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AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by joshvm »

yk wrote: post #32

"Silver plated plugs" Can someone remind me of the electric properties of Silveroxide? ( Or do I need to hire someone who polishes the plugs before each track?)

That stuck out like a sore thumb for me - it's a £6000 cable and the connectors aren't gold plated? Perhaps that's reserved for a model up..

Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by kalleboo »

buro9 wrote: post #11

Great, I've been looking for an ethernet cable, I recently purchased a subwoofer cable for only £9,049 ( http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/product/8401/audioquest-w... ) and I was worried that I wasn't getting the best out of the sound as the cables earlier in the system weren't at this quality. Edit: just found a £2,199 mp3 player: http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/product/8288/astell-amp-k...

With all those high-quality components, make sure you have an $8,000 power cable to match http://www.coconut-audio.com/propower32mm.html

Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by ArekDymalski »

mathieuh wrote: post #21
sanoli wrote: post #17

You know the price is wrong when there's a "Fiance Available" on the sale page of an ethernet cable :-)

I think buying one of these things would surely reduce the availability of fiancé(e)s.

It will reduce the availability of certain type of fiancé(e)s, but attract the other type.

Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by heleph »

bsaul wrote: post #28

I onced interviewed for a job at a software company developping virtual instruments plug-ins. At some point in the interview, the guy told me this great story : "We made some test once, and we changed the skin of the software, to a new color. Every people said the software sounded better with that new skin. Yet we changed absolutely nothing except the color." I'm still wondering if some graphical configuration ( such…

We find whenever we significantly change the look of our website or our emails, conversion goes up significantly for a couple of weeks and then most the time goes back to the normal levels.

I think a difference just stimulates the brain, along the same lines of why supermarkets infuriatingly keep moving the products around so you can't just auto-pilot your shop.

Re: AudioQuest Diamond RJ/E Ethernet Cable: £6899

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Post by DanBC »

surreal wrote: post #6

Without commenting on whether the product is worth the price (I don't know enough about HiFi quality): There is a bell curve of purchasing mentality - from a minority who buy solely based on what's cheapest, through varying degrees of cost/benefit tradeoff, through to a minority who will tend toward whatever is most expensive. It often pays to offer something to that latter group.

I don't mindthat people make, sell, or buy these stupid cables.

My problem is with the dishonesty that often comes with it. There are some companies that are not crooks but mostly it feels like an area full of scams.

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