for Samantha fulltime) and going with some OTHER cheapo cable which could seriously jeopardize my little Samantha's health with countless occurrences of jitter and ripple - the choice was clear. Sometimes it costs a little more to have the best, but you have to choose your priorities. What is more likely to take my Samantha away from me? Only eating rice and grain and selling our TV/VCR and most of our furniture, or having a cardiac arrest slip by the doctors because of an adverse effect of vibration? Yes it stretched our budget but I highly recommend this life saving cable even to the cancer child family on a tight budget. When Samantha dies in this cold lifeless house, hungry and missing her mother, she'll still think of Denon and how their fluoropolymer insulated wonder added untold minutes to her precious little life. Bless you Denon!
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