In Reply to: Synergistic Research Tranquility Base/MacBook Pro posted by Mercman on March 23, 2012 at 11:05:37:
Thanks for the review Merc. Good to have someone with the equipment "take one for the team" whether it be good or bad.
I do have concerns however and I think that much was well described by Dynobot who obviously researched your past reviews. In reading the review, I could not help but get a feeling that this sounds like a contrived press release! I work in health care and come across scientific "research" quite often where you know that some of the stuff was written by the manufacturer rather than an independent agent. That's the kind of feeling I get here. Doesn't really help when you've visited the manufacturer and they sent someone over to help set it up for you... That would definitely have major impact on one's opinion which should really be just about this piece of metal you bought for $2K. Also doesn't help that we still have no idea what this thing is supposed to be doing (I thought I saw someone from Synergistic posting here but they have not bothered to clarify anything)!?
Look, I may be off base but just putting my thoughts out on this.
BTW: In what way was the following "easy"?
"One should experiment with the MIGs and Enigma Bullets for optimum sound. I found this process easy with minimal effort."
What were you listening for? You got a number of variables here with these "Bullets" and whatnot so I don't quite understand.
Also, for this blind testing with friends, was it an instantaneous change with in on/off?
Was there NOTHING you disliked about this thing? It concerns me that these tweaks almost always improves but never deteriorates the sound... For example, if this thing was doing something, could you also find combinations of the bullets and MIG's where you hear deterioration in the audio? What about putting the computer beside the unit and detecting noise or something...
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Follow Ups
- Thanks for the review... - Archimago 03/24/1214:59:56 03/24/12 (33)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Mercman 16:11:32 03/24/12 (32)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Part-Time Audiophile 09:34:04 03/25/12 (0)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Bob_C 21:03:33 03/24/12 (2)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Archimago 22:51:40 03/24/12 (1)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Bob_C 09:20:06 03/25/12 (0)
- Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Tony Lauck 19:10:22 03/24/12 (26)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Archimago 15:11:40 03/25/12 (7)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Mercman 15:52:28 03/25/12 (6)
- Absolutely true: for the naysayer with his agendae - Sordidman 09:23:22 03/26/12 (0)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - fmak 22:09:03 03/25/12 (4)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Mercman 12:25:39 03/26/12 (0)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Tony Lauck 08:37:03 03/26/12 (2)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Mercman 12:14:51 03/26/12 (1)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Tony Lauck 13:41:22 03/26/12 (0)
- RE: Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies - Bob_C 21:10:49 03/24/12 (0)
- Blind tests are an invalid measure of sound quality. nt - Norm 20:29:12 03/24/12 (16)
- Blind tests are an education. - Tony Lauck 13:56:51 03/25/12 (3)
- Double Blind tests are an amusement. - Norm 18:00:28 03/25/12 (1)
- RE: Double Blind tests are an amusement. - Tony Lauck 18:22:42 03/25/12 (0)
- RE: Blind tests are an education. - Mercman 14:07:19 03/25/12 (0)
- BS --) RE: Blind tests are an invalid measure of sound quality. nt - Archimago 22:48:03 03/24/12 (11)
- "Blind tests are the highest level of evidence..." - no, they are not. - carcass93 09:23:26 03/26/12 (0)
- Many think the measure is invalid. Certainly, I do and would pay no attention to it results. - Norm 13:35:24 03/25/12 (9)
- Sorry... Disagree... RE: Many think the measure is invalid... - Archimago 14:51:26 03/25/12 (8)
- Isomorphic mean related to or characteristic of. - Norm 17:54:58 03/25/12 (7)
- RE: Isomorphic mean related to or characteristic of. - Archimago 21:50:45 03/25/12 (6)
- If you read what I said, I am talking about the double blind tests advocated and used by some psychologists. - Norm 11:23:14 03/27/12 (0)
- Norm is 100% right when it comes to the Null hypothesis - Tony Lauck 08:49:03 03/26/12 (4)
- RE: Norm is 100% right when it comes to the Null hypothesis - Archimago 17:27:37 03/26/12 (2)
- RE: Norm is 100% right when it comes to the Null hypothesis - Tony Lauck 06:27:37 03/27/12 (1)
- RE: Norm is 100% right when it comes to the Null hypothesis - Archimago 19:04:52 03/27/12 (0)
- Null? - fmak 09:13:11 03/26/12 (0)
- RE: Thanks for the review... - Archimago 17:11:04 03/24/12 (0)