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- AngryAngryBrian, on 06/20/2008, -4/+712 Try our new super Ethernet cable using category LAB (like a billion) cabling. constructed from high grade copper recovered from ancient Spartan armor used during combat. These one of kind cables are wrapped use a high tech carbon stand shielding converted from the lining from old ICBM rocket cones blessed by 4 popes and covered in the blood of a thousand virgins. The RJ45 connectors are made of pure diamond, chipped from the hope diamond, by Jesus himself his only tools being lightning and angel tears. Now available with telepathic easy release systems. Why unplug your high quality network cable with your hands, when you can do it with your mind. Comes with a free carrying case made from meteorite and dinosaur bones.
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[Add to Cart] - perkonis, on 06/19/2008, -2/+499But they have "signal directional markings." That's got to be worth something, right? Signals are just so damned unruly if they don't have directional markings to follow.
- dreicher, on 06/20/2008, -1/+387The Amazon reviews on this are priceless.
"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..."
"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."
More at: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000I1X6PM/re ... - daonlyfreez, on 06/20/2008, -28/+326Those are the same suckers that spend 10k+ or even 100k+ for their "high-def" audio systems (it has gold everywhere, it is so good!).
Never mind noone can really hear the difference between a "low-end", normal audio system and these so-called high-end systems. Sure, they'll tell you they can, but scientifically it is simply impossible. The human ear can only hear certain frequencies, and the older you get, the less frequencies you can still recognize. That is why you can't start with a studio-technicians education if you are over a certain age (27-30), because your ears simply cannot hear the higher frequencies no more...
~ 20 - 20.000 Hz is the range a toddler/younger person can hear/distinguish
~ 50 - 15.000 Hz is the realistic range an older person still can hear/distinguish
So, if somebody tells you: "It has high fidelity up to 20.000 Hz!", you could answer: "What do I care, I can't hear it anyway".
How do you think they are able to compress audio into formats like MP3, where they filter out a massive amount of frequencies, and any normal person cannot hear a difference (at higher bitrates that is)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range - tian2992, on 06/20/2008, -4/+270I am sad for Denon, they make great hi-def equippment. It is quite bad that they seem to be heading towards Monster's path
- srodolff, on 06/20/2008, -2/+248The cables are made out of unobtainium.
- greatblackowl, on 06/20/2008, -0/+220I did that before, and you wouldn't know the ***** I went through for it. It took me a week to get all of the pictures back that the internet downloaded from me.
- Ibox, on 06/20/2008, -1/+196Dude your add to cart button dosent work.
- cuppyCake, on 06/20/2008, -1/+148The markings aren't for the signals themselves, you see...they're there so you don't plug in the Ethernet cable backwards!
- staxofmax, on 06/20/2008, -1/+140What's next, high purity air for wireless speaker systems? If someone is going to drop $500 on a 5 ft ethernet cable, they'll buy anything.
- mykalimba, on 06/20/2008, -0/+131˙ǝuıɟ ʇsnɾ ʞɹoʍ oʇ sɯǝǝs ʇı ˙ʍou ʇɥƃıɹ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq uı pǝƃƃnld sı ǝlqɐɔ ʞɹoʍʇǝu ʎɯ
- Emachine, on 06/20/2008, -1/+131That's like over $498 in profit..
- InfiniteNothing, on 06/20/2008, -1/+115I'll give you a hint but you wont like it. They're closer than you think
- sandersdamnit, on 06/20/2008, -3/+101that, sir, was perfection
- BoneheadFarker, on 06/20/2008, -1/+93Not to defend the audiophiles that spend outrageous amounts of money for the same quality that I can get out of an old receiver I bought at Value Village for $20...but, you know those "mosquito ringtones" that supposedly only kids can hear? Yeah, I can hear them too, and I'm almost 30. I can also hear the high-pitched buzz of CRT monitors. Some of us don't lose the range of our hearing with age...unfortunately...I am so glad for the invention of LCD monitors...
- swgbex, on 06/20/2008, -1/+89Plug it in backwards and the 1s and 0s will get jammed. Its for your protection
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -2/+80Right here on Digg.
You never said they had to be female virgins. - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -4/+76"audio enthusiast" is EVERYONE's definition of "suckers"
- jedimasta, on 06/20/2008, -2/+73They're using carbon fiber end-casings in case you plan to street race your DVD player.
- Cryptkeeper, on 06/20/2008, -5/+76remember the guy who hooked up coat hangers, and technophiles didn't notice a difference?
- inigomntoya, on 06/20/2008, -0/+68My Fav:
"After I took delivery of my $500 Denon AKDL1 Cat-5 uber-cable, Al Gore was mysteriously drawn to my home, where he pronounced that Global Warming had been suspended in my vicinity.
Yes, I had perfect weather: no flooding, no tornadoes, the exact amount of rain necessary, and he pronounced sea levels exactly right and that they were not going to rise within five miles of my house.
Additionally, my cars began achieving 200 mpg and I didn't even need gasoline. I was able to put three grams of cat litter into the tank and drive forever.
What's more, the atmosphere inside my home became 93% oxygen and virtually no carbon dioxide. In fact, I now exhale oxygen.
One heck of a cable.
Didn't notice any improvement in audio quality though.
The $800 Apple iCable is clearly superior." - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+58People who bought this item also bought:
Brooklyn Bridge
Beach front property in Oklahoma
The Edsel - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+57Monster says so, so that must be true...
- Kisama, on 06/20/2008, -3/+55Looks like a Monster cable to me.
- jwhitman89, on 06/20/2008, -4/+54Denon Electronics (USA), LLC
100 Corporate Drive
Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2041
Aaahhhh, they're in New Jersey. It all makes sense now...
from: http://www.usa.denon.com/AboutUs.asp - OhTheHumanity1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+47Gotta read the Amazon reviews for a laugh: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000I1X6PM/re ...
