Synergistic Red Fuse ...

labtec:

Jeepers, who peed in your Cheerios this morning???

Labtec   7.13.2016

"Synergistic Research use great actual electronic devices from companies like Berkeley, Soulution, and Magico...then throw in their tweaks to make it seems like they are somehow the reason for great sound."

 Now Mr. Labtech, it seems reasonable to me that Synergistic Research would wish to display their products with high quality equipment. I don,t see
anything wrong with that. Did you expect them to display their tweaks with a BOSE RADIO?

Well, as a matter of fact, they did use a BOSE RADIO to display their tweaks at RMAF 2013. Here is what Stereophile magazine had to say:

"My initial impression, with everything in the system, was that despite the radio's glaring limitations, the room-filling size and depth of the soundstage were pretty amazing. As Denny (President of Synergistic Research)
progressively removed the HFTs he had positioned around the room (including two at the front and back of the radio)  xxxxxxxxx the sound stage shrank, bass lost impact, and music became localized in the radio, and most important, the listening experience became less compelling. Having that I wish I could have heard this experiment on a far more refined system."

Labtec you had a great opportunity at Newport to hear the Synergistic Research tweaks in some of the most refined equipment in existence.  BUT YOU BLEW THE OPPORTUNITY.

Here is a very different take at what happened at Newport. This review is by one of my favorite and most trusted reviewer. 

"SR was demonstrating in a HUGE room, the largest at the SHOW. The holographic imaging was spectacular. When they moved the SR products out of the room, and disconnected others, the image became small flat movie screen like you'd see at the smaller movie theaters. When the products were moved back into the room and everything reconnected, it became like a huge, 3-D presentation at a good IMAX theater"

This latter review was written, not for gain or money, but as a note to some of his friends who were unable to attend the show. This man is a  real gentleman, who is very respectful of other people, even those with opinions that differ from his.  Ladies and Gentlemen give it up for OREGONPAPA. 

Here is some good advice. This thread has been read by thousands of
people who have now read all the palpable nonsense you have written in two separate posts. You stand naked under bright lights for all to see. Your unprovoked derogatory personal remarks directed at Oregonpapa is disgraceful, crude, mean, and WRONG.

The only good thing to come out of this wretched affair is that several hundred thousand people now know, not who you are, but what you are.

^^^ nyame ...

Thanks for coming to the defense.  Its much appreciated. 

I've spent some time this morning trying to analyse what would motivate someone with "labtec's' pristine qualifications (audiologist, psychologist, sales trainer and financial planner) to make such a convoluted attack on not only me, but Ted Denny, SR in general and upon others posting here. 

What is it about little black fuses that disturbs Mr. "labtec" so? For him to take the time to write twelve paragraphs attacking this thread leads me to believe that he's suffering from something serious such as schizophrenia ... but of course if I did that, he'd most likely deny it and accuse me of addressing "the wrong guy." :-) 

Here's a guy (labtec) who owns a pair of mega-buck Wisdom speakers attacking me for buying an SR Black fuse for the grand sum of $120.00. Here's a guy with the great Wisdom speakers who has them jammed up against the wall, sitting on a hardwood floor, with a huge, reflective flat screen TV between them, and then accuses me and others of not being able to hear ... or of hearing things that are not there.

Obviously, the Wisdom speakers have not imparted any "wisdom" into the psyche of Mr. "labtec."   I used to sell Wisdom speakers when I was selling high end audio equipment, therefore, I can attest to how good they are. Mr. "labtec" is actually wasting the speakers. A shame, really. 

As for my 78 year old "Xman level hearing;" I can hear a lightly struck triangle at the rear of the orchestra. I can hear the metallic shimmer on the very edges of Shelley Mann's cymbals. I can hear the uvula vibrating in the back of Dean Martin's throat when playing "Dream With Dean."  (well maybe I was exaggerating slightly with the uvula thingie.)

But then, I ask the question ... how can anyone who "knows Steve McCormack" be wrong about anything? As we all know, just "knowing" someone makes one an expert in all the fields Mr. labtec claims to be an expert in (audiologist, psychologist, sales trainer and financial planner). 

Just a quick personal note for Mr. labtec:  Surely you have a playground somewhere near your abode, do you not? If so, contained in that playground you will find a sandbox. Please seek out the sandbox, sit in it ... and pound sand. 

OP

Note to Oregonpapa regarding Taj Mahal's mystery guitar player…Jesse Ed Davis became a friend of mine when he was hanging out in Honolulu in the early 80s, borrowed a 60s Vibrolux from me and produced some stuff for a band I knew...a true guitar genius and cool dude who had more soul and technique than nearly anyone I've heard perform anywhere (he used to sit in here and there in Honolulu clubs)...left us way before his time…look him up.

I have a friend who is an owner of a well regarded hifi "salon" who had a pile of SR Black fuses hanging around from some show or something, and after noting my suspicion about SR's inexplicable technology, he leant me a half dozen or so of the things about a month ago (he refuses to use them as he says they "blow too easily"…his words). I stuck them in my tube amp, my preamp, and the power supplies for my dac and phono preamp, reversed them after a couple of weeks per mythological theory (2 blew in my amp…I guess you actually do need to ignore SRs ratings). I even had them switched out by a friend without my knowing for sure that they were in or out so I could sort of "double blind" them. During this exercise I tried hard to be as objective as my previously described "Bully and Coward" demeanor will allow, and the results were as follows: These things don't provide any audible improvement over whatever fuses I had in my gear (my original Littlefuses and other nameless fuses are all back in their former places), and they're sort of dangerous (they blow, literally). I even recorded my system with my digital recording stuff using a great mic, to see if the same recording at the same level with and without the SR mojo in play could reveal anything (asked some well regarded audio pro friends to suffer through these recordings with similar head scratching non-results…many thanks)…I tried man…I gave the things a shot…my conclusion is SR fuses are fooling many into paying 500% of what non "quantum" fuses cost for a placebo that provides membership in the I Think I Can Hear Things Club, which may actually be worth it to the SR fanboy base. Sorry kids…I tried.