$500 for a 1.5 meter network cable???

[4GHZ_or_bust]

$500 (no typo) Cat5E Ethernet 60 inch cable.....for Denon digitial audio
products....:eek::screwy:
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
Yes, it's really just fancy pimped up Ethernet cable. Amazon.com's user
reviews of this had me in tears.... :screwy::bang head
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM

Someone's been copying Monster Cable idea.

If someone really needs to hear undistorted audio, he shouldn't be listening to any recorded medium but rather listen at the source only, the orchestra, opera, concert, or whatever.

[thideras]

Yup If there is a market for a product, someone will make the product :)

[Leonardo]

Thanks for the link to the reviews. That's some of the best humor I've seen in a long time.Finally, when we were forced to agree that there was no technology on earth that could make "Hootie and the Blowfish" sound better, we resorted to a complicated marketing strategy called "Let's make it more expensive". And then someone raised their hand, and said,"Let's make it WAY more expensive". And that person is our new Vice President. So we did, and do you know what? Listening to "Hootie and the Blowfish" through our cable actually does make the band sound better now. And do you know why? Because even that is better than saying you wasted $500.00 on a cable.Priceless, simply priceless. :clap:

[jivetrky]

I Love this part too:

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

snake oil (127)
ripoff (99)
waste of money (97)
throwing your money away (84)
unconscionable (83)
stupid (72)
pure garbage (52)
cheat (48)
immoral (41)
denon (15)
harry potter (11)

[maxspam]

harry potter what the hell?

[gangaskan]

i love this tag the best

itsjustadamnethernetcable

[technoViking]

lol amazing,



272 of 291 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It gets me closer to The Lord, June 11, 2008
By G. P. (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my 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. Holding this cable in my hands actually makes me feel that much closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. I only make $6.25/hr at Jack In The Box, but I saved up for three months so I could have this cable. It sits in a shrine I constructed next to my futon in Mother's basement.

I only gave it four stars in my review because I can't find music that is worthy enough to flow through this utterly perfect interconnect.

[Mpegger]

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for Freedom Has Never Sounded Better, June 15, 2008

I was drinking a hot cup of Hoffee when this cable finally came in the mail. It is so revolutionary, the when the mailman pressed the doorbell, it shattered all the windows in my home, similar to the sonic boom created by the Olson twins' bizjet flying Lance Armstrong to New York. I delicately placed the sanctified spaghetti string between my 1995 IBM Aptiva Pentium w/MMX technology (makes the media player visualizer so much more intense) computer and my 2.5 watt 7.2 Klipsch speaker setup wired around the doghouse. I have never heard sleep-depriving white noise played so accurately, or with such attitude, continuously. It's almost as if pieces of the ethereal Ethernet cable are being pumped through the speaker cones, as if Klipsch and Denon secretly collaborated to design a speaker/cable setup that actually throws gold particles at my eardrums, and those of my beloved but sleep-deprived puppies. I am almost 100% sure this cable was used in David Hasselhoff's Looking for Freedom concert atop the Berlin Wall, the very same show that ended communism in Europe. While listening to the Hoffenschosh's albums, I noted that Hot Shot City is particulary good.

http://www.jal2s.com/uploader/files/1/crackup.gif http://www.jal2s.com/uploader/files/1/crackup.gif

[nightelph]

Holy GOD I just read through the first page of reviews, sent the link to a dozen people. This is the pinnacle of geek humor!

[petteyg359]

I don't think they'll be selling any of these cables with those reviews :) Even really dumb people will scroll down to the reviews on a $500 product.

[Jayws]

I don't think they'll be selling any of these cables with those reviews :) Even really dumb people will scroll down to the reviews on a $500 product.

You REALLY never know. :screwy:

[blakehenry00]

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.

[Krypto]

lol amazing,

272 of 291 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It gets me closer to The Lord, June 11, 2008
By G. P. (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my 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. Holding this cable in my hands actually makes me feel that much closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. I only make $6.25/hr at Jack In The Box, but I saved up for three months so I could have this cable. It sits in a shrine I constructed next to my futon in Mother's basement.

I only gave it four stars in my review because I can't find music that is worthy enough to flow through this utterly perfect interconnect.

LMFAO :clap:

[EmAn]

I think I will make a rip-off of these and sell them for $350 for TWICE the length!!!

[thideras]

I think I will make a rip-off of these and sell them for $350 for TWICE the length!!!How will you make money!?!??! :confused:

[nightelph]

I'm gonna buy three and cobble an FM antenna together. Then channel dark forces a-la that building in the ghostbusters movie. :)

[IntelLoyalist]

You fools!

Don't you realize that three of those cables places an equiangular pattern will form the core of a flux capacitor?!?

[defiant79]

Wow, these are better than the reviews on Newegg. LMAO!!!! I wonder if the prices on eBay will go up now on some "similar" items, lol!

[Jayws]

Wow, these are better than the reviews on Newegg. LMAO!!!! I wonder if the prices on eBay will go up now on some "similar" items, lol!

Pro's: I just bought this QX9775 and it's amazing! Totally worth the money because it's WAY faster at surfing the internets and opening word documents than my old 1.4ghz Athlon XP!!

Con's: NONE! Everyone should buy one of these.

Other thought's: 4 cores make's my single threaded applications run so much faster than a single core processor. I saw that there was a difference in GHz but since when has the operating frequency had to do with anything? At least it doesn't interfere with my 2.4ghz wireless router.

[uberwoot]

Rumor is Chuck Norris assembles these cables in the lost city of Atlantis on the weekends.

[nightelph]

LMFAO!!

[Diddyu]

I think Monster will probably sue because they came up with the original idea of ripping off the public and now Denon is stealing their concept.

This guy might actually be right...

[Ben333]

[quote]I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound.[quote/] LOL

Gotta love those reviews :p

[Mr.Guvernment]

it is meant for Audio not networking... nuts. but still, sure it is as great as Monster cables are.


For the Audiophiles throwing their money away

http://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables

[uberwoot]

I should sell some high preformace Wifi cables i got here.

[jokers_greg]

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
bwahahhaha

[jokers_greg]

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Windows Vista Ready, June 17, 2008
By John L. Poole (Belmont, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Buyers beware: these cables may not work on Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 1.0.0.3.0.2), and the scuttlebutt on knowledgeable forums is that certification is probably months, if not at least a year away. (They do work on XP, provided you are running on an Intel based motherboard.)

Down-rated for not being compliant with the industry standard: Vista.

$20 says that if they put "vista ready" badges or "SLI certified" sales will increas by 30% lol

[redwraith94]

...Made from high purity copper wire...

I wunder what all those other cables are made out of? Surely not electro-refined copper...

[Ascii2]

$500 (no typo) Cat5E Ethernet 60 inch cable.....for Denon digitial audio
products....:eek::screwy:
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.aspSeems to be at $499 now, but I see no way to add the cable to cart.

[Spyral]

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote
51% buy
Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote 4.2 out of 5 stars (460)
$76.82

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
49% buy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl 4.3 out of 5 stars

super smash bros ? do they need to get rid of the aggro that that stupid cable inflicts on sane people ?

[Vengance_01]

Pro's: I just bought this QX9775 and it's amazing! Totally worth the money because it's WAY faster at surfing the internets and opening word documents than my old 1.4ghz Athlon XP!!

Con's: NONE! Everyone should buy one of these.

Other thought's: 4 cores make's my single threaded applications run so much faster than a single core processor. I saw that there was a difference in GHz but since when has the operating frequency had to do with anything? At least it doesn't interfere with my 2.4ghz wireless router. wow newegg should really filter some of these reviews:screwy: