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I own 7 of them, they work better than advertized, however...

Posted by tonemaniac (A) on November 20, 2006 at 15:48:15

In Reply to: Acoustic System Resonators - follow-up posted by KlausR. on November 17, 2006 at 23:23:28:

They are real... they do what Tchang says they do...and more... there are a few caveats that are persnickety though... they are VERY sensitive to temperature, and their behavior will shift markedly with temperature changes... they seem to open up optimally at just above room temp, about 74-76 degrees F, below about 68 degrees and you will hear their impact taper off... I have heard them fade in and out over an evening with room changes... the second thing is that they take a few days to "settle"... which makes no sense, but neither did cable settling when I first heard about it... They can be relatively subtle for a day or two then become pronounced. The third thing is that more expensive-more precious metal content doesn't automatically mean more of what YOU need sonically... Sometimes the super premium one can be overwhelming, almost sugary sweet. The "basic" copper-silver alloy may be much more satisfying to clean up random tonal crap... fourth, there is no one right way to place them, you will have to experiment at length... the little cups have these 4 prong emitter things that are not symmetrical, so if you place the cups with the prongs in "wide" orientation they will sound unlike the cups with the prongs in "narrow" orientation...

There are much closer to musical instruments than esoteric "subtle energy" B.S., and they require the attention to detail that a maker of a musical instrument might have.... they are small too, tiny actually, I was expecting at least twice as large...

All that said, if and when you get everything set up correctly, and it will be hard to say how much of what you will need and exactly where to put it, given the great differences in listening rooms, personal tastes, they are truly impressive.

However... I would absolutely first attend to dealing with reflections with a combination of absorber panels and quadratic residue diffusers and BAD panels, or the equivalent, because the RESONATORS are expensive.... and they wont linearize a crappy, overly bright room zinging with slap echoes and corner load honk...

Spend your first three grand cleaning up the room, spend your next three grand, or multiples thereof, or things like the Resonators... you might get as much bang for a lesser outlay with the Shakti Hallograph though, if you dont mind the visual nature of the beast, or you could get handy with a tubular pipe cutter and some copper tube and make yourself a set of "pan pipe" wall resonators tuned just the way you want.... which would be a fun project, keeping to a tight budget, and a great way to teach kids some basic physics too...

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