- Sqlawl, on 06/20/2008, -1/+48Where can I find these thousand virgins?
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+46And the knowledge that somewhere in the house, a CRT television is turned on? I'm there too.
But at the same time, preserving my high frequency sensitivity to sound probably doesn't mean there is anything rich in the music we enjoy that uses frequencies like that. In fact, you could probably argue that a musician who probably can't hear at that range would consider anything at that frequency an intrusion on the sound they are trying to create for other people. - insertAliasHere, on 06/20/2008, -1/+44Or, you know, go to Monoprice.com and buy cables that are just as good for a ridiculous amount less. Especially for digital cables.
- yeblonski, on 06/20/2008, -5/+43Our modern industry just won't survive without this suckers
- l800LEMMINGS, on 06/20/2008, -3/+41the only benefits of gold in cables i found was it won't oxidize and in headphone jacks it doesn't crap out as fast since its a softer metal and bends easier, but most other crap you read is marketing *****
- lester1024, on 06/20/2008, -5/+42OrangeWhite Orange, GreenWhite Blue, BlueWhite Green, BrownWhite Brown - yea, that's worth 500 bucks.
- dood, on 06/20/2008, -0/+37I bet they've sold several.
Imagine this scenario. You've got $50k to spend on a new sound system. You go to a dealer, and they hook you up with everything, and even offer to professionally install it. They're not going to waste your time trying to talk you in to the fancy ethernet cable. They'll just say "And we carry high quality cables, which we'll use in the install, of course" and the customer will be happy. - InfiniteNothing, on 06/20/2008, -1/+35You wouldn't want your sound waves to travel through bad air. That can cause all sorts of distortion. Your audio will sound leafy
- nbyn, on 06/20/2008, -2/+36Thanks! Because my usual response to someone telling me "It has high fidelity up to 20.000 Hz!" is "Yeah, but does it make my penis bigger?".
- shadowspawn, on 06/20/2008, -3/+37I've seen cables that were pressurized with inert gas and high quality metals to allow really long runs, before cat6. but what always got me was that it was cheaper to run cat5 and put in a switch 1/2 way through the run.
- liquidfirex, on 06/20/2008, -10/+43You assume that every speaker that produces 20Hz to 20K Hz is exactly the same... and that makes you an idiot.
There is still a multitude of other factors that are very much discernible other than the speakers ability to reproduce certain frequencies.
You are a Bose fan, I know it. - Evazan21, on 06/20/2008, -2/+32I think you have a misunderstanding as to what high quality sound reproduction really is. There are a significant number of factors too consider besides the frequency range. You are correct in stating that most people can't tell the difference between MP3's and lossless formats but I assure you there are a large number of people who can. If you are listening to your compressed music through your cruddy ipod earphones then you probably won't be able to tell the difference. The difference is only truly noticeable with a high quality sound system.
Audio reproduction, like most things, is not a linear relationship between how much you spend and how much you get back. Spending 10k instead of 1k will not get you 10 times the performance but there are people out there that can detect, cherish, and want that difference. With that said I am very happy with my 250 dollar speaker system I built myself. I believe it performs just as well as commercially built systems up to over 1k. As of now I don't think I could really appreciate the nuances of a better system so I don't plan on upgrading.
I'd also like to add that I completely agree with you that cables make no difference. I remember reading an article somewhere about someone who changed "high quality" cables out for coat hangers at some audio event. He then asked people to compare the coat hangers to the same speakers with speaker wire and no one could tell a difference. - inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+29Question is, how many have they sold???
- zephyr42, on 06/20/2008, -0/+29If the internet could blush... It would have then.
- IllBeBack, on 06/20/2008, -2/+31You suck at basic math skills.
- paidhima, on 06/20/2008, -0/+28I find it humorous that there's a signal directional marking, and the marking is double-sided.
- Otto, on 06/20/2008, -1/+28Real Monster Cable Pro-Tip: Don't buy these overpriced pieces of ***** and get a real high quality cable for practically nothing at monoprice.com instead.
- dclowd9901, on 06/20/2008, -2/+29I can see the product development team frantic a day before the board presentation:
"***** ***** ***** ***** *****! Why'd we wait 'til the last second to come up with a new product. Okay, okay. Relax. Dale, what've you got?"
"Er... uh... " *Dale looks around the office frantically and darts for a mangled Cat5 laying in the corner* "Th-This?" he says, holding it up.
"That's stupid, Dale."
Dale suddenly looks pleased with himself. "For... $500 bucks?"
A hush falls over the room.
"Amazing... What're you all waiting for? Write it up!" - Kamujin, on 06/20/2008, -0/+27These kinds of wealth redistributions schemes have a built in self correcting mechanism that taxes don't.
Go rip-off artists! - dblespresso, on 06/20/2008, -1/+27The benifit on high end cables only really applies to non-digital formats. The audio only exists when the digital data frames are interpreted. So if the digital data is ok and passes checksum, there is no benifit.
- cadmiumpaint, on 06/20/2008, -3/+28Audiophiles will pay ridiculous prices for nothing. Weren't there some special stones you were supposed to put near your speakers? you could get them from the front yard or pay like 500 bux for some polished stones.
Don't ever dare ask an audiophile to prove why each component is so great....their elitism might make your brain explode. - Thrilltone, on 06/20/2008, -0/+25Check out Golden Ovals
http://www.wildwestelectronics.net/g-oval-10-10.ht ...
Living proof that there are people with far too much money. - flashingcurser, on 06/20/2008, -3/+28"by Jesus himself his only tools being lightning and angel tears."
You almost got me busted at work. Perfect. -
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