JCat

In hi-fi terms, $349 isn't a lot for a cable. The Pear Anjou loudspeaker cable which James Randy quaked on was $7250 / 12 ft. When we got our present printer from London Drugs, we were amazed at the cost of the USB, however. That printer was the HP LasetJet P1102w.

Now James Randi's opponent, Pear Cable's Adam Blake looks just like a typical young employee at London Drugs.



The HP retailed at $60, which was the reason for our purchase. The Certified Data USB Cables however, which we needed to make it work for us cost an amazing $15/each, and it was another $15 for each 3 ft. USB AA extension. With recycling fees, it felt like we were spending more on a USB cable than we were on the printer - actually I believe we were. Not to include the paper. Moreover, the quality was qualitatively low, so the same day we took a trip over to NCIX, to purchase higher quality product, for less. It's nice to have a nice looking USB cable.

We couldn't fault London Drugs for their pricing model, although we expected them to stock $5 cables and adapters, which was the historical trend in computing. It was always fun to fill laundry tubs full of printer cables (parallel), serial cables, and network cables, which were cheap, traditionally, and to fill closets with graphics cards, backup cards, network cards, and sound cards, which were less cheap, but still sub <$1000/ea.

With near-0 margin on electronics items, however, it's the accessories and warranties market that gets the pushing.

JCat makes a very interesting USB card, which we'd like to review, along with a interesting power supply.



When I was younger, I wrote a program, PapalCat, a disc cataloging software program. That's why we like JCat so much here. Likely, you use a software package like iTunes for your audio cataloging. The more astute of you, use a program like JPlay for the playback.