Bybee Audio tweeks. IQSE

I’m all for it. Hats off to you!! If I’m not mistaken SteinMusic did something with crystals and electricity but I don’t recall the details. The SteinMusic Harmonizer. There’s someone else who sells a lot of crystal stuff for the electrical grid, can’t think of his name. Most of my crystal products are actually for resonance control. 

I also explained the quantum mechanics of the Intelligent Chip to Jack Bybee over the phone. Brilliant Pebbles was the very first comprehensive suite of crystal based products for audio applications. The were officially introduced in 2003. No one else had a commercial product that addressed a multitude of problems. Acoustic Revive came alongmuch later. Brilliant Pebbles, accept no substitutes! 

I sent Jack Bybee some of my Brilliant Pebbles to play with via John Curl 13 years ago. Coincidence? You decide.

Ouch! Very ouch! You little scamps! Ozzy, we already settled the Bybee battery fiasco. It lasts 10 years because the battery doesn’t draw much power. By the way you can trade up to the Ultra Signature version of the clock. The one with the Quantum batteries and all manner of new fangled stuff. Mind blowing! 😬

Whoa! Hold on there Ozzy. Most people would just replace the batteries. Besides I never said they’d last 10 years.uthe whole issue is moot anyway since the batteries are user replaceable, unlike when I first started selling them 15 years ago or whatever.

Ozzy, when changing batteries be sure to set the clock so it shows time that's about 2 1/2 hours later than your local time. 

Don't be a hater. Be a lover. It's all about time. If the battery was discharged the time could not be displayed by the clever clock and there would be no time. It's a manipulation of time. There's an explanation on my web site I wrote with the Belts.

Wow! You got me there. I didn’t realize you had the fashion sense to have one of my clocks. 💃🏻

The standard AA and AAA Duracell batteries I use in the Clever Little Clock last between 5 and 8 years and never (rpt never) become corroded. The expected lifetime of newer style batteries like Duracell Quantum batteries is almost certainly 10 years, no problem.

I have thirty products. Do you really think I'm going to pursue patents and trademarks? And enforce them?  Come on!

But no previous Sonic Tonic for audio tweaks. That's kind of the point, no?

Sonic Tonic, Machina Dynamica. Been there for years. Doesn't anyone use Google anymore? 😛

That's weird. The guy in the article at Tweek Geek mentioned Sonex in the same breath as the Bybee stuff and Shakti Halographs. Anyone who takes Sonex seriously must have serious hearing issues. One of the worst materials ever foisted on naive and gullible audiophiles. I'm not very happy they used the name of anti static product, Sonic Tonic, I can tell you that. 😡

A wind up watch and clock have their own power supplies. Are they active devices?

The batteries in my Clever Little Clock (which is built on a Casio travel clock) last at least five years with standard Duracell batteries, maybe ten with Quantum batteries. Batteries are longer lasting across the board than they used to be. I’m pretty sure my Casio G Shock battery lasts at least five years. It certainly wouldn’t make sense if one had to replace the battery in a Casio every year. Give me a break!

At least Mr. Bybee was not being deceitful. He would have no reason to. You claim the battery will only last one year. How do you know? I thought the device just came out. 

Exhibit A - Mr. Bybee has no motive to deceive or mislead or any such thing. I heard through the grapevine he gave his significant other a brand new Bentley a few years ago. Capish?

Actually, to be fair, the performance does not (rpt not) degrade over time. At least over the lifetime of the battery, which is ten years. Not too many things in this hobby last ten years. Or in life. Don’t be a big baby! 👶

I think you might be misunderstanding what I wrote a little bit. I’m saying that Mr. Bybee like me doesn’t consider that a battery powered device is necessarily an "active" device. So battery powered and active are not necessary synonymous. I describe my clock as battery powered but I don’t refer to it as active. It can be placed anywhere in the room. It’s passive. It’s not connected to the audio system anywhere, not the AC power, any cables and doesn’t interact with acoustic waves in the room.

So what? My Clever Little Clock is battery powered but I would call it a passive device. Depends on how you define passive. The Tice Clock plugged into a wall outlet so I would tend to call that clock an active device. 

Depends on how much energy is required, no? Besides I highly doubt Mr. Bybee would mislead anyone.

I bet some of the Kool-Aid drinkers probably made fun of Geoff’s designs.

You guys are freaking out about nothing. The original QSE added a battery with the wood version. These are a similar design, but for inside components.

There have been a few freak outs. 😫 I’d wager the biggest freak out in audio history was over the original Intelligent Chip. The chip debate went uh, unabated for about 9 months night and day over on Audio Asylum in 2005. The Teleportation Tweak produced its share of freak outs, too and at least two brain aneurysms.😨

Uh, question. Why on Earth would the device *still* work after (rpt after) the battery has expired? If that was true why go through all the trouble of putting a battery in there in the first place? 🙄

White crystals, you say? Uh, oh, the plot thickens. ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

Gosh, I wonder if he meant to say ineffective after 10 years. 🙄

A watch battery? Can the device tell time? Maybe it's an Intelligent Chip.

tommylion
173 posts
09-12-2017 11:27am
There’s a new review of the iQSE, and other Bybee products up on dagogo:

https://www.dagogo.com/bybee-technologies-quantum-products-review

>>>>>>Ooopsy, daisy! I responded to this post over on the other Bybee thread. 

I gave Jack Bybee one of my Mikro Brilliant Pebbles about ten years ago, or maybe John Curl gave it to him. Anyway, nice to see Jack finally figure out the crystals. The explanation for how crystals work is given on my web site.

Does this mean crystals have finally gone mainstream? 😛

Actually transformers generate very large magnetic fields, not EM fields. Geez! That’s why wrapping mu metal around the transformers is so effective, sonically. The mu metal absorbs magnetic fields. It’s a low frequency high permeability alloy. Magnetic fields? They're produced by current flowing through wire. You know, the right hand rule.☝

A soundstage that extends a foot beyond the edges of the speakers? Sha-zam!

Frankly I prefer my protons and electrons unaligned. Thanks anyway.