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.
I like that they’re just about all taking the piss.
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.
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.