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Some of you may be aware that Denon, a highly respected (and highly expensive) producer of cutting edge audio equipment recently added what is essentially a standard Ethernet cable for connecting audio components, painted blue, to their product line. No big deal? Well, what if they were charging 500 dollars for it?

Yep, that’s what I said too.

Apparently lots of other people are saying similar things as well, and making their, ummm…annoyed amusement known to Amazon shoppers. Here are the top tags for these cables selected by readers on Amazon (How young Harry got in there I have no idea):

It gets better…CrunchGear assembled a list of the best comments that can be printed on a family website that have been logged onto the cable’s Amazon page, the highlights of which appear after the jump…

“A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the ‘directional markings’ on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.”

The first time I downloaded a picture to the printer over this cable, the bits moved so fast the printer collapsed into a naked singularity, right there in my office.”

“Marked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”

“Like a fool, I bought these cables on a whim because of the low price. However, I got what I paid for when I installed them in my TARDIS. Before long it shorted out my chameleon circuit and Amazon refuses to pay for repairs! I guess it’ll be stuck looking like a 1963 police call box until I can somehow get enough money for a replacement.”

“I accidentally dropped one end of my Denon cable into a glass of Tuscan whole milk I was drinking. Later when I finished my milk (yeah, I still drank it; should I not have done that?), my right arm (lost in an accident in 1987) spontaneously grew back.
Is that normal?”

“I used 6 of them to connect up my time machine to my Starship. But now my cell phone won’t work. Must be interference from the planet being out of phase with my blue tooth headset.

Denon is a company with a major league reputation in audio…I just keep trying to figure out what they were thinking. At least the blue makes the cable look really nice.

BTW, my favorite part of the Amazon page for the cable is the discount. Save a buck! Damn, do they still take paypal?

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).