Schumann Resonator

@millercarbon

It is clear you like to put yourself on a pedestal and pretend to be all knowing when it comes to hifi. With so many years invested doing that, you shouldn’t be surprised when somebody comes along and challenges you, it’s bound to happen. In that sense, you should pay attention to what thecarpathian, sokogear and others are saying. And... you must respond if you are to remain credible. Or you can bow out by saying you misjudged the reading comprehension of your audience. Since I believe I have relatively good reading comprehension and I understand acoustics and how discrete sources add, can you explain why you made the following comment?

"Starting with one I added a couple at a time until now at 8 with 2 more on the way. Each one improved the same amount as the last. So much for the "law" of diminishing marginal returns."

Also on a more fundamental level can you explain why adding a 7.83 Hz electromagnetic generator to your room improves the clarity of your system? Can you also address the odd and even harmonics that are generated? The 5th harmonic is at 39.15 Hz. Enquiring minds want to know...

But i dont like when people apeak always of "placebo effect".... An incremental series of positive changes accumulating in months cannot be illusory....

On the contrary. Believers in homeopathy become more and more convinced over time that their water has healing properties. They seek confirmation biases and use them as ‘proof’. We see it all the time, even on this forum. In a life of 70 years there will be nights of good sleep and nights of poor sleep. Put a box and a cat under your bed, and when the next night is a good sleep then that is due to the box. And the cat. Or the cat. Or maybe the effect of going to bed convinced you are going to get a good nights sleep. Or random chance.
I watched Synergistic Research’s own video demo of their HFTs. Untreated room, level 1, 2, 3 etc. They never said “you can’t tell with a short listen”. They said each time there was obvious change, they described the change and directed us to it, and that we could hear it over a video quality feed with poor recording. You know I’m a skeptic but even I wondered if I could hear a difference when the salesman directed me to a certain sound after a ‘change’. So I asked my son to take the audio stream and run it in his LogicPro tools at a resolution far higher than the original broadcast. We chopped out the repeating music played at each level of the test and anonymised the samples. We shuffled the order to blind each other. We placed them as tracks so we could switch between them for hundreds of listens. There was no difference between them that we could identify when there was no ‘direction’ from the salesman, and when there was no self-direction from knowing which sample was which. Those ‘changed’ sounds we were directed to by the salesman were, you guessed it, there in every sample. It wasn’t that we couldn’t identify which type of sound went with which level of treatment - we couldn’t hear or see any difference at all when blind. Of course, if he switched to vinyl, or switched the speakers, the differences would be huge.
I’m aware of some of my own biases, and unaware of course of others I have.  Maybe I wanted not to hear difference. So by zooming in to the frequency responses in great detail, the patterns were, physically, the same. Maybe I should post them here.
Just like the cup and ball trick. Avoid the misdirection of the magician, and avoid your own biases, and you might get to keep your money. We never do though!

The things I read. What people believe and don't believe. Just amazing..

Truly the "Teeter Totter" effect.

Some of the tweaks are so friggin' ugly, I know they would sound bad.

Does it sound funny, it's not. If it is visually ugly, is sounds ugly.. YES IT DOES... Very simple for me. 

If I had to live with some of the CRAP that passes for a sound room, I wouldn't.  Wires, antenna, stuff everywhere looking like a cyclone hit it.. NO THANKS.

A mad scientist lab, MAYBE.  My listening room NEVER..

A studio setup, my work areas are like that, pretty mobile, wheels on everything NOW.

I consider a lot of the stuff I use, like diffusers, they will NEVER be in my house, too many ways to still look like a home without trying to clean a diffuser, the things stay filthy, (they work OK).

I have seen diffusers cause divorces, no kidding.. 

It all part of the process for me. If the cleaning isn't easy, you've done a BAD job.. If it's hard to do PEOPLE won't do it... Someone else might but YOU won't...

I've worked around too many people and seen their habits.. LAZY is normal.. Bitchin' about the cleaning person it THEIR way.. I clean my own home.. I'm a common man..

So the easier it is to clean the cleaner it will be, The harder it is to clean, the dirtier it STAYS... The dirtier it stays the worse it sounds... YES it does work that way... The difference is .. I know the difference..

Mechanic, thing guys... To thine own self be true...

I put a fart in a bag and hung it from the ceiling, the more bags I added, etc...  Just kill me guys... Paint the main... PAINT THE MAIN...

Cover the outside with magnets, and cut out space blankets... to reflect the BAD rays back to the BAD ray place.. RAY

MERCY

BTW, what was in the paint? :-) I might try it..

Regards