Thank you.
That said, I'd like to believe my audiophile abilities do not merit
speakers priced over Rs 5000. I have a 2.1 Mercury set here that goes
into paranormal spasms moments before each phone call. I'd like a set
that can remain stoic, but a $1000 replacement is unthinkable. What
are my options?
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
On 02-Oct-07, at 2:02 PM, Gautam John wrote:
James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker
Cables Are Better
Our rant about those $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables found its way to
the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), and Randi offered $1
million to anyone who can prove those cables are any better than
ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd
review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables "danceable,"
Randi called it "hilarious and preposterous." He added that if the
cables could do what their makers claimed, "they would be paranormal."
We see that the Pear Cable company is advertising a pair of 12-foot
"Anjou" audio cables for $7,250; that's $302 a foot! And, as expected,
"experts" were approached for their opinions on the performance of
these wonders ... Well, we at the JREF are willing to be shown that
these "no-compromise" cables perform better than, say, the equivalent
Monster cables. While Pear rattles on about "capacitance,"
"inductance," "skin effect," "mechanical integrity" and "radio
frequency interface," - all real qualities and concerns, and adored by
the hi-fi nut-cases - we naively believe that a product should be
judged by its actual performance, not by qualities that can only be
perceived by attentive dogs or by hi-tech instrumentation. That said,
we offer the JREF million-dollar prize to - for example - Dave Clark,
Editor of the audio review publication Positive Feedback Online.
This is not Randi's first clash with audiophile reviewers who claim to
hear differences in various exotic equipment. He promises a million
dollars (which he has waiting in an account for them) if any could
prove in double-blind scientific testing that their extraordinary
claims are true. None have stepped up so far.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bullshit/james-randi-offers-1-
million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-
better-305549.php
