Marked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
June 20th, 2008 by David Gerard
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.
— from Amazon customer reviews of the finest cable in existence.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I like that they’re just about all taking the piss.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The funniest thing about this post is that of the hundreds of customer reviews that were posted, that Kessel run quote was buried 3-4 pages in, and it was the exact quote that I also had me lolling the most and posted it to people as a laff.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
It’s a shame that Jerry Pournelle feels the need to hide behind a pseudonym these days. I guess it’s all the Mexicans stealing his health care.