What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

"Set up to kill the spirits of bad sound with out damping the good spirits of the heart and soul."

Now $1500 for Hallographs starts looking like a good deal.

We may need to put a few of them in Audiogon threads to encourage those good spirits of heart and soul.

The Argent Rooms Lens have a damped control apperture thru the bottom vent for bass control and pressure relief. My suggested placement after 20 years of use is 6 feet outside the edge of either speaker and 1 dead center of my mechanically grounded audio system..including the Room Lenses. Tom

Not everything is a conspiracy.  I have never eaten an audio component even when it was new and made my system sound more alive. Tom

The Argent Rooms Lens have a damped control apperture thru the bottom vent for bass control and pressure relief.

So basically a resonator.

My suggested placement after 20 years of use is 6 feet outside the edge of either speaker

Diffusion at this spot would aid in controlling first reflections.

and 1 dead center of my mechanically grounded audio system..including the Room Lenses.

Also usually a very good spot for diffusion. May provide limited bass control.


Tom, this is not meant to put down the product, but to suggest how it is likely working in your system. I expect their benefit is more from diffusion than bass control. Room measurement would show that in a few minutes, however, not placing them at max room nodes limits what they can do in the bass.  I would not put these on the silly scale. I doubt they meet all their claims, but could certainly see them being useful.

@glupson, My group of people shunned the Soundcraftsman units at the time. We had already started to slide into the minimalist units without tone controls. Units like the Soundcraftsman were in part responsible for that movement as they seriously screwed up soundstaging/imaging. 
Now the Argent Room Lens. If one end of the pipe is open then they could function as Helmholtz resonators but I fail to understand why you would want something resonating by your speakers. As long as the pipes do not ring I suppose they could operate as diffusers at higher frequencies. They look like big door bells. They certainly have more potential to do something than the Hallographs which are too spindly to do anything. IMHO the best way to deal with room acoustics is to use directional speakers so that you do not bounce sound all over the place. Then a little absorption here and there is all you should need. In the small rooms we listen in you really want to decrease the amount of stray energy rather than redirect it. It is like clearing fog out of the way. Room treatments is another area where there is a fair amount of chicanery. Good contoured foam tiles are all you really need but unfortunately, they are not the look that some people want. You have to spend a lot more for decorator stuff that works. I am very lucky in that my wife does not mind them at all. I didn't even have to buy her flowers.