Anybody want a laugh?
I thought those things were simply "art" but it seems they are claiming something about acoustics of your room? Tibetan meditation bowls? Just buy those they're cheaper and they sound nice. https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Singing-Bowl-Set-Handcrafted/dp/B01A6B0ICC/ref=asc_df_B01A6B0ICC/?tag... |
Its very rare for Ted to have anything that’s not a) incredibly effective and b) good value for money. My system is treated with HFT, ECT and PHT, all of which bear some similarity to the new ART. https://highend-electronics.com/products/synergistic-research-acoustic-art Which stands for Analogue Room Treatment, an unfortunate (or perhaps intended?) acronym that makes people think its all for show. If I know Ted nothing could be further from the truth. The joke here is a bunch of guys on a site dedicated to audiophiles are doing nothing but cracking wise and heaping derision on.... audiophiles. The ones who aren’t- me and mahgister- also happen to be the ones with actual experience with a wide range of tweaks. Hmmm. On the slim chance anyone actually interested in improving their audio is reading this thread, it looks to me like the technical explanation to this ART thing is dither. Look it up. Noise added to a signal actually improves human perception of clarity and detail, but only when the noise is randomized a particular way. Anyone truly interested can look this up and learn that’s how dither works, and its been in standard use in video for many years now. The principle in sound should be obvious and clear but only to thinking audiophiles so let me explain. All sound waves in a room reflect and form modes and standing waves. Traditional acoustic treatments work by damping (reducing, attenuating) depending on the size, shape, location and mechanical properties of the damping material. Simplifying immensely, the bigger and thicker the lower the affected frequency. Its real easy to overdamp a room using these traditional old-school methods. Been there. Done that. HFT are much more high tech. Even one of these tiny little dots makes a difference that can be heard. A whole set of them makes your speakers disappear. More sets on the walls and you start to get reviews like you will read on my system page. The beauty of these things is unlike GIK type panels they do not alter the fundamental acoustic signature of the room. What they do instead is greatly improve clarity of detail resulting in a much more lifelike 3D sound. Pretty remarkable for a handful of little peanut M&M size doo-dads. So to me, being an educated, open-minded audiophile who listens to ideas as much as to music, and thinks deep and hard about both, it seems Ted has come up with an even more powerful means of breaking up standing waves allowing us to hear details more clearly. Sounds to me like this ART thing is no laughing matter. More likely it is just one more on a long list of success stories and one I will be keeping an eye on. |
I improve the HFT idea with homemade fishing cones lines... And with herkimer diamond inside some.... With various size for the cones.... And even connect grid of cones with copper tape and incredibly that work... I put also a bell of cones in my room center..... I use also other less efficient resonator and 10 cheap modified Schumann generator with great succeess.... This is ACTIVE acoustic controls... Most people use only passive materials for acoustic controls, but active methods help a lot especially in the high frequencies... cost: peanuts My motto is: Hi-Fi for the poor My act is: Homemade work The greatest myth in audio is the relation between quality and price, in fact the relation is non linear.... the second greatest myth is the idea that an audio system sound at his optimal level without needing to be embeds in the mechanical resonant dimension, in the electro-magnetic grid of the house, and in the acoustical fied of the room.... |
