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The $10,000 ethernet cable is the perfect accessory for your $10k desk. Bonus: Cable is not made by Apple, Beats or Monster.

Got £6,899 (US$10,500) to spare and worried that a Cat-6 Ethernet cable is keeping you from hearing the very best of your NAS-stored collection of MP3s? Fear not, your moment has come, with this work of wonder from Audio Quest. “This really is a 'money no object' cable for the dedicated Hi-Fi enthusiast that has extended into a world of digital audio sources,” the puffery continues.
 
Things like this used to anger me, but these days, I hope as many idiots as possible buy it. They deserve to lose that money and quite obviously had no need for it if this is how they wanted to spend it.
 
Things like this used to anger me, but these days, I hope as many idiots as possible buy it. They deserve to lose that money and quite obviously had no need for it if this is how they wanted to spend it.

In other words, you hate being one of us poor and lower beings?
 
The level of stupid that you would have to be to buy this is simply astounding. As astounding as that $9,990 markup on this cable.
 
Things like this used to anger me, but these days, I hope as many idiots as possible buy it. They deserve to lose that money and quite obviously had no need for it if this is how they wanted to spend it.

nah, the $10k cord never angered me, it was always the $70 HDMI cable at Best Buy because that is the only store that carries them and they decide to carry the Monster brand because... PROFIT, and me weighing the options of driving another 1.5 hours round trip to a Fry's just to get one for $10 or less.
 
This raises so... many... questions.

Looks like another cable by these guys is at least a cat7 cable. I really want someone to throw one of these on a Fluke cable tester and see if they're any different than any other cat 7 cable. (or if they actually meet the cat7 standard at all.)

If you want some of these cables, or some other reasonably priced cables from these guys, search on amazon for audioquest ethernet and they'll show up. The diamond cable is only $1200!

Nice braiding on them, though.
 
"Pay close attention to how you plug in the “ultra-performance RJ45 connector made from silver”, because these are directional Ethernet cables (apparently in ignorance that in the digital sphere, frames travel both way on the cables)."

My HDMI cable is directional. Internally amplified so it has a source side and a destination side.
 
I get this product is made just for the purpose of the super rich to spend money without knowledge on the topic....

But I would love to talk to the makers of this cable to explain how it really works in their mind. Pure silver contacts in the cable, that connect to copper at the switch/NIC.

Got a good laugh that MP3 was mentioned in the article given the topic.
 
High-quality MP3 files require lower latency, obviously, that only silver is able to transfer from the source fast enough due to the smooth and lux surface. And everyone knows that 1s and 0s need a specific type of electrostatic resistance to keep them from leaking out into the aether like normal plastic. If all ethernet cables were made like this we wouldn't need QoS to prevent packets from dropping.
 
I get this product is made just for the purpose of the super rich to spend money without knowledge on the topic....

But I would love to talk to the makers of this cable to explain how it really works in their mind. Pure silver contacts in the cable, that connect to copper at the switch/NIC.

Got a good laugh that MP3 was mentioned in the article given the topic.

The contacts in the switch are only a cm long. They can be shit and it won't matter. Where quality matters is when you're running 300 ft. of cable and have to deal with lots of capacitance and resistance, as well as a lot of surface area for signal noise to get dropped on the line.
 
“This really is a 'money no object' cable for the dedicated Hi-Fi enthusiast that has extended into a world of digital audio sources,”

Maybe I should highlight the word digital? Digital transmission usually involves error checking to begin with (and I think these would be packets...). Furthermore, the signal being sent is digital, so it requires a DAC anyway, which is where most of the prob--

Oh hell I give up. Nope, just... nope. I think their entire purpose with this type of crap is to try to take some of the money that the very upper crust have. Like the people living in several million dollar homes with so much money they literally can't figure out what to do with it. And it trickles down to whoever made this cable, to the tune of some 9980$ profit.They're targeting people with so much money that 10000$ is equivalent to 10$. They're just getting things that fit their 10$.

I mean it's not a bad idea, maybe more people should saturate the market with this type of crap. Give them some competition, so now people will compete to see who has the lowe-- err higher price. I mean you can't hate either party. The rich people are just spending 10$ and the poor people are ripping them off for easy money. The transaction doesn't hurt either party. I mean no one in their right mind that's in the upper middle class would even consider this, right?

