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"This is not correct. James Randi didn't contact anyone at Stereophile
about testing the Tice TPT Clock (which on his website he originally
referred to as the "Tate" Clock)."


In which case one might suggest he clarify, for which similar corrections
are readily posted when he finds himself in error, these bits:

http://www.randi.org/jr/072304willful.html#11

"I've had run-ins with Stereophile
before. Refer to www.randi.org/jr/03-23-2001.html. We discussed doing
proper tests of their ridiculous claims for such devices as the "Tice
Clock," a simple and definitive procedure that would certainly show
the truth behind the nonsense -- but they opted out half-way into the
discussion. I also pursued George Tice himself, and found that he kept
running away from proper tests, even though I had top audio people and
the very best equipment available to do the work. It was ever thus.
Bold claims, then retreat. And they're never embarrassed, because they
know that the suckers will continue to buy the products."

He might have mixed recollections of proposed testing with the Tice
interaction described at:

http://www.randi.org/jr/04-20-2001.html

The stereophile related url above pointing in part to:

" That magazine, Stereophile, has published articles that make most
pseudoscience look pale. The "Tate Clock," a regular Radio Shack
digital clock treated with liquid nitrogen and a "secret process" to
align electrons in the power supply (?) is only one of the products it
tested and approved, as well as $1800 speaker cables marked with
arrows to indicate in which direction the electricity should travel.
But, as with all obsessions, these are items that afficionados simply
must have, because they're expensive and "in.""

The "tate" mention is easily a typo as he uses the correct spelling in
many places over several articles.