Best buy had an AudioQuest HDMI cable on their site tuesday that was obscenely expensive. Of the 15-ish customer reviews only 2 had any real feedback, all of which shared the same basic principal: why the hell would you spend upwards of $1700 on an HDMI cable? Reading them was quite entertaining. Knowing my copywritng co-worker would get a kick out of this i sent it along and yep, he threw up his own review. It was so funny I was near tears but sadly Best Buy took the whole page down – product and all – mere hours later. Boo!

So I decided to post it here because it deserves to be heard. Too bad Google’s cached version of the page doesn’t have all the reviews because they were also worth saving.

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I will agree that, I too, balked at the seemingly high price of what I now consider the most useful cable I have ever purchased.

It all started with the delivery driver, whose truck had broke down in front of my house. I used this “miracle cable” to replace his timing belt and we drove together to his company service facility.

Once I regained ownership… although who can own such a divine, obviously self-aware, cable… I hitched a ride back home, using the cable to perform old cowboy rope tricks alongside the highway as a way to engage someone enough to pull over. The cable once again came into to use when I had to defend myself from the driver.

“This things is handy,” I said to myself (and then to the cable, which requires near constant admiration to be able to manifest itself in the past…oh yeah, this cable is obviously from the hyper-economically-inflated future.. duh).

When I made my way home I was all set to hook up my “hi-def” rig. Turns out that someone had broken in and stole my home theater gear. Gosh.

“What a day,” I said to myself (and then to the cable, who likes to be included in conversations).

So, tired from such a crazy/miraculous day, I decided to take the cable out to a romantic dinner at Applebee’s. Even though we were asked to leave (the cable has a real problem with a lack of iced tea refills), it was easily the most natural, rewarding date ever.

That was over 60 years ago and my beloved wife, the AudioQuest 26.3” HDMI Cable- White, is long gone. I will cherish our time together and feel the warm digital love that we shared every single day when I gaze into the eyes of our horribly mutated, cable/human grandchildren