Right?


In other words, you hate being one of us poor and lower beings?

Depends on how much you value money and willful ignorance as a pair. We have enough of the latter to go around regardless of social class anyhow.
 
lol...if I made cables I'd put out a product like this just to see if someone buys one by accident or some oil Sheik needs 100 for his palace. why not? it costs the manufacturer almost nothing to make a 'special' run of cables and it pays for itself even if you sell one at 1% of the retail price!!

at any rate, like sfsuphysics said, its the overpriced monster cable at BB that is the problem. its 10 times too expensive but its inexpensive enough to convince someone they need it when they are spending $900 on a 70 inch TV. dont forget the $150 wall mount too (you know, the one that is made out of $15 worth of materials).
 
This is Idiocracy level pricing.

10 BILLION DOLLARS FOR A <randy savage voice> SUPER BIG ASS FRIES </randy savage voice>
 
Considering Ethernet is a layer 1 physical and signal standard, I was really hoping this was actually like a shielded/grounded long haul cable or something but...

The site's down, and what you can find at Amazon is worth it for the comments. It's a freaking Cat6 UTP cable. Plus, mp3s? If you're worried about the audio quality of a lossy file format, punch yourself. Repeatedly.
 
I really want someone to throw one of these on a Fluke cable tester and see if they're any different than any other cat 7 cable. (or if they actually meet the cat7 standard at all.)

Such a device would, at a minimum, require a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in order to have the necessary magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance to accurately test this cable.
 
Not that I need to contribute to this but I have spare time so why not.

The price is ridiculous.

"The insulation generates an electrostatic field &#8220;which reduces energy storage..."
Maybe they are confused about the triboelectric effect and where it's of concern. You find this in medical equipment and super high end audio instrumentation.

&#8220;Solid 100% Silver Perfect Surface conductors...ultra-smooth surface...&#8221;
Silver is generally not recommended for this type of connector. This technical paper goes over the pros and cons nicely.
http://www.te.com/documentation/whitepapers/pdf/Ag_use_connectors_503-1016.pdf
Fields concentrate at points and irregularities so the smooth surface finish might sound like a good thing but the difference won't be detectable.
 
A $10k desk would probably look really nice. A $10k cable is a scam.
The 10k desk is a reference to something on these very forums approximately 15 years ago in the General Mayhem section of the forum. Older members can clarify better than I can.

In simplest terms, some guy (LanTech?) posted a picture of a desk he claimed to make himself with 10k. From the few remaining pics in existence (due to great forum crash of 2004), the desk looked like utter shit that a carpenter could have made for pennies in under an hour.
 
I struggle with these things. I'm a self proclaimed audiophile, I have expensive cables in the $1,000 range granted I got them for much less on the used market. I can hear some subtleties between the cheap and high end cables but it's not game changing. When we are talking about equipment, the differences I hear are vast although that doesn't mean high price = high quality. It just means that all equipment does sound different. Nothing beats the sweet sound of a class "a" amplifier but they require archaic parts and the market is niche so they are necessarily expensive.

All that said; I'm embarrassed for my hobby when I see an cable manufacture sell something this absurd. Seriously what the hell do you get from a high end ethernet cable? I've played around with some different USB cables a long time ago and could hear differences but that was before DAC's would reclock the signal, it's pretty much moot at this point.
 
I bet there's a Saudi prince who's entire home is cabled with these so he can play on his gold plated PS4.
 
this is gonna make streaming my MP3s and outputting through my onboard sound so much better!
 
I struggle with these things. I'm a self proclaimed audiophile, I have expensive cables in the $1,000 range granted I got them for much less on the used market. I can hear some subtleties between the cheap and high end cables but it's not game changing. When we are talking about equipment, the differences I hear are vast although that doesn't mean high price = high quality. It just means that all equipment does sound different. Nothing beats the sweet sound of a class "a" amplifier but they require archaic parts and the market is niche so they are necessarily expensive.

All that said; I'm embarrassed for my hobby when I see an cable manufacture sell something this absurd. Seriously what the hell do you get from a high end ethernet cable? I've played around with some different USB cables a long time ago and could hear differences but that was before DAC's would reclock the signal, it's pretty much moot at this point.

