Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable

The comments on the Amazon page are classic.

"Due to the extreme speeds at which energy moves through the cable, it was no surprise that these effects would cause the cable housing to become quantum entangled with itself in space and time, thusly bringing the cable (interior and exterior) into its own self-generating time dilation field."

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0...

There is still a qualitative difference between digital and analog signals. With analog signals, you can always get higher fidelity by upgrading components (until something else becomes the bottleneck). With digital, there are gradients of "wrong" but there is only one "right." Once you hit the threshold of bits not being flipped, getting more expensive and higher-quality components will not get you better-sounding playback. A digital cable can achieve literally perfect playback. Analog cannot reach perfection, which means it's always possible to improve.

I'm not an electrical engineer so I don't know what the threshold of perfection is, but if the consumer reports can't tell the fancy cable apart from the Radio Shack equivalent of two-buck chuck, I'm not going to worry about it.

On an unrelated note: this is a listing on amazon for 6 feet of digital audio cable for over a thousand dollars. Read the comments. Comic gold. http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0...

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0...

The Amazon reviews for that cable are wonderful:

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0...

A small sampling: (there are many, many more)

    Transmission of music data at rates faster than the
    speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I
    was hearing the music before I actually wanted to
    play it. Apparently Denon forgot how accustomed most
    of us are to unidirectional time and the general laws
    of physics. 


    I can't recommend this cable enough. I bought a set of 
    four for my home cinema setup, and I haven't regretted
    it at all. [...] When I sit down and listen to the 
    transcendent music they produce, I can feel my pain 
    just drift away. Sometimes I even play a CD, but that's
    not really necessary.

Have you read the reviews for high end cables on Amazon - they seem to be a motherlode of sarcasm.

My favourite review is from John L (Border of Wasteland, Former USA) on a Denon cable:

"This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES."

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0...

Reminds me of: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Cable-Version/dp...

It's now discontinued, it used to be $1000 then $500. The reviews are priceless.

Reminiscent of the Diamond series of HDMI cables on Amazon that sold for thousands of dollars. The Amazon reviews on these products are hilarious:

https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethernet-Connec...

Edit: also, if you want more, see the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable:

https://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B...