Review from an Amazon customer: Disappointing quality, June 11, 2008 By Michael McKinley
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews. I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance. Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon. > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:21:03 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet > cable > > You guys don't know what you're talking about. Have you even tried this cable > or are you just believing what people tell you? This cable brought out the > highs in my music better than any cable I have ever used. Better than my Pear > Anjou's, Stealth Indra's even my MT Oracle cable. > > You guys are so lame. > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hayes Elkins > Sent: Fri 6/13/2008 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet > cable > > > > > It's a "proprietary interconnect", meaning they take a 30 cent run of chinese > cat-5 and cross a few wires. Genius.> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:39 -0400> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] OT > - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500 Ethernet cable>> Yep. From what > I can gather it's just an ethernet cable used to connect> various pieces of > Denon gear together. You know, the same technology that> we have been using > to connect various computers together for quite a bit of> time.>> ----> > Brian>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Hayes Elkins > wrote:>>>>>>> And of > all things, a super expensive interconnect for a RECIEVER? LOL!! The>> most > miserably marketed snake oil product ever put forth I think. At least>> prior > snake oil audiophile garbage was hawked to the right target - owners>> of > high end "audiophile" gear.>>>> With most home theaters having a 100% digital > chain>> (hdmi/dvi/coax/optical), you'd think this kind of crap would go > away.>> Apparently Denon didn't get the memo.>>>>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 > 15:51:02 -0400>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> To: > [email protected]>>> Subject: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are > idiots- the $500 Ethernet>> cable>>>>>> > http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp#>>>>>> "Additionally, signal > directional markings are provided for optimum>> signal>>> transfer.">>>>>> > Um, yeah. They show data goes both in and out of each plug.>>>>>> ---->>> > Brian>>>> _________________________________________________________________>> > It's easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through>> > Windows Live(tm) Messenger. Learn how.>> > https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow > _________________________________________________________________ > Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you > on Windows Live(tm) Messenger. > https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends > _________________________________________________________________ Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends
