I mean really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60pxhHv7eM&feature=youtu.be
why do I want antennas in my system?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60pxhHv7eM&feature=youtu.be
why do I want antennas in my system?
OMG!
+1
I have a hard time with Synergistic Research for two reasons. First, Jon Valin and Peter Bruenniger like that stuff, which makes me suspicious. But, open minded as I am , I bought their latest power conditioner, the UEF 12 and their whiz bang AC power cord last August. Try as I might, I thought it sucked. Got rid of it after a month. Its putative Schuman resonance cancellation and other magic mystery juice failed to make anything sound better in comparison to no filtering at all. Plug your stuff directly into some good AC and spend your money elsewhere.
The most impressive thing to me, since I don't care for the subjective value of their gear, is the make-believe-techno-babble. It's just non-sense. That guy doesn't know anything that the foremost leaders in electronics don't know, but he talks like he's invented a new world of physics.
Actually it all really works. The thing that is almost every single thing adds bandwidth controlled noise instead of removing it. Basically all their stuff does the total opposite of what it says it does. That might be a sound you like, it might not. There is no shortage of limited bandwidth noise appreciation among maybe even the majority of members here. The only shortage of people is those willing to consent to the reality of whether what they like is from noise, instead of removing it. I don't think there is anything in the world wrong with someone appreciating what limited bandwidth noise can do for their enjoyment. I don't personally use it, as I'm going for a polar opposite in a direction that hasn't really been explored enough/much.
The most impressive thing to me, since I don't care for the subjective value of their gear, is the make-believe-techno-babble. It's just non-sense. That guy doesn't know anything that the foremost leaders in electronics don't know, but he talks like he's invented a new world of physics.
He's hardly alone in spewing techno-babble in high end audio. But he seems to have a Ph.D in this whereas other seem to have a Masters or a lowly Baccalaureate. My favorite was regarding their UEF 12 Power Conditioner which claimed that due to their "special" technology, one could actually deliver more power to one's gear, than the power provided by the AC coming into their unit. Caveat emptor.
Congratulations on having such a clear and spot-on view on most high-end devices. Most tweaks (and equipment) do exactly this - adding well selected and very controlled distortion or noise, creating a sound signature. However, for marketing reasons manufacturers do not want to admit it - everyone wants to be more neutral and closer to "art" than his neighbor, as consumers are not prepared to accept the truth ...
Surely many manufacturers openly accept it and not all devices work in this way!
He's hardly alone in spewing techno-babble in high end audio. But he seems to have a Ph.D in this whereas other seem to have a Masters or a lowly Baccalaureate. My favorite was regarding their UEF 12 Power Conditioner which claimed that due to their "special" technology, one could actually deliver more power to one's gear, than the power provided by the AC coming into their unit. Caveat emptor.
Congratulations on having such a clear and spot-on view on most high-end devices. Most tweaks (and equipment) do exactly this - adding well selected and very controlled distortion or noise, creating a sound signature. However, for marketing reasons manufacturers do not want to admit it - everyone wants to be more neutral and closer to "art" than his neighbor, as consumers are not prepared to accept the truth ...
Surely many manufacturers openly accept it and not all devices work in this way!
Yes but those are very different. One is usually in the RF range that is inaubible and not recorded onto the media but affects the audible range when it's in electronics, and the other is in an audible range. It makes me think of how some room white noise is often added to spoken word tracks for like youtube etc or it sounds weird to us.
Once you enter noise generators, people susceptibility can be quite varied - just see the testimonies of our members in this old WBF thread http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?14632-Acoustic-Revive-Schuman-Wave-Generator.
Yup, the end result is noise in the audible realm either way though. It is definitely true some music or speech can sound weird without background noise added.
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