Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
Best cable ever, June 14, 2008
This cable literally saved my life.
Someone broke into my house and they threatened me with a gun. When I said that I could prove that using better copper for a digital connection makes the audio sent over it sound better they didn’t beleive me.
I made a deal with them to spare my life if it was true.
I hooked my Denon 3808CI with my Denon DVD player with HDMI and it sounded ok. Being an audiophile I know this is low-quality sound. I only spent 100 bucks on that 3 foot cable! Hah!
Then I hooked up the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable and the would-be robber had to admit that I had beaten reason and logic with my $500 ethernet cable.
Terrible rip off, June 14, 2008
I can’t believe a product like this ever made it to market. This is simply a normal cat 5 or cat 6 STP (shielded twisted pair) cable. You can buy similar cables for $5-$10 at most. I can make my own for about $1…10 cents a foot for raw cable and 25 cents each for the end connectors. The quality will be exactly the same because a digital cable is a digital cable. Either you get the signal or you don’t.
You’ve never seen clearer 1s and 0s, June 18, 2008
I’m quite positive that this cable uses a clearer font to transmit the 1s and 0s from between my components. Sure you’re thinking. . .all 1s and 0s are created and transmitted equally, right? Wrong! This cable only sends Times New Roman Bold typeface 1s and 0s. $500 is a bargain for for all the joy this cable has brought me. This cable is to that other junk that passes as Cat 5, as Flutie Flakes are to Wheaties. It’s silly to even use the word digital to describe this cable, this cable looks down on digital and makes it feel embarrassed.
Analog concepts in a Digital world, June 17, 2008
A quote regarding high end digital cables.
“I wish people would learn what “digital” means. In the old days when everything was analog, using a better wire to connect devices might indeed have some benefits. Even now, the connection between the receiver and the speakers is analog so using better wire can have some sonic effects.
However, when the transmission is _digital_ (as in HDMI), all the receiving end needs to be able to do is to tell whether a bit is a 1 or a 0. It doesn’t matter at _all_ whether the bit is 1% beyond the detection threshold or completely at the limit for the medium (i.e truly at zero volts or at 5.00 volts if that is the max allowed). If the detector sees a “1″, it sees a “1″. The “1″ doesn’t get any better or any cleaner because the analog voltage on the wire was closer to the “ideal” voltage for a “1″.”
No Support!, June 17, 2008
NO WHERE in the instructions does it tell me where where the heck I can buy the liquid hydrogen to keep the cryo-mass in my AKDL1 cool!
I’m worried enough to call the NRC soon, as I’m afraid once the factory loaded liquid hydrogen is gone this thing is going critical on me. If your living anywhere near PA you may want to look into Iodide pills. ttfn…
Don’t be a sucker, June 16, 2008
This $500 cable is listed at only 1.5 m, and you may think that is too short for your application. That could easily be the case with other nominally 59″ cables, which is why you should consider nothing but the Denon AKDL1. It will work beautifully no matter what spatial constraints you encounter. I’m not suggesting that the cable magically expands to fill the gap, although I wouldn’t doubt that it could. No, once you have this marvelous investment in your hands, you will gladly rearrange your environment to accommodate it. It’s worth it!
Barnum cable., June 15, 2008
For those that don’t know anything about digital electronics, the data streamed over these cables is in the form of 1′s and 0′s(on and off), even if the cable were slightly defective the data stream will contain some form of error correcting code(checksum) so if a bit is flipped due to an electrical glitch, the receiver chip will compare what the data should look like to what has actually been sent(the digital music is held in a small buffer and the chip compares data values, too long to get into the details here) and correct the error. CD’s have been using error correcting technology for over 25 years now to playback your CD with almost no errors. Even there is 1 bit out of order every 42000(once a second) you would never hear it!
The only people who will buy this are the analog audiophiles who don’t know any better and want something they think they can brag about to their non-audiophile friends to impress them with how much money they can spend. (they still use vacuum tubes in their amps because it looks more cool and they claim has better electrical stability, yeah right). A $5 cable from the computer store will give you exactly the same results!
Yep, it’s Barnum cable for those suckers born every minute. Denon must’ve really lost their minds this time.
