Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
Adults only!, June 17, 2008
I tried using the cable between my router and my computer and–all of a sudden–all pictures from the internet show women with highly detailed see-through clothing! Also, it looks as though someone did a nice touch-up on their hair and make-up…fine lines and wrinkles have been magically removed, and their hair looks like they just walked out of the beauty salon. Overall, an amazing internet cable whose ability to change digital data for the better is right out of the 25th century (or beyond)…but be careful about who might be surfing the web through this cable from the future!
It even works with my iPod, June 16, 2008
I bought this cable for my COBY iPod docking station, and my music has never sounded clearer. It actually sounds better than real life. Since then I’ve taken to recording conversations and playing them back over this cable because I just can’t handle normal sounds anymore. I’m buying another one for my VOIP-o-phone at work so that I’ll always sound crystal clear no matter how much I’ve had to drink. This product has improved my life more than I could have imagined.
I’m still testing out the anti-aging properties of this cable, but I haven’t found any gray hairs so far. The instructions on this weren’t very clear; I’m not sure if I need to keep it wrapped around my body all the time or if just an hour a day is sufficient.
There IS a difference in quality between cheap and expensive cables., June 17, 2008
There IS a difference in quality between cheap and expensive cables. For an analog cable, such as a 1 meter stereo RCA cable, you can get a cheap one for $5, a decent one for $15, or a top end broadcast quality cable for… $35, MAYBE up to $70.
For a digital cable such as this one, you can get a cheap one for $5, or a super-high-end, super-well-constructed one for…. $20. This cable is a complete rip off. It’s impossible for a digital signal to not be transmitted properly unless a cable has actual physical damage to it.
SPEND YOUR MONEY ON SPEAKERS INSTEAD.
Not Windows Vista Ready, June 17, 2008
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.
Please use common sense, June 14, 2008
And don’t be suckered by this nonsense. Digital signals are 1/0 on/off yes/no. If the signal makes it (which it will on any crappy wire) it’s accurate and exactly what you need. If it doesn’t, it will fail spectacularly and will be obvious (i.e., nothing comes out of the speaker/system) — don’t be a fool and pay 100x more than a set of 6 wires is worth.
To all the Haters, June 17, 2008
Seriously, for all you haters out there, I too remember what it was like to be poor. I too used to look on with envy at Ferraris, Cartier watches, Learjets (incidentally, I recently upgraded to the Learjet 85, it tops out at Mach .82). But that’s no reason to look askance at a superior product which, frankly, any poor person such as yourself could not possibly hope to understand. With my system (loosely modeled on Tom Vu’s legendary sales methodology) you too could become rich enough to own a piece of audio perfection. But, frankly, unless you also apply yourself to the spiritual/intellectual study of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal (as evidenced by Schroedinger’s Cat and Copernican Revolution), you will fail to appreciate the nuances of the Denon AKDL1 that make it worth the price. So, make fun if you like, but you only showcase your shocking ignorance of the profound. People with refined sensibilities buy Denon and the rest can – as the luminous intellect Tom Friedman said – “Suck. On. This.”
Frighteningly Good Data Smoothing!!!, June 17, 2008
I bought this cable and a second Ethernet card for my computer. I connected each end of the cable to an ethernet card (paying careful attention to the directional arrows, of course) and started typing. No music for me — I was going for literature. The crisp, sharp ones and zeros were soon flowing faster and faster, round and round like electrons in a superconductor, my prose growing more prolix and my poor, doubly penetrated computer emitting a strange blue glow and a soft humming and whistling noise not unlike that of a Tuvan throat singer.
I became deeply afraid. Shortly thereafter, foreign policy statements were beginning to be produced without my input. Spreadsheets began to filter data showing how the national budget was going to be balanced. MS Project started to display the disbursement of the national budget to Halliburton. Previously crisp ones and zeros became slightly malapropic with a Texas twang that was unmistakable.
Unplugging the computer no longer made a difference — as the black Suburbans with the tinted windows pulled to a stop in front of my house, the screen lit up with its final message to me: “The human millennium will be a fact. In time, you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love.”
