James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all

Leica Man,
I envy your articulatory satire skills; however, you missed the whole point of my comments. To me it's a waste hard earned money investing in cable which have subtleties beyond my range of hearing. Personally I would rather spend my money on equipment which have auditory improvements that I and everyone else can easily notice and enjoy.

So this is heating up. Apparently Stereophile's Mickey Fremer picked up the gauntlet J. Randi threw down. That is, assuming they can agree on the ground rules.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bullshit/updated-journalist-accepts-1-million-challenge-do-7250-cables-sound-better-or-not-311034.php?retitled

Nice try Redwoodgarden- in my original blog to this thread I pointed out how Mr. Randi (Mr. Flat Earth’s) "challenge" is stacked against anyone who would challenge his basic premise that all cables sound pretty much alike when I wrote the following:

>>> “why is Mr. Flat Earth not allowing the challenger (the person defending the fact cables make a difference) to select the high end cable of his or her choice to pit against the Monster Cable?”<<<

I then acknowledged many cables are in fact hype and not worth their asking price. This plays to my point that the person defending the value of high(er) end cables should be able to select a cable of their choice to go up against “The Monster” due in large part to the fact most cables are not worth their asking price.

>>> “SO if cables DO NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE then it should not matter which high end (expensive) cable challenges the Monster Cable and the choice of which cable takes on the Monster should be in the hands (and ears) of the challenger; and not a "ringer cable" selected by a person looking to prove ALL HIGH CABLES ARE JIVE; who will then take his "challenge results" to smear the real high end cable players whose cables do make a huge difference.”<<<

You chime in with all cables are a rip off:
>>> “Or yet another dollar in the pocket of scammers...”<<<

Why do people who purport all cables to sound alike or at best only slightly different have a problem with someone wanting to select a different cable to go up against “The MONSTER?” Moreover, why do they have a problem conducting the listening test in the system the listener wearing the blindfold is familiar with? After all, if all cables sound alike or too close to discern real differences why would the listening room, electronics, and challenge cable matter since they know ALL CABLES SOUND ALIKE?

Giving people who don’t understand the true value of high resolution cables the benefit of the doubt one can only conclude these people do not have carefully set up systems or perhaps they have only tried overpriced mass market cables and are assuming their limited sample group is representative of all cables- an inductive argument at best. After all if you have only seen ten dogs in your life and all were brown, you could conclude, “all dog’s are brown.” But to berate others who have seen red, yellow, or black dogs as insane or suggest the sun was in their eyes and therefore they should not trust what they saw is absurd. While trying to prove this point by preventing the person who lives in a neighborhood with dogs of different colors from presenting dogs in their neighborhood as proof only shows the frailty of their argument.

LM

I've never seen someone get so upset about trying to rationalize wasting so much money on something that make so little difference.

I am not upset but you have no idea how much a cable can contribute to the sound of a system. Switching to Synergistic Research Tesla cables was easily the single biggest and most clearly audible improvement I have ever made to a system. Comparatively speaking it was also one of the most cost effective improvements I have ever made.

You simply do not know what you are talking about and so you fall back on the argumentum ad hominem with nothing of substance to back up your claims.

LM