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Folks, hi, Being an electrical engineer by education, and a closet skeptic for a good many years, I've been following the developments of the Randi/Fremer/Pear debacle with great interest, not to mention a good helping of amusement. So I figured it was time to come out of the closet. This may...

It may not be necessary to have supernatural hearing. We have lots of data on the ability to hear pitch and loudness and it is primarily that data that forms the basis of the counter claim that the cables are good enough that nobody should be able to hear a difference. What we don't have as...

Would my ability to hear in 3 dimensions without moving my head qualify for the MDC? I don't believe my hearing is extraordinary. Maybe because I've always had this ability I just assumed it was natural and that everybody had it. But I do recall when I was very young and taking a hearing test at...

I'm not sure if I'm the only one who brought this up, but much as I see the claims of the Pear Audio guys as being a bit... ridiculous... They don't really constitute "paranormal." "Bad science" maybe, but what it comes down to is that these products have an insane amount of sheilding and...

Pear Cable CEO calls James Randi's $1,000,000 Challenge a hoax. IMHO, it's pure "sour grapes" on Adam Blake's part. Not to mention pure "Born-Again Audiophile" excrement. Discuss?

Speaker cables are probably the easiest to manipulate. Just increase R or Z and the dampening of the driver is greatly reduced. I have no particular experience of speaker cables per se, but I have measured headphone cables with R over 1Ω -- would you use that kind of a cable to drive a 4Ω...

Pear Cable CEO Calls James Randi's $1 Million Offer a Hoax A friend of mine is giving a talk on RFI on Monday at the Audio Engineering Conference, I'll ask him about this. Anyway, this was on gizmodo today, and linked from Museum of Hoaxes where I saw it...

I know this probably should be in 'Computers and the Internet', but because of the subject matter, I thought I'd stick it here. James Randi is mentioned on the FARK.com site, about the offer of $1,000,000 conserning the Pear Cable Company offering their audio cables for $7250. The tag paced...