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Science, pseudoscience, spurious explanations of real phenomena

You are the "maniac", so I tend to become intrigued with what you discover!

Anyway, I don't see why these guys are so up in arms. Frankly, there's plenty of "scientific" principle behind resonance and psychoacoustics. Hell, this stuff was known to the Greeks way back when! So you don't have to be able to explain it correctly in order to exploit it successfully.

"From the patent it becomes clear that beside the density of the basic alloy used, the dimensions of the cup are of importance. Its height and diameter determine the sort and amount of the perceived effect. To recap, the Acoustic System resonators get excited by acoustic waves in the room. They sympathetically resonate at specific frequencies and thus add their output to the sonic event. This adds new direct sound sources to those represented by the loudspeakers and their early reflections. Since the cups' resonant frequencies are quite high, these secondary sound sources operate exclusively in the overtone range. Additionally and importantly, they arrive at the ear later than the sound waves which activate them, mixed in with the early reflections of the speakers yet being perceived not as a reflections but direct sound from discrete sources."

The above from the 6moons review is a pretty good recap of resonance and psychoacoustic phenomena quite reasonably documented from experimentation. The question is: Is the mumbo-jumbo-hype machine mis-explaining it, but correctly describing its effects? I don't know, having neither seen nor heard them.

But it is intriguing!


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