Showing posts with label Denon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denon. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Denon Ultra Premium Rip-off Cables: Part II

Do you remember when, a few days ago, I talked about those absurdly priced Denon Ethernet Digital Audio Cables promising the "purest digital audio" ever?

Well, if there's one thing you can't deny is that there are lots of people out there with a caustic sense of humor! :)

Check out what some people have said about said cables on Amazon's Customer reviews:

"If I could use a rusty boxcutter to carve a new orifice in my body that's compatible with this link cable, I would already be doing it. I can just imagine the pure musical goodness that would flow through this cable into the wound and fill me completely -- like white, holy light."

“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.”

"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.”

"I accidentally dropped one end of my Denon cable into a glass of Tuscan whole milk I was drinking. Later when I finished my milk (yeah, I still drank it; should I not have done that?), my right arm (lost in an accident in 1987) spontaneously grew back. Is that normal?"

via [Boing boing]

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Denon Ultra Premium Rip-off Cables

I can't understand how someone can fall for this stuff...

Denon has introduced a set of Ethernet "Ultra Premium" AK-DL1 59 inch cables to connect to their Denon-Link components.

The issue is: they cost $500!

That's right, half a G for a set of ethernet cables transporting digital information - something that any sub $5 Cat5 Ethernet cable can do.

As if it wasn't enough all the "hocus-pocus" going around on the analog hifi cable debate - with the alleged audiophiles not being able to tell the difference between cables costing thousands of dollars and a coat hanger - now they're trying to do the same in the digital world?

Are their Zero's and One's better than any others? Geeeezzz...

[Denon via Gizmodo]

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