60 inches of this ridiculous ethernet uber-cable costs $500
- June 11th, 2008
- 9 Comments
Oh dear, oh dear. I’m surprised the description doesn’t mention that your signal is being accelerated by being bathed in snake oil. It lowers my estimation of the human race’s worth when anyone can actually be foolish enough — or simply rich enough — to buy something like this.
Ultra-high-end solutions like this are regularly mocked. Audiophiles can’t tell you the difference between a coat hanger and outrageously expensive cabling. Preying on the credulous is not a new business strategy, when you take the signal quality ploy and attempt to apply it to a non-analog source, alleging noticeable lossiness in a digital signal over 5 feet of wire, you’re more than a con man — you’re a goddamn comedian.
AtariJedi (Who am I?)
3 months ago
The only reason I would buy more expensive than norm cables is if I needed them to last a long time.
whiskey (Who am I?)
3 months ago
You see there is an unexploited niche market here… Why not Swarowsky encrusted Cat5 cables… or maybe Hello Kitty themed?
This is like “Pay us to demonstrate you are dumb”.
I recently installed a 42 meters (139 feet 9.54 inches approx.) long cat5 cable, and you know what? Response times are the same as being right next to the router… Given the fact that they used 30 cents per meter (say 10 cents a foot approx.) made no difference in quality.
zippy (Who am I?)
3 months ago
I’ll bet whoever buys one of those cables would also be interested in my new 100% quantum compression system. All data is superimposed on one Q-bit. Unfortunately decompression is still theoretical.
Richard Kacerek (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Simply genious.
Will you find 10 people in the crowd who will buy it for $50 one one idiot who will pay $500 hahaha.
KirkH (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Directional markings? It must be optimized for UDP.
I actually like seeing this stuff. People profoundly stupid enough to but that thing should be parted with their money as fast as possible… For the sake of Humanity.
Martin (Who am I?)
3 months ago
You see, there is a little secret that I think people are missing out on. Generally, over CAT5 you are using TCP/IP. If that is they case, it has multiple levels of checksumming built in. IF and I stress the IF something goes wrong during packet transmission the packet will just get sent again… and again until it gets there safe and sound. This happens on 0.5$ cable and on 500$ cable just the same. Granted it may not be entirely true on UDP however this is assuming there actually is a difference in the cables. Which I am sure there isn’t.
DALLAS DOC (Who am I?)
3 months ago
wow the sound was very clean and distortion free after i replaced mine with this. The Ether glow was very warm too…i had to bump up my AC to handle the increase. The extra packets which were arriving made a lot of difference to spare some for my friends who i immediately e-mailed. i am replacing all my cables with these and i buy them for cheap from amazon for $500 each..its totally worth it ..the sound quality difference is unbelievable. i am saving $$ on my hearing aid batteries too..
DALLAS DOC (Who am I?)
3 months ago
wow the sound was very clean and distortion free after i replaced mine with this. The Ether glow was very warm too…i had to bump up my AC to handle the increase. The extra packets which were arriving made a lot of difference to spare some for my friends who i immediately e-mailed. i am replacing all my cables with these and i buy them for cheap from amazon for $500 each..its totally worth it ..the sound quality difference is unbelievable. i am saving $$ on my hearing aid batteries too..
Frederik Schack (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Sadly I know a person who would buy this cable… Same person believes that a coaxial S/PDIF must be of pure silver…. duh