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Will these cables support Epic Data rates?

Er... Nothing more than an outlandishly overpriced CAT-5e patch cord with a braided cover and moulded connector boots. In other words, don't waste your time/money on it. Just look at all the sarcasm in the reviews, pretty good for a laugh. In fact, when you say the price "seems attractive enough", I can only interpret that as sarcasm here too.

Anyway, not sure what you're asking exactly, or if you're even serious. I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay the $$$ that these cables are supposedly selling for. What a joke. I'd say it's funny, but I'm sure some poor person has bought into the scam somewhere.
 
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Of course I'm not serious!
The Epic thing was just a way of sneaking into this forum :-)
I mean, we've all heard "LOL" often enough, this site really makes you do it...
I mean, really:

"In life one rarely encounters a product of such complete and total perfection. The so called dedicated link cable from Denon's nearest competitor is positively shambolic by comparison. This product costs US$500 and in my opinion that is bloody value for such quality and best in class performance. The cable installs, at each end, into it's receptacle with a satisfactory click. I spent hours simply plugging and unplugging it, then it was time for the purging of ear particulate mater. Through the usual high pressure water/vacuum method recommended by auditory wizard Harry Earl Winston III I was ready to experience this gift from the gods. Immediately thereafter I walked into the music chamber and closed the airlock door. I placed upon the golden turntable Pachelbel Canon in D Major and began to power up the sundry equipment and surround speakers. Two hours later I sat upon the ice block and switched on the final power button. In an explosion of sound I was warped into another dimension. Something was wrong, but oh, so right. My Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable with its high-purity copper wire had instantly accelerated Mozart from 40 beats per minute to almost 400,000,000,000 beats per second. As it pulsed through my existence shredding and then recombobulating by intellect, my senses and awareness were transcended. I instantly became a greater being, a provider of life and a devourer of worlds. I now speak 500 Earth languages, read minds and can read the nutritional information on a box of Count Chocula from more than a thousand kilometers away in an instant.

I live now amongst the sherpas in the ancient and hidden Rolwaling valley region north of Kathmandu where they treat me as a man-god. Am I a god? Can I drive my enemies out before me with merely a thought? Can I hear the lamentations of their women and children? I am reticent! Although I am legally deaf in any spiritually bankrupt Occidental reckoning, I hear the world with my mindsey...ears. and my mind speaks to you with is minds...mouth: 'I command thee obsequious fools, buy these cables for the salvation of mankind!'

Now I must leave you as my servant prepares to roll me to the palace gardens for contemplation time."


Did you actually find a serious review in there?!
 
Haha. Look at it from my point of view. I run across at least one or two posts every few days on these forums that are similar to yours. Except the poster is in fact serious as a heart attack. You never can tell...
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Haha. Look at it from my point of view. I run across at least one or two posts every few days on these forums that are similar to yours. Except the poster is in fact serious as a heart attack. You never can tell...
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Amazon reviews are legendary.
The two factors that have fuelled this phenomenon are

1. Amazon's one-size-fits-all page layout, which sometimes produces unintentional hilarity.
Originally, everything (including food, personal hygiene items and so on) was listed as "New and used from:"
Tuscan Whole Milk seems a particular favourite, as posters discussed the virtues of buying new vs used(!) Tuscan Whole Milk! (Exactly who would want to pay six times the supermarket price to have a gallon of pretty ordinary milk delivered by a courier van is another hot topic).
Sadly, they've corrected that oversight, and now such items no longer offer a "used" option. (Although they still feel it's necessary to add the "New" rider :-)
Another lampoon-magnet is the invitation to post a review of the most trivial items, such as a 65 cent pen. People do actually post serious reviews of such things, inevitably followed by a flood of somewhat less-serious ones.

2. Amazon's "hands-off" editorial policy, which strictly prohibits the deletion or editing of negative user reviews, (except for profanity or potentially libellous content).

In the cable reviews, every now and again there will be what looks like is going to be a "serious" post from a HiFi apologist, offering "the other side of the story", but which inevitably turns into another piss-take.

I particularly liked the audiophile explanation for the alleged "directionality" of digital interconnect cables.

Apparently the internal digital processing software in consumer-grade digital audio equipment is based on the Sans Serif Arial font. In that, "1's" and "0's" are identical if mirror-reversed, so it doesn't matter which way round the cable goes in.
Higher quality audiophile equipment on the other hand, uses more advanced and complex fonts such as Times New Roman, where the little doohicky sticking out to the left of the top of the ones can cause problems if it's back-to-front, but "only on systems costing about $60,000 and up".

The only flaw in this otherwise excellent explanation is that 1's in the Arial font also have the little doohicky, but I guess not too many people bothered to check.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Amazingly I actually saw someone link to the Tin of Uranium for its legitimate purpose the other day...
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Is that the one with the negative review where the alleged purchaser complained that he bought a tin 4.4 billion years ago and when he opened it recently it was half empty?
(One for the Geeks)
 
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