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The most expensive speaker cables in the world may, in fact, be a total waste of money. Pear Cable Corporation has just released their new ANJOU Speaker Cable, a 12 foot length of which retails for $7,250. Pear reports that these cables allow new levels of sonic accuracy to be explored. Supposedly, this exploration is accomplished by proprietary hybrid geometry, ultra low electrical reactance and fully annealed 99.999% pure oxygen free Copper.
In response to a glowing review by Dave Clark, editor of Positive Feedback, in which he refers to the cables as very danceable, the James Randi Educational Foundation has offered a million-dollar prize to anyone who can prove beyond the shadow of doubt that the most expensive speaker cables actually perform better (to the human ear, mind you) than Monster Cable’s $80 HDMI cables.
While the prize is available to anyone who can prove the superiority of the ANJOU cables, the JREF unabashedly directs this challenge at Mr. Clark himself. In fact, the JREF apparently has many such unclaimed prizes for audiophiles who can prove that certain exotic piece of audio equipment are actually as exceptional as they claim.
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There’s one much more expensive cables, it’s called “Odin”, manufactured by Nordost.
http://www.avbuzz.com/bbs/av-cafe/av-cafe-thread-84522.html
It cost you about $£9,995.00/per pair meters cable.
in b4 anti-audiophiles post.
what bout dat o.ooo1 % after the nines? hmmm…
WAIT. me and a friend decided to test this and other cables. (don't worry we didn't buy them) we went to an audiophile type store, and asked to test diffrent areas of conductuvity in each cable. we also tried normal speaker wire and such. the end result was that two coat hangers unbent
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The editor knows nothing about this market, if he calls these cables “the most expensive” than what did I listen last week?? was costing around $40000 per pair 5ft. I think I was dreaming…
sorry editor, the life is not that much easy. you have to digg more…
John, look up the MIT Oracle MA-X BiWire Speaker Cables. How’s $38,000 for an 8ft. pair? I think those are what you wee referring to.
Those Pair cables are HARDLY the most expensive! That’s AVERAGE to the high-end audiophile, Jeremy!
An updated version of this article (circa 2008) can be seen at http://most-expensive.net/audio-cables