Schumann Resonator


I got 2 of these from Amazon...careful that free returns are applicable.  I charged them up, turned them on and holy moly.....they do help with my system.   What I hear is clarity....space between instruments, a definite difference in upright and electric bass, wider soundstage...you know...all the good stuff. At first I thought it might be increased brightness, but no....it is still the same in that regard.  I still can't believe it, and will listen again tomorrow (saved the packaging for the return)...but today, I'm about to keep them.
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I must say that sometimes in a relatively balanced resulting S.Q. , after many experiments, sometimes with only a minor change in appearance the complete S.Q. MAY dramatically change improving or losing the quality which was reach with other means till this change...My system has not achieved his evolution till recently and each time i was thinking that it was optimal and i was wrong.... 😁

For example the exact right balance between reflecting and absorbing acoustical surface...May create a huge impact....

Lately my few inches shortening of a few straws, the neck of my Helmholtz pipes and tubes grid...Create great impact....

Other examples are possible...I lived through many....

The S.Q. is a very sensible equilibrium between many known and unknown or underestimated factors in the 3 working embedding dimensions...

Our own capacity to detect these changes is less linked to supra normal heraring that did not exist for me anyway, than to my listenings and experiments history with the SAME gear in the SAME room....I call that learning to hear in some specific environment.... It is not a power in itself of discrimination applicable anywhere with any system in any room.... It is an HABIT.......Hearing is an habit that also can lose his power if transfered suddenly in an another environment than the usual.... 😊

It is the reason why blind test could be important and it is for the same reason that they cannot play a great active role in an evolutive learning specific habit context.... They are more useful in a social and scientific way and GENERAL environment for designers and customers etc....

For someone learning his own audio specific environment, his own room and his own gear, it is more an experiment he can try partially for sure, not scientifically, and i did it by accident many times unvolontarily....It surprized me a lot when it did....The unconscious was knowing that something was lacking not my consciousness  at all,at the times when these accidents has occured...It percolate from my unocnscious to my consciousness that something was not right slowly... It surprized me....It proves to me that some changes were real not borderline placebo....Some were probably borderline placebo...

But i dont like when people  apeak always of "placebo effect".... An incremental series of positive changes accumulating in months cannot be illusory.... One change times to times could be and has been for me surely....It pertain to my personal habit my learning history with his own deceptive way and his own powerful way also.... IT IS A LEARNING experience not a capacity given at birth.....





@millercarbon

It is clear you like to put yourself on a pedestal and pretend to be all knowing when it comes to hifi. With so many years invested doing that, you shouldn’t be surprised when somebody comes along and challenges you, it’s bound to happen. In that sense, you should pay attention to what thecarpathian, sokogear and others are saying. And... you must respond if you are to remain credible. Or you can bow out by saying you misjudged the reading comprehension of your audience. Since I believe I have relatively good reading comprehension and I understand acoustics and how discrete sources add, can you explain why you made the following comment?

"Starting with one I added a couple at a time until now at 8 with 2 more on the way. Each one improved the same amount as the last. So much for the "law" of diminishing marginal returns."

Also on a more fundamental level can you explain why adding a 7.83 Hz electromagnetic generator to your room improves the clarity of your system? Can you also address the odd and even harmonics that are generated? The 5th harmonic is at 39.15 Hz. Enquiring minds want to know...




But i dont like when people apeak always of "placebo effect".... An incremental series of positive changes accumulating in months cannot be illusory....
On the contrary. Believers in homeopathy become more and more convinced over time that their water has healing properties. They seek confirmation biases and use them as ‘proof’. We see it all the time, even on this forum. In a life of 70 years there will be nights of good sleep and nights of poor sleep. Put a box and a cat under your bed, and when the next night is a good sleep then that is due to the box. And the cat. Or the cat. Or maybe the effect of going to bed convinced you are going to get a good nights sleep. Or random chance.
I watched Synergistic Research’s own video demo of their HFTs. Untreated room, level 1, 2, 3 etc. They never said “you can’t tell with a short listen”. They said each time there was obvious change, they described the change and directed us to it, and that we could hear it over a video quality feed with poor recording. You know I’m a skeptic but even I wondered if I could hear a difference when the salesman directed me to a certain sound after a ‘change’. So I asked my son to take the audio stream and run it in his LogicPro tools at a resolution far higher than the original broadcast. We chopped out the repeating music played at each level of the test and anonymised the samples. We shuffled the order to blind each other. We placed them as tracks so we could switch between them for hundreds of listens. There was no difference between them that we could identify when there was no ‘direction’ from the salesman, and when there was no self-direction from knowing which sample was which. Those ‘changed’ sounds we were directed to by the salesman were, you guessed it, there in every sample. It wasn’t that we couldn’t identify which type of sound went with which level of treatment - we couldn’t hear or see any difference at all when blind. Of course, if he switched to vinyl, or switched the speakers, the differences would be huge.
I’m aware of some of my own biases, and unaware of course of others I have.  Maybe I wanted not to hear difference. So by zooming in to the frequency responses in great detail, the patterns were, physically, the same. Maybe I should post them here.
Just like the cup and ball trick. Avoid the misdirection of the magician, and avoid your own biases, and you might get to keep your money. We never do though!
The things I read. What people believe and don't believe. Just amazing..

Truly the "Teeter Totter" effect.

Some of the tweaks are so friggin' ugly, I know they would sound bad.

Does it sound funny, it's not. If it is visually ugly, is sounds ugly.. YES IT DOES... Very simple for me. 

If I had to live with some of the CRAP that passes for a sound room, I wouldn't.  Wires, antenna, stuff everywhere looking like a cyclone hit it.. NO THANKS.

A mad scientist lab, MAYBE.  My listening room NEVER..

A studio setup, my work areas are like that, pretty mobile, wheels on everything NOW.

I consider a lot of the stuff I use, like diffusers, they will NEVER be in my house, too many ways to still look like a home without trying to clean a diffuser, the things stay filthy, (they work OK).

I have seen diffusers cause divorces, no kidding.. 

It all part of the process for me. If the cleaning isn't easy, you've done a BAD job.. If it's hard to do PEOPLE won't do it... Someone else might but YOU won't...

I've worked around too many people and seen their habits.. LAZY is normal.. Bitchin' about the cleaning person it THEIR way.. I clean my own home.. I'm a common man..

So the easier it is to clean the cleaner it will be, The harder it is to clean, the dirtier it STAYS... The dirtier it stays the worse it sounds... YES it does work that way... The difference is .. I know the difference..

Mechanic, thing guys... To thine own self be true...

I put a fart in a bag and hung it from the ceiling, the more bags I added, etc...  Just kill me guys... Paint the main... PAINT THE MAIN...

Cover the outside with magnets, and cut out space blankets... to reflect the BAD rays back to the BAD ray place.. RAY

MERCY