James Randi vs. Anjou Pear - once and for all

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!

There is no blind test necessary. Loud discordant distortion is easy to verify. That is because the ones I have tried followed a pattern.

I suspect that Muralman's approach dominates the conventional way of hooking up ;-)

Hi Shadorne, you just have to hear what I got. When I was using big expensive conventional amps, dielectric noise must have been there, only I could not hear it. That is because all conventional amps I have ever heard contribute too much noise themselves for any finer distortion to get through.

BTW It's not just me that have found naked wires do best. Speltz's magnet wire has quite the following.