James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all

This thread makes no sense. The failure of anyone to accept the Randi challenge shows nothing except the inability to accept the methodology of the test. The fact that both sides think the method determines the result to me at least, means that the method, not whether there are differences among cables is all that is in question. As such, nothing will ever be proven or disproven.

hi brizon:

what evidence do you have that all cables sound the same ? as you know, you can't prove a hypothesis only disprove it. if your hypothesis is that there exists no difference bwteen the sound of cables, you would have to test all combinations of cable. if you tested say, 100 pairs of interconnects and ecah test failed to show that there was a difference between two pair of cable, that would not prove that all cable sounds the same. you hafve made a very unscientific and unsustainable statement.
certainly you are entitlee to your opinion. all i would have to do would be to select two pair of interconnect, a stereo system, several recordings and perform a double blind test and fail to support your hypothesis. i bet i can do that.

And on my system, every cable, regardless of price, will sound no better, and almost all worse than what I have, short thin ribbon SCs. There is no blind test necessary. Loud discordant distortion is easy to verify.

That is because the ones I have tried followed a pattern. The more fancy boxes or insulation the cables are buried in the more the signal suffers.

With simple exceptions, I guess I agree with Brizonbiovizier for the most part.

Muralman, are you planning to market your ribbon SCs, or will you tell us how to make our own?

Drubin,

Do you really think I can sell cables with Saran Wrap, or bubble wrap insulation?

My ribbon SCs are featured at my system page. There are two companies that already sell ribbon connectors, and SCs.

I have monos, which I turned around backwards backing them up to the speaker terminals. That allows for very short SCs. I believe that is very important. My ICs are long. I have no prediction on how a thin ribbon will do over long distances.

What I am saying here is not to make bravado claims for my SCs, but to underline the startling facts I have found about the cable industry. Paul Speltz has already burst the big cable maker's bubble by introducing their Anti-Cable. I just took that idea and tried it with ribbons.

Now, to really go out on a limb.

Only my positive lead is copper. The negative is plain old aluminum foil. The reason for this is on my speakers, the first five feet of the return is aluminum foil. the last foot won't do any more harm than the first five. Being that the charge carried out is going to be grounded, no harm can be done to it anyway.

Try to sell that!