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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.

madavid0

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whitestix
699 posts
 
Madavid0.
You stepped into it on this forum calling BS on SR "tweaks".  I have tried a boatload of their stuff as I am an inveterate audio tweaker, which has included their foolish and pricey "room dots" and goofy expensive fuses.  If Geoff Kait chimes in on the discussion, you can expect any notion of sensible discussion to go out the window as he peddles the most foolish audio tweaks imaginable.  I encourage folks to try the SR tweaks to see if they have efficacy in their system and clearly many do find them useful.  They do have a 100% money-back return policy.  However, don't be swayed by the devotees on this and other forums who seem to leave good sense behind when they evaluate their tweaks.  I suspect your ears and pocketbook are serving you well in the conclusion you reached with the SR products you heard.  There are a ton of worthy tweaks, including better cabling and inexpensive component isolation devices that will improve the sound of your system far more than the SR gear.  Cheers and thank you for your honest post.  

whitestix
699 posts
 
Geoff, regardless of the SR tweaks I have auditioned and returned, I have never lost my senses to the degree that would motivate me to try a single one of your idiotic tweaks.  Your stuff takes the cake for getting audio-fools to part with their cash for no good reason, except their penchant for self-deception.  Folks, use your good sense.  Still, I will applaud SR for their money-back return policy and if you hear the difference, then spend away.  But remember that there are lots of folks preying on your audio-anxiety who are keen to take your money for tweaks of a "snake oil" nature.  Cheers.
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