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Synergestic Research: SCAM

Well, I just sat down to a demo of several Synergistic Research products including the Black Box room bass resonators, their new line conditioner, their active Tranquility Base, little treble resonators and the Atmosphere room acoustics tuner.


Total scam. Never once did they just play a track while moving things around. It was always a few seconds of a track followed by a 30 seconds of so of moving stuff, etc, then another maybe 30 seconds of sound. They'd start a track and then stop it right as some instruments came in, do the change, and then continue playing where it left off. The guy doing the demo was asked twice if he could do a live a/b and he'd give an excuse about how it takes a little time for system to charge or some bs like that and the transition process would mask the differences. Absolute con BS they are DEAD to me.


Also? I could hear JACK SQUAT changes in the demo. A few people around me would comment on the changes but I could hear nothing -- at least as best I could manage with the small clips and pauses in between changes. I really tried, but I could hear nothing.


Here, I took a video of a part of the demo. I'll post it when I have a chance.

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Last year at the show in Irvine, SR gave their demo in the largest room at the show. They had all of their goodies hooked up when the demo started. What I heard was a wall to wall Imax type of Cinerama sound.

When the SR demo pieces were removed from the room, the entire sound stage collapsed. Night and day. When Ted Denny hooked everything back up again. that enormous sound stage returned just like before.

The guy sitting next to me asked me if I had heard a difference. I said: "Of course, it was like night and day." He just shook his head and gave me a little sneer of a smile and said: "Well,  I didn't hear a damned thing." He walked out.

Go figure. 

Could it be that folks like the guy at the show, and the OP haven't trained themselves on what to listen for? 

Frank
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