What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

"Like any boundary intersection the Holographs will react differently to drywall, plaster, glass,wood,book cases,record jackets. They all have a varied shear velocity and shape or contour that will react differently to the varied shape and shear velocites of the Holographs."

Wouldn’t it be better to make them from one wood/material depending on the wall surface one is placing them next to?

Even if four different woods are used, how does it go if a person has a plaster wall with a painting hanging on it? Or two paintings, one covered with glass? It may end up in any number of combinations. How to assure that whatever shear wave from a certain material will hit the right area of the Hallograph? How does that work?

Do, let’s say, GIK room treatments increase or decrease the perceived benefits of Hallographs?

What scientific methods could be used to verify this performance? Where does one even start with that?

By the way, Shakti website mentions "patent pending" which is about what reviews from 2003 mentioned, too. What happened with that?

These are the right questions to ask.... Judgement without trials or by the book are not enlightened process....

I know an informed opinion is really offensive to some people who are unable to make one. I apologize for having a fairly strong background in acoustics. I guess I should be apologizing for my audio privilege and work harder to provide a safe space for disadvantaged audiophiles.

I will go back and play with my 200mpg carburettor, who cares if it violates the laws of thermodynamics, and when I am bored of it, I will go back to playing with the $200 black box that will reduce my electricity usage 30%, again, who cares if it violates the laws of thermodynamics.

If you will note above, I did suggest that I could possible measure its presence (with/without), something I suspect the people who "designed" it have not done. However, for $1500, you could actually buy some real acoustics that make a significant measurable and audible change that truly could make a dramatic improvement.

glupson and all..

Look here US Patent 8,735,702 and here US patent 9858903
These methods reduce and or remove a polarity of shear mostly thru  dissipation, some with geometry.. The reduction or removal of a polarity of shear lessens "interfering energy" a term my friend Debbie coined. Interference left unchecked can return to the source.. to then again become a part of the signal or the music. For instance vibrating strings can become polluted with energy that is reflected back from the floor thru the endpin..(an adjustable monopole stand) this reflected energy partially becomes 1 with the next note. Debbie can now analyze both mine and her devices when used with a cello and soon for violin.

I have been working with others in the audio field for years and we are now trying to unpack all of this "Interfering Energy" Because of my more recent work Debbie has come forward to decipher her own work and what we the group have been doing for many years. There is a whole lot to unpack with all of these observations and collected  information. The hardest thing is to be able to describe to others the why and how and to record and measure the spectrums so we can make further improvements over time. Tom

The Hallograph is a design method to dissipate energy more so than damp energy. 
 


 

theaudiotweak,

Those patents, at least in their implementation, do not seem to have anything to do with Hallograph.

It is very clear which way whatever wave would be transmitted in those patents, but Hallograph is, for the lack of better word, remote and waves from the wall material would have to find the coresponding area of the Hallograph they would match for proposed effect. If, maybe even better to say when, they hit the non-ideal (for their material) area of the Hallograph, the outcome could, in theory, be detrimental rather than desired.

If different wall materials interact with different Hallograph materials in some ideal situation proposed (that is why there are different types of wood, apparently), it would be necessary to aim waves accurately. How it is done is still mystery. Once we figure out how waves get to Hallograph in the first place, we can expand to what Hallograph does then.

And that is not even touching "activated" and my other questions about how long it stays that way and if it needs reactivation.

Speaking of patents, what is your guess why patent is pending for 17 years?