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One of my audio friends bought one of these units a few months ago and enthused about it. I heard it in his system and that of another, and decided to try it out.
There have been several discussions here about Schumann Resonance Generators and their effects, etc. I have read about their supposed properties and theories about how they work, but I don't believe anything I've read satisfies my intellectual side. Whatever health effects and cosmic properties these have are outside the scope of this discussion.
That said, I'll report what I hear on 2 of my systems- my office system is in a 10x12 room. I sit 5 feet away from a pair of very high-rez Volent VL-2 monitors, driven by a Magnum Dynalab (Simaudio) receiver. Front end is a Sony 999 feeding an Aune DAC. Cabling is Zu Mission and Libtec.
My main system is also very high-rez Selah Audio Tempestas, with a James EMB-1000 sub x'd over at 40 hz. Amp is a Cullen modded PS Audio GCC-500 (icepower), front end is a Modded Oppo BDP83 feeding a tweaked Eastern Electric DAC Plus. Power conditioning is PS Audio power plant premier, speaker cables are Acoustic Zen Satori shotgun, ICs are Zu Event, power cords Zu Mother, Mission, and Mojo.
I know the sound of both my main rigs very well.
First I listened to Beatles Love on my office system. These are re-written Beatles compositions, using the original Beatles master tapes as sources. They sound pretty good, but kind of flat and 2-d compared to good modern recordings. Installing the SW1 on top of one of the speakers and switching it on changed the spatial representation of these recordings. 2-d became much more 3-d, with clean open space between all the instruments, and more depth contrast where there was little before. Tonality, harmonics, dynamics, etc. seemed unchanged.
Moving it to my main system in a larger, noisier room had the same effect, but a little less quantitatively. Familiar recordings all sounded largely unchanged musically, but the illusion of performers in space rather than inhabiting a more 2-d canvas is enhanced in an enjoyable way.
I've been listening carefully for any changes in tonality. The only things I can note are that the bottom end seems to have slightly less weight and body, but with enhanced dimensionality. Also, ambient information on "wet" recordings seems less noticeable in the fabric of the recording, seemingly replaced to some degree by the enhanced 3-d acoustic. All in all, these changes are pretty small in context.
In audiophile terms, I'd say these effects are moderately apparent. Non-'philes may not detect them easily, but most philes should be able to hear them in high-rez systems. YYMV, of course.
I have a mixed opinion about whether this device will be a permanent feature of my systems. So far, I like what they do for the sound, but I'm a bit unsettled about the lack of good info on these. There is talk about their health effects, but I'd like more real information on the health downsides of spraying unknown amounts of this EMF around the room.
So- these seem to work as many (but certainly not all!) users have described, and the mechanism is totally unknown. My own speculation is that the EMF energy is somehow acting as a dithering signal in our personal aural processing chain, but this is pure speculation. A locus of effect in the individual aural circuitry could help account for individual differences in audibility.
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Topic - Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - jonbee 09:51:01 03/23/12 (15)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - apuestopaul 18:08:38 03/30/12 (0)
- I’ve used the Earthcalm Scalar units for a few years now... - MMasztal 19:31:51 03/26/12 (2)
- RE: I’ve used the Earthcalm Scalar units for a few years now... - pictureguy 14:37:13 03/28/12 (0)
- Could very well be - unclestu 14:29:48 03/28/12 (0)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - pictureguy 10:37:31 03/25/12 (0)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - pictureguy 21:17:08 03/24/12 (6)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - horny 01:00:16 03/25/12 (5)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - geoffkait 07:15:07 03/25/12 (4)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - horny 11:59:39 03/25/12 (3)
- RE: Review: Schumann Resonance Generator SW1 - geoffkait 13:46:35 03/25/12 (2)
- Also, the earth is not oscillation at a constant beat of 7.83 Hz like some big clock - Chris O 08:06:50 03/26/12 (1)
- To be more precise.... - geoffkait 08:51:52 03/26/12 (0)
- RE: "...acting as a dithering signal in our personal aural processing chain" - geoffkait 12:00:40 03/23/12 (2)
- It is NOT a conclusion- only a pure speculation about how... - jonbee 21:39:35 03/23/12 (1)
- Another small piece of information... - jonbee 10:10:36 03/24/12 (0)