Coolness Lounge #64 – Sick of Pear Cables
Stephen is still recovering from his 102-degree fever, so Charlie tells the tale of his encounter with the Amazing Randi and the $7200 Pear cables.
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Currently, Stephen shares his knowledge with students at Fort Hays State University who are studying media and web development in the Information Networking and Telecommunications department.
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Stephen has a Masters Degree in Communication from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas . As a forward thinker, he wrote his Thesis on how Information Islands and e-commerce would play a major role in keeping smaller communities alive. This of course was when 28.8 dialup was king and people hadn’t even invented the word e-commerce.
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Well, aside from a few very small discrepancies that were mostly semantic, Charlie got the story right. Fremer has not responded further, and I’m sitting waiting… I’m accustomed to this sort of rapid acceptance followed by gradual withdrawl, so I’m not surprised. The challenge is a practical one: can Michael Fremer tell the difference – using his golden ears – between Pear Anjou speaker cables and regular Monster Z2R ML-10/10 cables, as already designated, to a statistically significant degree? Fremer has now nixed the use of the ABX system, so the switch between cables – dictated by a randomizer – would have to be manual, though I don’t think that should require much switch time in the tests. We would of course allow the same interval between each trial, even though the cables already connected might not have to be disconnected and re-connected. That’s the way proper scientific testing is done: the ONLY variable is in which cables are in use for any trial…