Now now Frank, be nice, George I'm sure is nothing like that. He has one of the most tasteful pocket protectors you ever saw, and his glasses are held together with genuine Scotch tape.
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At the 2018 AXPONA Ted had a room set up with his stuff using Magico speakers. He demoed a song with his HFT thingies and his small bass boxes and then removed them. I couldn't hear a difference regarding the HFTs but I did think I could hear a small difference with the little bass cubes. Then he shut off the Atmosphere thing in the middle and WHOA! The soundstage collapsed and the entire presentation went flat and dry. I looked around the room and everyone I could see looked shocked. It was not a subtle difference. I am a skeptic about tweaks but this was unmistakable. I could easily hear a difference. All his stuff is like that. Some more dramatic than others. But all works beautifully.ย However, just as we aren't able to prove with measurement everything we are able to hear, so also we are not all experienced or skilled at recognizing every aspect of the music that we hear.ย Not playing word games, but words are involved. There is a very real debate as to whether we hear first, or have the words first, or if these two seemingly unrelated things somehow happen together.ย But when you think about it- music. What is the difference between music and any other sound? We joke about it with music we don't like, rap or whatever, and say, "That's not music." But seriously, where does this idea come from, that certain patterns of pressure waves are music while others are not?ย It is very common for people to take things for granted, then use these assumptions to leap to others. The scientists did this years ago with MP3. They tested and measured and found "masking" and other supposed phenomena meant we can compress files down to a fraction, throwing away huge chunks of data, because measurement PROVES people cannot hear it.ย We laugh at this today, because today we all can hear it. Probably pretty much everyone could hear it even back then. Although I remember well the mockery I got for saying this, so maybe not.ย Anyway, point is that even though we do indeed "hear" everything, in the sense of the sound volume is loud enough to register, there are large chunks of what we "hear" that we do not have words for, therefore we do not recognize them, and so in a very fundamental way we do not hearย them at all- in the sense that we recognize the patterns for what they are.ย This higher level hearing is what we call listening. There is a vast difference between having good hearing and being a good listener. Hearing we can test with tones and meters. Listening we test with things like HFT and Atmosphere. ย When you get to the point where you are able to hear all these things, then you will know. These abilities do not just happen. Sometimes might take quite a while and a good deal of effort to get there. When you do though then everything I just said will be crystal clear. Until then, go and listen. You will see. ย ย |
So scientists don't understand what sound is, just as they don't understand what electricity is. This obviously follows from this article. Those who are sure that everything can be measured, and everything immeasurable is just snake oil should read the article carefully.ย The answer is very simple. Once you get your mind around it. ย https://youtu.be/5FELdBsixGg?t=110 |
https://vimeo.com/537019620?fbclid=IwAR3MQwNMN0Q8zLj9tFma2G4MhmzNV0Be8ac0yljG88luSyc6HDmPGQdIB6o Amen, Ted!ย Surprised they let us post that. Awful lot of guys around here no different at all from Gene. They run around chanting snake oil at anything they don't understand, oblivious to the insult this is to the hobby, the industry, and all us serious audiophiles.ย "Ted can turn many people off" seems to me to be less to do with Ted, than "many people" just can't stand to see someone be really successful, smart, and talented. My bet is not a one of them can come up with so much as one reason Ted turns them off, other than the ones I just said, he is a whole lot smarter and doing a whole lot better than you. Well, guess what? That is the way it is supposed to be! This is the world working out just the way it should! Ted is successful, Gene is broke and pathetic. Gene should put up, or shut up. Goes for a lot more than Gene.ย |
Only one way to settle this.ย https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjkTwo men enter, one man leaves! |
Come on guys, letโs give Ted credit for giving Gene the benefit of the doubt. Iโm sure you know how I would like to see this go down- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk.ย My money's on Ted. ๐๐ณ |
Hilarious! I know you're broke (and well you should be, you poor dirty dog, he didn't say) so I will fly you out, put you up, give you some money for food, pay your Uber, even pay your shipping to send your test gear. All you have to do is let me make an absolute fool of yourself, prove Synergistic is for real, and record for all posterity on video you begging to lick my sneakers and me saying, nah, not worthy. |