Why the five (5) star (*****) review? Because, my dear friends, I am writing this message to you from THE FUTURE - after stealing the boyfriend's mother's credit card, I bought three of these sweet babies, hired a day laborer named Paco to weld them together for me, and voila! Pedro... I mean Paco... and I are now dirty dancing in the year 2018! The only downside is that we can't find anyone willing to sell us the papers we need to get back to the year 2008...
So in the meantime, while I'm waiting for the call back from Denon tech support, I'm blogging from the future, and what a future it is, my dear friends of the past. Chelsea is President - again. Someone strapped Al Gore to a satellite and launched him into orbit a few years back, and on a clear night, with a nice pair of binoculars, you can see him waving frantically as his pasty butt hurtles through space and beyond...
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Our company is dedicated to providing a quality audio download to our customers. As a result, we have been using these cables to interconnect our bit torrent servers to our TCP/IP backbone router for about a year now. Prior to installing these cables, our customers were complaining about the poor audio quality of our music downloads. Many would complain about jitter and other audio distortions caused by poor server wiring. Once we made the commitment to our customers and invested in the purchase of these quality cables, the complaints have stopped and our business has been booming.
Many of our competitors will use cheap wiring they purchased from Radio Shack or Fries. Some even use Fiber Optic links, claiming they are immune to jitter. But Fiber Optic links are known to degrade video downloads--the light in the cable will sometimes make the videos play with a reddish tint.
It doesn't take much to hear the difference in audio quality offered by our bit torrent servers vs our competition and their lower quality cabling. Before spending a single penny on a music download, make sure the service uses AKDL1 cabling in their data center. You would be a fool to download from any other provider.
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For $500 I would have expected these cables to be worn in. They aren't. The procedure for pre use wear in of digital cables is significantly different to analog cables. They should be worn in for a period of 24 hours in each direction. Use a unidirectional protocol! _Never_ use TCP for wearing in digital cables, as TCP uses return packets for acknowledging, causing interference in the uplink channel being pre worn. Use UDP or ICMP (no ping) for wearing. Preferable use a payload of 64Kb with a datapacket consisting of consecutive 1's and 0's to settle the electrons. After 24 hours, reverse the cable and repeat. Always make sure that the cable is connected to a sender and a receiver, as Layer 2 will prevent data transmission if there is no positive ARP response from the receiver.
This process is quite delicate and difficult, and I would have expected it to be performed by the manufacturer for this pricetag.
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This product is absolute proof that the old adage of "there's a sucker born every minute" is still alive and well even today.
I have to give it to Denon, though. They really know how to make a buck. To bad they are privately held. Anybody who can sell $500 ethernet cables should have pretty good profit margins.
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For 400$, I would have expected the inner wiring to be made of pure gold or even carbon superconductors... But alas, it is only made out of copper. Needless to say, I quickly returned the standard cable to the store!
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I bought a denon receiver at the beginning of the year. This makes me mad enough to want to smash it. I've already felt it was a downgrade in sound quality from my old yamaha.
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And don't be suckered by this nonsense. Digital signals are 1/0 on/off yes/no. If the signal makes it (which it will on any crappy wire) it's accurate and exactly what you need. If it doesn't, it will fail spectacularly and will be obvious (i.e., nothing comes out of the speaker/system) -- don't be a fool and pay 100x more than a set of 6 wires is worth.
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I wish that I could give this product the full five stars. Based on its ability to enhance the musical, spatial, temporal and spiritual qualities of any recording, it is worth many multiples of the reasonable asking price. Unfortunately, Denon does not provide the necessary warning regarding the directionality of the cable. As I write this email, a small black hole is tearing through the space time fabric of my living room, consuming everything in its path (including my former pet Chihuahua, Wolfgang). A simple warning to prevent me from having reverse cabled my new joy for experimental reasons would have also spared me the horror of bidding adieu to 20 years woth of collecting (yes my cabbage patch dolls and hummel figurines are now faint memories of the past, for this dimension anyway). I bid you all adieu as I now see my walls dissolving... goodbye cruel worl
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