B.S.! There's NO WAY you're hearing a difference between your "$1000" cable and something cheaper, unless you literally mean something so cheap that it literally can barely carry a signal. And then you'd get just as good of an experience with a $10 cable vs. your $1000 one.

I hope you're trolling. If not, please enlighten us with the brand/model of you $1000 super-cables that actually make a difference??
 
Expensive digital cables make me laugh so hard. Now I have spent some money on expensive analog cables. I'm about to order some True 10g speaker wire for my theater (blue jeans cable). Now that everything is moving digital they have to make there money making up what ever they can for people to buy there stuff. All these companies that sold snake oil all these years have to compete with Monoprice and amazon now and there losing bad.
 
Guys just head over amazon search audioquest diamond and read some of the reviews ... pure gold comedy
 
nah, the $10k cord never angered me, it was always the $70 HDMI cable at Best Buy because that is the only store that carries them and they decide to carry the Monster brand because... PROFIT, and me weighing the options of driving another 1.5 hours round trip to a Fry's just to get one for $10 or less.

WTH...monoprice ships...even to me in Mississippi
 
nah, the $10k cord never angered me, it was always the $70 HDMI cable at Best Buy because that is the only store that carries them and they decide to carry the Monster brand because... PROFIT, and me weighing the options of driving another 1.5 hours round trip to a Fry's just to get one for $10 or less.

Heh, you could have had the $179.00 AudioQuest cable in the Magnolia Theater room! I was after a HDMI cable and that was the only one they had in stock. I just started laughing at the young person that was trying to sell to me. Went home and ordered 2 HDMI cables from Newegg, $12.95 shipped! They arrived in 2 days and have been working great ever since.
 
Listen you damn peasant 99%ers, you may tell me that its just 1s and 0s and they either make the journey over the cable or they don't, but when you're a true networkphile such as myself then you will insist that those 1s and 0s don't just GET to their destination, but that they get there in style.

And that's what makes the difference from a peasants "getting from point A to point B" utilitarian viewpoint, and a more heightened attention to the journey where luxury matters.
 
That cable better include a high class clean hooker who will do me all night long and well into the morning otherwise it isn't worth the price.
 
nah, the $10k cord never angered me, it was always the $70 HDMI cable at Best Buy because that is the only store that carries them and they decide to carry the Monster brand because... PROFIT, and me weighing the options of driving another 1.5 hours round trip to a Fry's just to get one for $10 or less.

how about that amazon essentials hdmi cable for less than 10 bucks that even saves driving anywhere? the amazon essentials line of stuff is great value.
 
I struggle with these things. I'm a self proclaimed audiophile, I have expensive cables in the $1,000 range granted I got them for much less on the used market. I can hear some subtleties between the cheap and high end cables but it's not game changing. When we are talking about equipment, the differences I hear are vast although that doesn't mean high price = high quality. It just means that all equipment does sound different. Nothing beats the sweet sound of a class "a" amplifier but they require archaic parts and the market is niche so they are necessarily expensive.

All that said; I'm embarrassed for my hobby when I see an cable manufacture sell something this absurd. Seriously what the hell do you get from a high end ethernet cable? I've played around with some different USB cables a long time ago and could hear differences but that was before DAC's would reclock the signal, it's pretty much moot at this point.

go to randi.org and prove that you can hear a difference in a scientific setting (that is a double blind test with a statistically significant success rate or in other words "significantly higher than guessing randomly"). you will get a million dollars for that. actually, it used to be an award for demonstrations of supernatural abilities, but a couple of years ago james randi extended it to audiophile cables because it's equally esoteric crap. one million dollars, dude. everyone knows at least ten people that know someone who knows someone with a supernatural ability, but that jackpot is still unclaimed. i wonder why... and while you're at it, google "confirmation bias".
 
funny pure copper would be better silver is to hard / higher resistance than gold, copper and aluminum...
then again if you are sending sound why would you use a mp3 as the test format?
seriously get a mostly lossy or lossless format like mp4, acc, flack or such or even a wav file or raw sine waves and send them over fiber you will likely never notice any signal loss...
 
It's a great product for the people that bought the "I am rich" app in the Apple App Store back in the day.
 
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