Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Calling Bullshit: James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker Cables Are Better
Gizmodo: "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.'"
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I could find cables that are better than both monster and the Pear cables for so much less money. The prices of these cables are obsurd and are just too much. Who really wants to pay over $7000 for 12 feet of audio cables? A Big waste of money.
Copper is copper, as long as you have enough (for the current flowing). Speaker cables, carrying (comparatively) high current, don't need shielding, and the capacitance and skin effect and other things usually brought up in complaints about wire usually only have significant effects in radio frequencies, certainly not within the 20-20k range. A slightly lower resistance means slightly more volume, but the wire resistance is at least an order of magnitude (usually two or three) less than the speaker's impedance.
For those who can't manage to not have their speaker cables in a bundle with power cables, maybe I can understand shielding, but 7000 dollars for two 12 foot cables is ridiculous.
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