This is a truly amazing cable. I had to borrow a engineer friend's oscilloscope to believe it, but the signals propagate down this cable near the speed of light. When used with a set of Pear Anjou speaker cables, you can kiss those annoying audio/video sync problems when viewing Blu-Ray movies in your home theater goodbye!
My friend pointed out that the secret is in the blue dots on the cable, not the cable itself. Apparently, this is a metallic pigment which helps negate the resistive losses in the cable; resistive losses are why you need bigger wires in the higher amp circuits in your house. The dots add capacitive coupling in key spots. I couldn't quite follow the math he was getting at, but apparently it's the same technique used in those cell phone signal booster stickers.
Nonetheless, I spent an evening carefully painting 1/16" stripes on one of my existing ethernet cables, spaced 3/4" apart, using metallic paint (Testors Green Metal Flake #1530 works well). I let it dry overnight and, sure enough, this formerly ordinary cable was now transmitting at near the speed of light, too!
The home grown technique does take a bit of time, so it's not for everyone. But for me, $5 cable + $2 paint + 4 hours of time adds up to a lot less than $500.
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I'm an engineer, so trust me on this one. Sound is a wave, moving in one direction. A uni-directional cable such as this is needed for optimum listening pleasure. Some other poster, incorrectly I might humbly add, said using it backwards causes the music to play backwards. Installing it in reverse causes the 1's and 0's to start to clog the line since they have no where to go. As a result, you'll get no sound at all. If you do that, be careful when you turn the cable around as all the 1's and 0's will come out at once, potentially overloading your ethernet connection and exceeding your ISP's bandwidth caps.
Overall, I gave it 5 stares because, in spite of the price (apparently there is one made every minute), it clearly does what it is designed to do.
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$500 is really ripping off Dennon, these cables are worth 5x that much...yep thats right, $1500!!! If you believe these other readers that its all just "1" and "0" then I suggest you go back and read your bible. Each one of these cables is blessed in the blood of a dead pope. I hooked it up to my Daewoo surround sound (that's right surround like the movie theater) system that I got at Walmart and it sounds like a there is a symphony in my pedophile listening room. When I listen to Chris Daughtry or Creed with this cable I can truly feel the pain and anguish that they must feel getting up every morning and realize they are Chris Daughtry and Creed. This cable is so good that it brought my dead mother back to life when I played Skynard. I give this cable 6 out of 5 stars.
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For $500, you'd expect that they'd make the top plastic tab into metal and at least cover it with a rubber hood to prevent it from bending or breaking.
It's sad that this cable's plastic tab breaks as easily as a normal $10 cable. Not to mention the marketing and the the rationale for the price is just ridiculous.
If anything, all this product does is drag Denon's name into the mud.
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I thought I would get laid more if I took hot bitches back to my place and showed them that I am a man of means and class because I own a $500, fifty-nine inch cable.
It didn't work.
But the cable is great for auto-erotic asphixiation.
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A coworker had recently bragged to me about buying these cables, and when i told him what he was really buying, he was shocked.
He hadn't shown up to work for the last couple days and the boss got in this morning, he said that the guy's wife "found him in the garage, hanging by a noose made of some sort of speaker wires he had just purchased".
R.I.P. - Frank Grimes.
I guess these cables are pretty rugged.
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Just walk in any computer store and say, "I need a 5 foot Cat5 cable," and you'll get a cable with the exact same "digital quality" for $5.
If you want to mix it up a bit, you can try, "I need a 5 foot cat6 cable." Now you might have to pay between $1 and $10 more for such a "limited edition" cat6 cable, but you will get the same "digital quality".
And to those who were being sarcastic by giving it a higher rating:
For every one of you who rates it as a "5 star," it takes 5 people rating it as a "1 star" to get it back down to 1 star more than it deserves.
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Well, not to brag, but I have to say I've found many additional uses than what this cable was originally intended for. First I thought it was just a mere audio cable that I've seen at every audiophile store in the land, but oh, its much more. This is not only a audio cable that has recieved the utmost detail to manufacturing attention. I have also been able to hook it up to my Router that connects into my DSL Connection and instantly upgrade myself to a OC-3 connection. Yes thats 400+Mbps of Data streaming into my house, just by merely connecting this cable between my DSL Modem and my Router. You jest?, Well the reason why is the quality is extremely higher than a typical Cat-5 Cable, or even a Cat-6 Cable. I would have to say this cable is rated at cat-7 or even better. Along with being able to upgrade my 1.5mbps DSL connection to 400+mbps, I have been able to successfully utilize this cable to connect my PC into a Switch that allows me to establish one of the most amazing home networks. Just by doing this I think I'm running at a 10gigabit + network speed. Its amazingly fast, with this cable and a few tweaks like upgrading the switches in my house, my network cars in my PC, actually buying a different cable, I've been able to achieve a LAN speed of 10Gigabit.
I must say the only thing I haven't tried to do with this cable is replace the powercord on my toast and hardwire this to the electrical current in my house to see if it will give me a more perfect slice of toast. Not that I'm questioning its ability to not, I have to solely believe that if I do this my toast from my toaster will be the holy grail of toasts. I'll be able to sell my secret recipe to Mc Donalds and then Mc Donalds will finally have Toast with their Big Breakfasts.
See in reality all you joke about this cable being so expensive, but if your looking to get ahead in life, you need to buy this cable. This cable will be one of the sole reasons why you become rich. It will help you out with your chores, I have mine mowing the lawn right now. I said hey Cable. I spent $500 on you, your gonna mow the lawn. Granted, I kinda have a feeling its going to be just handing on the handle where I left it and the Lawn won't be mowed. But if that happens, their will be H*LL to pay.. I will serve this cable up a heapin' helping of a can of Whoop @$$.
Needless to say, me and my $500 cable have become great friends, actually because everyone quit being my friend, because I say they are Jealous, they tell me I'm stupid for spending $500 on a $3 cable.. I say they are just Jealous.
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