[ /. ]Hi Sound Quality Ethernet Cable

[Ihmhi]

So, someone is selling a $500 Ethernet cable. No, that's not a typo. Five hundred fucking dollars. Now I know what you're thinking, this shit had better be gold-plated and sprinkled with diamond dust and cocaine, but alas it is not.

Who the Hell would buy this, you ask? Why the audiophile, of course! You know, the person who dumps more money on his home theater than he does on a new car every year.

I don't know what's funnier, the Slashdot article or the Product Reviews on Amazon. Before a sample of some of the reviews, the product description:

Amazon.com Product Description
Get the purest digital audio you've ever experienced from multi-channel DVD and CD playback through your Denon home theater receiver with the AK-DL1 dedicated cable. Made of high-purity copper wire, it's designed to thoroughly eliminate adverse effects from vibration and helps stabilize the digital transmission from occurrences of jitter and ripple. A tin-bearing copper alloy is used for the cable's shield while the insulation is made of a fluoropolymer material with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties. The connector features a rounded plug lever to prevent bending or breaking and direction marks to indicate correct direction for connecting cable.

Riiiight.

Disappointing quality 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.

It gets me closer to The Lord by G.P.

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.

[KubeDawg]

copper = expensive.

[zSilver_Fox]

Too bad coat hangers are just as effective.

[Sh4x]

lol... the last review was great.

[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Some people just WANT to be scammed...

[mervaka]

i'm quite content with using good old differential signalling to achieve my uber high SNR.