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In Reply to: RE: His Amazing Randiness posted by geoffkait on February 21, 2015 at 11:08:20
Lets say you have two familiar sets of speaker cables, and have listened to both extensively between the same familiar amplifier and speakers.
Each cable has measurably different L, C, and R properties, and a different (however slight) measured effect on the frequency response of your speakers -- maybe half a decibel difference above 14kHz.
If your ears are naturally sharp enough, and you are experienced in critical listing, you can certainly train them to hear this small difference consistently and repeatedly, and feel confident about doing so in a double blind test, at least in YOUR room and on YOUR equipment. Nothing paranormal here.
But if you framed the issue this way, Mr. Randi (or any other wise gambler) would probably be reluctant to bet much money on proving you wrong.
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Under normal circumstances at home with no pressures exerted on you by folks trying to prevent you from winning one million dollars and trying to make a fool out of you at the same time I would agree with you. Do you honestly think the whole Amazing Randi Thing, the Million Dollar Challenge, was on the level? No need to answer, it's a rhetorical question. And of course there is nothing paranormal about what audiophiles do. That's kind of the whole point. Randi had his way with gullible audiophiles who were naive enough to believe their listening skills were actually going to be tested.
Even if it were on the level, as a professional magician Randi would know how easy it is to rig demonstrations and "tests" that appear to be on the level, but are not.
But only a million dollars at play? Loose change, not much at play compared to some scientific experiments that involve billions.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
So, you think Randi was on the level? Hmmm...interesting. You poo poo a million dollar prize? Again, interesting... Comparing Randi's $1 M prize to a billion dollar Government Experiment or Government Project seems a little, uh, what's the word? Do you think Randi's made of money? Lol
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I can think of at least two ways that billions of dollars are being scammed by scam artists. Hint: it ain't in Audio. And at least one way that trillions are being scammed.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Not sure what all that has to do with the topic under discussion. As titillating as it might be.
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