Pear Cable Withdraws from James Randi’s $1M Challenge

Earlier this month, we reported on a story where James Randi was putting audiophiles to the test with a $1 million dollar prize. This all began because of an audio editor who highly recommended a pair of $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables, noting they were far better than the Monster cable equivalents, which of course cost far, far less.

Only a week later, Pear offered to take the challenge by offering up the same audiophile who wrote the review. Well, in a move that’s not surprising, Pear has since withdrawn from the contest and now notes that they will not provide the cables for the test. Yeah… that’s not a sign of defeat at all. However, if this audiophile believes so strongly that he can tell the difference between $80 cables and $7,250 cables, then it’s a small price to pay when there’s $1 million right around the corner.

At the request of Michael Fremer, with whom we have been communicating regarding his challenging of your assertions regarding high-end audio cables, we would like to inform you directly of Pear Cable’s decision to not participate in your claimed challenge. While we support Mr. Fremer’s efforts, and believe firmly in the performance of our products, we prefer that he simply use his own reference cables in his proposed test.

Source: Gizmodo