Another story about multi-thousand dollar audio cables...

[Tempe 10+ year member]

Calling Bullshit: James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Cables Are Better

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[twisztdauthorit 10+ year member]

who the hell would pay that much for a 12' cable of any kind?

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

things like this just make me feel better about the money i've wasted in my life

 

[DDeitz 10+ year member]

will those make my sony explodes sound better?

 

[hollowpoint 10+ year member]

wow thats umm rediculous...basically a very nice system vs 12ft of cable....I think we know who the winner is

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

they are worth every cent of that price tag. james randi is a moron...

 

[spoonraker 10+ year member]

So what exactly are the Pear cables supposed to actually do that warrants that kind of a pricetag?

They have some new "geometry" that is a hybrid of existing designs from what I've read. Making them less prone to interference and the skin-effect.

Well I don't know about cable geometry, but I do know that the skin-effect has absolutely no effect once you get to a certain strand count, which even the cheapest cables you can buy will greatly exceed, and a good installation will prevent any noise from needing to be shielded in the first place.

 

[Doodaddy 10+ year member]

No one has even passed the preliminaries and there will still be the retards that fuel this myth.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

All that I am going to say on this is that cables make a difference... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

I do not condone buying $7000 cables nor to I condone buying monster. But cables do make a difference...

 

[ST33M 10+ year member]

I remember awhile back, say 92 or later. Richard clark I think, conducted an experiment with home audio and expensive cables compared to cheap.

He setup two different rooms, one witht he cheap stuff and one with the expensive stuff. Both setups used the exact same equipment in the exact same posistions, only cables different.

He had 10 top home audio guys come and listen to each setup and out of the 10, 2 noticed a slight difference. So slight they gave the cheap one a rateing of 8 over the 9 they gave the expensive. Cables may make a slight difference in car audio with shielding and so on, but not to the point you need to spend a massive amount on your cables.

 

[opfreak 10+ year member]

cables do matter. Theres junk cables. and good cables. Then there is wishfull thinking.

And the difference between junk and good is not price alone.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Wishful thinking indeed...

I think that some audiophiles start to loose their minds after a while. I don't think they even love music anymore...

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

i am all for buying good cables, because the really cheap ones do ****. but nobody can justify 7G's for some wire.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Indeed...

Pat hit the nail on the head...

 

[Doodaddy 10+ year member]

I assuming all spoke of shielded cables //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif (almost RCA is).