James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all

Remember, skeptics are never satisfied with results as long as their worldview is violated. Most would rather deny the results than change their worldview.

Which makes them exactly the same as the audiophile beievers on the other side of this debate.

Douglas_schroeder: >>>"Remember, skeptics are never satisfied with results as long as their world view is violated. Most would rather deny the results than change their world view."<<<

How funny! That's been the "believer's" angle towards just about any kind of legitimate (scientific) verification or testing methods (proof)!

Even if I took that test myself and heard a huge difference between those cables, I still couldn't bring myself to spend $7500 or some other exorbitant amount of money for a couple of pairs of wires, I'd feel like a fool, even if I did think the expensive wires sounded better. I'd probably try make wires just like them myself. Maybe I'm more of a cheapskate than a skeptic ;-).

Metro04, do assume that DBTs or beyond scientific criticism. Many would claim that an invalid measure as most commonly used, namely 30 second exposures and that setting the testing hypothesis as no difference violates the logic that one cannot accept an hypothesis, but one can reject an hypothesis. This is the reason we normally seek a "null hypothesis" that a variable thought to be causing a relationship has no effect. Rejecting it then lends support for the relationship you wish to support.