Tirate un cable a tierra

Para cambiar un poco el clima.

La empresa Denon puso a la venta en Amazon un cable de audio digital. El precio, una bicoca, u$s 500.99.- (si, no es un error, quinientos verdes). Para hacer lo mismo que hace cualquier cable de ethernet UTP o STP de u$s 10.-

Los reviews en Amazon son de lo mas gracioso que leí ultimamente. Algunas muestras :

---

If I could use a rusty boxcutter to carve a new orifice in my body that's compatible with this link cable, I would already be doing it. I can just imagine the pure musical goodness that would flow through this cable into the wound and fill me completely -- like white, holy light. Holding this cable in my hands actually makes me feel that much closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. I only make $6.25/hr at Jack In The Box, but I saved up for three months so I could have this cable. It sits in a shrine I constructed next to my futon in Mother's basement. I only gave it four stars in my review because I can't find music that is worthy enough to flow through this utterly perfect interconnect.

---

The Denon AKDL1 cables increase polarized hyperbaric ethernet throughput to over 70 petabytes/second. This cable is the first in a series of nano-molecular para-polarized transparent aluminum cabling, soon to be standard in all Denon audiophile equipment. Since carefully installing the Denon cables using the provided surgical gloves, my system has stablized in Hilbert space. Apparently the Denon AKDL1 performs polarized nanoscale quantum tunneling by using a custom transparent aluminum cable matrix to push parameterized vorgon particles through a dark fibre phase variant Heisenberg compensator. How they accomplish this for only $500, I don't know.

---

This is a truly amazing cable. I had to borrow a engineer friend's oscilloscope to believe it, but the signals propagate down this cable near the speed of light. When used with a set of Pear Anjou speaker cables, you can kiss those annoying audio/video sync problems when viewing Blu-Ray movies in your home theater goodbye!My friend pointed out that the secret is in the blue dots on the cable, not the cable itself. Apparently, this is a metallic pigment which helps negate the resistive losses in the cable; resistive losses are why you need bigger wires in the higher amp circuits in your house. The dots add capacitive coupling in key spots. I couldn't quite follow the math he was getting at, but apparently it's the same technique used in those cell phone signal booster stickers.Nonetheless, I spent an evening carefully painting 1/16" stripes on one of my existing ethernet cables, spaced 3/4" apart, using metallic paint (Testors Green Metal Flake #1530 works well). I let it dry overnight and, sure enough, this formerly ordinary cable was now transmitting at near the speed of light, too! The home grown technique does take a bit of time, so it's not for everyone. But for me, $5 cable + $2 paint + 4 hours of time adds up to a lot less than $500.