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
Madavid0, pretty sure I see your problem. There's no such thing as the audio memory effect. Whew! That was a close call.

As has been mentioned in other threads here on Audiogon, the word "scam" gets thrown around too freely.
I did not see or hear a scam, however, I agree that the demonstration could have been better orchestrated.

Lak,

Yes I agree with you. Certain terms are used too often and IMO inappropriately.

"Great" when good is probably the better choice.

"Hate" when dislike is the better description.

Words do have meaning. Just my observation.

Charles

I listened to that video and do think I heard a difference- for the better.  I do not own any SR products, have never heard any, and was not expecting to hear any difference.  What I heard was a reduction in noise or distortion that is in the music itself; not in the background.  It sounded more natural, easier on the ears especially during the dynamic swings.  The echo sounded more real too. I would not call it a huge difference but if I had the money I would try it in the context of my own system.  As far as the demonstration itself, it seems like it could have been done differently and would have been very interesting to hear instantaneous A-B rather than the way it was done with the delay in between.