Win $1m if your Golden Ears can pick the $7k speaker cable

Audiophile Realist -- Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:29

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/calling-bs-snake-oil-cables

Anyone want a million dollars?

samuel33 -- Thu, 10/04/2007 - 19:24

Positive feedback have lost it's credibility... as Tas and every e-magazine....

I will respect TAS (or others) when they will criticize a product of a company that advertize in their magazine....
Or maybe reviewers are too busy to sell the Nordost speakers cables that they have stollen :lol:

Right Jvalin ?

You really take people for idiot.

EasyBigFella -- Wed, 10/10/2007 - 18:57

I am a firm believer that cables make a difference. However, I was a little disturbed that MIT's $25,000 speaker cables won a Golden Ear Award. Speaker cables. Twenty. Five. Thousand. Dollars. I know a stand-mounted little gem of a loudspeaker that everyone is raving about that costs $25k. I thought those Tara Labs cables were already the outer reaches of madness. I don't care how good they sound. Not for a cable that carries electrical current between two components. How can you justify or advocate spending $25k on cables when state-of-the-art loudspeakers and components can be had for the same price? I know that price/performance tapers off dramatically over a certain point, but at this level of the stratosphere you just have to wonder how poorly you are spending your money.

LRF (not verified) -- Sat, 02/07/2009 - 15:25

FYI:
I invite you to visit Kleeacoustics.com.
L.R. Forbes

JWT (not verified) -- Sun, 02/08/2009 - 05:06

Why do U invite us to Kleeacoustics mr. shill ? WBT's on $1500 speaker cables. Those terminations are absolute junk. Expensive junk, but junk none the less.

The Signal Coll... -- Thu, 08/21/2008 - 12:56

Sorry to tell you, but the Amazing Randi backed down when Michael Fremer stepped up. It began to appear as if he would lose his million ... which makes me think that his offer was also just a well constructed illusion. By hanging out a million dollars that he never really intends to pay, Randi enjoys the comfort of being a curmudgeonly skeptic with the added credibility of appearing to risk $1 million ... right?

Instant "consumer advocate," but not really. He's a showman, an entertainer, not beholden to the public trust. His risk, like his expertise, is a well constructed illusion.

The Signal Collection, LLC
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of Connoisseur-Grade Hi-Fi

Tom Martin -- Sun, 02/08/2009 - 10:14

The original link to the details of the $1M challenge now appears to be dead. If anyone knows of a new URL, could you post it?

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