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Default Harmonic Technology Photon amp interconnects

What do you think of these, clever idea - 'best cable is no cable' and all that.
At first i thought they were using optical/toslink but it is converting the electrons to photons and back again.

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Good review

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue38/ht_photon.htm

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Wow, no interest at all, doesnt surprise me as with these IC you cant argue about your 99.999997% pure super silver coated hyper smooth cryo wanked strands.
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With the 4-figure price for a pair, you'll have to argue hard about your amazing optical technology wanked ICs instead.
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What do you think of these, clever idea - 'best cable is no cable' and all that.
At first i thought they were using optical/toslink but it is converting the electrons to photons and back again.
And in the process of converting the electrons to photons and back again, they hideously distort the signal, prompting John Atkinson of Stereophile to write in the measurements section of their review, "If this review were of a conventional product, I would dismiss it as being broken."

So for your $2,000, you get a cable that distorts the signal worse than a cheap boom box would.

That's certainly something to brag about.

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Wow, no interest at all, doesnt surprise me as with these IC you cant argue about your 99.999997% pure super silver coated hyper smooth cryo wanked strands.
You wouldn't have to.

Interconnects made out of steel bailing wire wouldn't distort the signal as bad as the Harmonic Technology Photon cables.

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