Shunmook ebony weight owners

You're quite the wit, Wolfie. Well, half of one anyway. 

You sure fooled me, Wolfman. I just built some knock off transducer thingies. See if you can guess what fits into the opening of the tiny bowl? Three guesses, first two don't count.

Whoa! What? Hey, Wolfman, you shouldn’t disparage that which you know nothing about. I hate to judge too harshly but I suspect you might benefit from enlarging your circle of friends.  😄  What did you do with the humorous Wolfman? This one is just another angry grumpy pseudo skeptic. 😛

analogluvr

Or if you have a brain it sounds pretty lame !!!

Hey, you're a poet and don't know it.

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover. The next bright thing someone will say is a Ferarri is not worth the asking price.

analogluvr

The only thing they do is satisfy the purchasers expectation bias.

Let's be honest. You have no idea if it works or not, right?

Bet you weren't expectating that.

From the Shun Mook web site. This info has been there for what, 25 years? 

For the last six years Shun Mook Audio Inc. has introduced a new concept and a new approach to usage of material in the control of acoustic resonance in High Fidelity. There is no real magic about our products. They are all based on simple high school physics - "Sympathetic Resonance". As all elements in this universe will resonate when like pattern energy is generated from another material. Just as in a physics experiment when you excite a metal tuning fork of say the "A" frequency and hold it close to another static "A" tuning fork. The result is that the second tuning fork will also get excited because same frequency energy is transferred through the air to cause the vibration. Thus when the musical energy produced by any Hi Fi system will excite to different degree of all materials within the space covered by the acoustic spectrum. Different materials will have a positive or negative effect on each other influencing the final music production. The secret is to control and tame such resonance to the advantage of the system.

It is commonly known that many musical instruments uses Mpingo and other ebony wood to create the most natural musical tones and harmonics. Just like the clarinet, the violin and other wind and string instruments uses the ebony as the essential component to generate the sound. With many years of research and development we at Shun Mook have designed and brought forth several revolutionary devices in the technique of electronic audio enhancement.

  A. Mpingo Disc
The Mpingo Disc is invented by the Shun Mook team. It is made from a combination of Gaboon and Mpingo Ebony, treated with a proprietary process that gives the disc a unique property to regulate the resonance of any sonic component and its transmission. Yet this is a very simple item to use. Just place one to three disc on top of your preamp, CD transport, DA converter, turntable etc, and listen for the wonderful change in your Hi fi system. When this disc is excited by any external acoustic energy, it will resonate throughout the entire audible spectrum, thus overriding unwanted harmonic distortions and at the same enriching the musical reproduction.

 
lewm
Define "work", as in "they work great". Someone.

It all depends on what you mean by "work." Work could mean operate or sound. 

When I met the Shun Mook dudes back 20 years ago the Mpingo discs were not 20 dollars. They’ve never been $20. In 1994 they sold for $50. I can get them all day long on line - when they’re available - for around 30 bucks like new. Ain’t nothing wrong with those apples.

The Shun Mook Mpingo discs are real and they're spectacular! I'm pretty sure you can pick em up for chump change. 

There’s more to these things than meets the eye. Much more. Even the little Shun Mook Mpingo discs are a bit complicated inasmuch as there is a small crystal placed inside the wood and the disc itself is a resonator AND directional. So for the record weight it's not just mass loading or something so mundane.

So for each disc you have to figure out which direction is TOP and which one BOTTOM AND which direction sounds the best when the disc is rotated. Been there done that. The other Shun Mook devices such as the Spatial thing, the one with 3 Mpingo discs on it, and the record weight have to be constructed so that the directionality of each disc is taken into account. I’m confident the Shun Mook record weight is not that easy to knock off unless you are aware of these issues with directionality, otherwise the way the whole thing will be lopsided and probably ineffective.