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I just purchased a pair of Denon AH-D1001 headphones to replace my Sony MDR-7506s. I always found the Sony's to have pretty poor bass response, and at this point, I have loaned them to [Bad username or site: marnanel'/ @ livejournal.com] for use at work. I started poking around on the web looking for reviews of headphones, and I found some pretty cool stuff at this website: http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-application/our-10-best-headphones/

The Denon is second up on the list, and about as much as I can stomach paying for headphones right now.

I am impressed. Well impressed. They sound gorgeous. Crisp clear, and great frequency response. I can hear every little detail in my classical music, and the experience when putting on something with deep basses and high highs like DJ Tiesto - In search of sunrise 7 is just exquisite. I am wrapped in the most voluptuous sound, smooth and rich like melted chocolate and yet subtle and detailed.

I had to go to King of Prussia to get them however, and whilst I was down there, I dropped into BestBuy to get some batteries. I picked up the aforementioned DJ Tiesto album, and a few other bitties, plus a recording of Ravel's Bolero. The recording has Andre Previn conducting, but it neglects to mention which orchestra is playing. If I ever find out, I will know never to buy another recording from that orchestra again. The flautist was simply horrible. The intro was the most flat I've ever heard, and they were out of time in the intro and often in the following tongued section. The clarinettist faired slightly better but was still very flat, and cor anglais was the best and mostly okay. I've played in youth orchestras that could have done a better job. I consoled myself by picking up a recording of it on iTunes by the LSO, which was much better.
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I found this gem: A $500 Ethernet cable, and it's not even long. This is for a digital output on a CD/DVD Player. This is astounding. I guess they assume their customers have not really grasped the concept of digital. Denon think you are a bunch of suckas, and will gladly take your money fool. I for one will never buy a Denon product after seeing this. No really - it's digital. Either the 1s and 0s make it, or they don't. I send data from one side of the globe to the other over a piece of ethernet cable crafted from a piece hewn from a 1000' spool that cost about $50 from black box that I crimped the ends on myself, and it works/worked just fine (at least until I took a chunk of it out with a drill whilst attempting to liberate it from a very small hole in the book case - but that's another story). ALL the 1s and 0s make it. Not most of them, all of them, every last one of billions and billions of 1s and 0s. How do I know, because my binaries work on the other end, because my MD5 sums still add up.

Denon - shame on you. How can we ever trust anything you tell us about your products after this line of pure crap is printed on your website.

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