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$1 million up for grabs

October 1st, 2007

$1 million up for grabs

…if you can prove that $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables are better than ordinary Monster Cables. That’s the total amount of moolah offered by James Randi should any audiophile prove him wrong. Let’s see what Randi has to say about this.

We see that the Pear Cable company is advertising a pair of 12-foot “Anjou” audio cables for $7,250; that’s $302 a foot! And, as expected, “experts” were approached for their opinions on the performance of these wonders … Well, we at the JREF are willing to be shown that these “no-compromise” cables perform better than, say, the equivalent Monster cables. While Pear rattles on about “capacitance,” “inductance,” “skin effect,” “mechanical integrity” and “radio frequency interface,” - all real qualities and concerns, and adored by the hi-fi nut-cases - we naively believe that a product should be judged by its actual performance, not by qualities that can only be perceived by attentive dogs or by hi-tech instrumentation. That said, we offer the JREF million-dollar prize to - for example - Dave Clark, Editor of the audio review publication Positive Feedback Online.

To date, no one has stepped up to Randi’s challenge. I wonder how owners of the Pear Anjou speaker cables are feeling now, knowing that they forked out ridiculous sums for something ordinary. Kinda reminds me of the Emperor’s New Clothes eh.

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