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
Don’t worry the video is coming. You guys will see it for yourselves. The lame excuse as to why the Atmosphere room resonance controller can’t be live a/b tested. The leading question "you prefer the first one right?" Why can’t the active Tranquility base be live a/b tested? Why can’t he move the Black Boxes in and out of the room with the music playing? Why couldn’t he let us listen to the whole track? Why does he cut it off just as new instruments come in? And then resume after change where he left off? Who is that clown in the back wearing the dealer badge constantly stating how amazing the room is and how great the demo sounds?

Because it’s a scam, a con, a flim-flam.
I've noticed often that when someone says that they hear no differences in sound they invariably make the assumption that listeners who "do" hear differences are some how suckers, foolish or gullible.  This is a faulty conclusion.


I agree. 
Also, you never hear owners of high-end cables deprecating those who do not believe they have an impact on sound...even though (more often than not) these bitter critics have never experienced these cables.

Everyone needs to remember something about 'madavid0'.  In his 'Class D Trash' post, he lists the amps he was talking about.  The first two were $300.00 and $400.00.  If he really thinks that spending that much money on equipment is going to get him into the state of the art equipment category, he probably also believes what he's saying in this post.

I cannot comment on your findings, etc. but overall you don't explain what changes the other people heard.  Was is sound stage, details, micro or macro dynamics, air, positioning of instruments, backing vocals, backing instruments, etc.  How can one determine what you were hearing versus the others.  For example, I heard a guys system recently when comparing DACs.  His dac sounded OK to me but when we switched the sound stage grew wider and deeper, vocal and instrument placement changed and were very solid, tone was way improved, and details were much better.  To me and others a 100% improvement.  He heard all that but he felt the bass was better/deeper with the other DAC.  So what mattered to him was the bass over what I thought was a big improvement. 

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.

I understand your position though, I just don't know what the others heard.  And what really matters is what you think because it is your money to spend to improve your system.

Happy Listening.
Gosh, bigkidz, how could there be such a big difference between DACs? Don’t DACs just operate on 1s and 0s? And which DAC was so much better than his?

Enjoy the music

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