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

 I am a fervent advocate of SR products & cables (have over $100,000 in their power cables & interconnects; plus another $70-80,000 in their components)...

       If I had that kind of money, everything in my system would still be a mix of Kimber and SR.        BUT: much newer and higher in their product lines.

I bought the Synergistic dots at Axpona 2022.  They work.  Weirdest tweak I‘ve encountered in audio.  I made the mistake of pulling one off of my USB cable going into the DAC once while the music was playing.  System made a pop sound and the music stopped.  Thought I had broken something but I hit play and the music started again.  Don‘t touch the dots unless the system is muted.  I don‘t use them now except for two that I put on my two dedicated circuit breakers.  They don‘t seem as effective that far away from the equipment.  I no longer need them but how would I ever sell “dots“?