The effects of dirty AC, and the benefits of cleaning it up, are actually incredibly easy and free for anyone to demonstrate to themselves. I figured this out by simple logic, tried it out, then proved it by double-blind testing. Takes 10 minutes, if that.
First, how I figured it out. RFI is radio frequency interference. Now one of my cool gadgets as a kid was a crystal radio. Run a wire, any old wire, connect to a crystal and with a rheostat (more wire wrapped around a toilet paper roll, a rheostat) you can tune the frequency and hear music. Or whatever. Minus the tuning what you got is noise. Same noise that is on every wire everywhere. Same noise that is on the wire connected to your stereo- including the wires connecting your components. Including even the wires WITHIN your components.
Which hints at why Synergistic Research Active Shielding works so well. But, different subject.
Okay. So if I am correct, simple test: flip off all the breakers. This electrically disconnects all the wire in all those circuits leaving only the system powered.
When I did this it was hard to believe how much better everything sounded. Not subtle at all. In your face better.
The cool thing is this is almost tailor made for double-blind testing. I had a friend over, asked his wife what is your favorite track? Would it be okay if I played it twice? In between I walked out to the garage and flipped the breakers. When I came back before I could even ask she jumped up and said what did you do it sounded SO MUCH BETTER! Normal woman. Not an audiophile. Hubby hadn't told her- he thought the whole idea was beyond crazy. Not her. She was blown away. Only thing she cared about, you are NOT flipping those breakers back on!
Now someone paying attention may wonder, what really happened? Was it RFI? Or EMF?
Well, I thought of that. EMF is generated by electronics running on the same circuit. Simple test, flip breakers only on circuits with things running. Then flip circuits on circuits with nothing running. Tried it. Even with nothing running, flipping those circuits off made a big improvement. The more circuits off, the better. Regardless of what is running or not. Tested this one on a different guys wife. Same result.
What this seems to me to demonstrate is that RFI is a bigger (more audible) problem than EMF. RFI of course is everywhere. The closer and more sources the worse, but its radio waves. Its everywhere. And eliminating it, or even reducing it some, makes a huge improvement.
Its easy. Its free. Its a way to test your ears. (If you can't hear what is obvious to ordinary random women.....) And its an easy, free baseline by which to judge the performance of all things claiming to clean up your dirty, dirty AC.
First, how I figured it out. RFI is radio frequency interference. Now one of my cool gadgets as a kid was a crystal radio. Run a wire, any old wire, connect to a crystal and with a rheostat (more wire wrapped around a toilet paper roll, a rheostat) you can tune the frequency and hear music. Or whatever. Minus the tuning what you got is noise. Same noise that is on every wire everywhere. Same noise that is on the wire connected to your stereo- including the wires connecting your components. Including even the wires WITHIN your components.
Which hints at why Synergistic Research Active Shielding works so well. But, different subject.
Okay. So if I am correct, simple test: flip off all the breakers. This electrically disconnects all the wire in all those circuits leaving only the system powered.
When I did this it was hard to believe how much better everything sounded. Not subtle at all. In your face better.
The cool thing is this is almost tailor made for double-blind testing. I had a friend over, asked his wife what is your favorite track? Would it be okay if I played it twice? In between I walked out to the garage and flipped the breakers. When I came back before I could even ask she jumped up and said what did you do it sounded SO MUCH BETTER! Normal woman. Not an audiophile. Hubby hadn't told her- he thought the whole idea was beyond crazy. Not her. She was blown away. Only thing she cared about, you are NOT flipping those breakers back on!
Now someone paying attention may wonder, what really happened? Was it RFI? Or EMF?
Well, I thought of that. EMF is generated by electronics running on the same circuit. Simple test, flip breakers only on circuits with things running. Then flip circuits on circuits with nothing running. Tried it. Even with nothing running, flipping those circuits off made a big improvement. The more circuits off, the better. Regardless of what is running or not. Tested this one on a different guys wife. Same result.
What this seems to me to demonstrate is that RFI is a bigger (more audible) problem than EMF. RFI of course is everywhere. The closer and more sources the worse, but its radio waves. Its everywhere. And eliminating it, or even reducing it some, makes a huge improvement.
Its easy. Its free. Its a way to test your ears. (If you can't hear what is obvious to ordinary random women.....) And its an easy, free baseline by which to judge the performance of all things claiming to clean up your dirty, dirty AC.