I wouldn't doubt the quality of their recievers based on this admittedly, rediculously overpriced piece of wasteful consumerism. Their recievers have been tested in numerous magazines and other sources and come out legit. You don't get people to even believe you can sell a $500 piece of string unless you actually do sell SOMETHING worth money. Sony makes rootkits, DRM schemes that don't work, and who knows what else they are planning. Does that mean that thier recievers aren't good anymore (the answer is NO by the way).
So the same with Denon. Someone at the company decided that why should Monster Cable have all the idiots who think that a highly over engineered wire with alot of rubber and foil on it transmitts electrons somehow better than a standard UL certified wire from Wally World.
Just do your homework. Read reviews online and home theater magazines. Denon, Onkyo, Sony, they all make quality stuff in the mid to high level range. It depends on the features you want at the price you want to pay.
I didn't say that at all. I know Denon's receivers are good, they just have lost trust with me, and I don't feel like rewarding a company that stoops that low even if they do sell something valuable. There are other options perfectly competitive, hence my asking.
Same reason I try not to buy Sony, but in that case, it's kinda different too, because Sony is such a huge company and the culprit was the BMG division I guess. I've not much problem with the PlayStation brand. Still the Sony brand as a whole has been smeared in my view with all the other BS like proprietary formats and other DRM schemes. They did get hurt by all that, especially when they came soooo late to the MP3 market because they just HAD to do their ATRAC thing. Of course it would catch on. Of course.
In this whole Denon cable tragicomedy there are people who say who cares as long as they too deliver good products. I think they do, but I just don't feel like rewarding them. Personal opinion. It's just an ethical issue for me more than convenience or value, and in this case it's easy to steer away from Denon because of good competition.
By the way, you CAN in fact get people to buy super expensive worthless stuff even if you don't sell anything else worth of value. I like the lower-end $30 Monster cables, but if you look higher up in the snake-oil chain, companies like Transparent and others are pure unadulterated prime snake-oil.
There was just a few days ago
an article by the great Ben Goldacre of the Guardian referencing some interesting studies done. It seemed pretty in time for the Denon thing.
Here's the same article on his website with links. His website is an excellent read for skeptics there's good info on the placebo effect too.
since I will have my Theta Casablanca III HDMI but you need get some amps to do that.