How can Acoustic Revive RR-888 produce 7.83hz?


This is not meant to be a bashing post. I want to try and understand this device as I find it very interesting. I have no scientific background. I presume that 7.83hz is transmitted as a wave. I have previously gone to a professional sound room that was designed by world famous studio designer Tom Hidley to cleanly produce 20hz. Firstly the room needed to be of a certain dimension (which was bigger than my listening room). Secondly the speakers were large Kinoshita studio monitors with dimensions of 1050/1300/800cm with each monitor having 2 large bass drivers of some 16-18 inches in diameter. They were driven by Kinoshita-JMF HQS4200UPM mono power amps which each delivered 450w into 8ohms.

Presumably you would need a very large room to produce a 7.83hz wave? To quote from the Acoustic Revive website, "...we developed and manufactured a device to generate the 7.83Hz electric wave artificially, the Ultra-low Frequency generator RR-888". Am I missing something fundamental? How can such a small device generate such a wave in my 22x12x10 foot listening room?

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Showing 1 response by djohnson54

I don't own this device nor have I heard it. I do remember reading a review of it a while back - mildly interesting.

My thought is that it's not that hard to make a surface (diaphragm) vibrate at 7.83 Hz and this will "attempt" to create a 7.83 Hz waveform. Just because the wave cannot fully propagate in a given space doesn't meant that it's not having an audible effect in that space. If the company claims that there is a complete 7.83 Hz wave in that room then they need to go back to physics class. Also remember though that the lower the the frequency, the more acoustically transparent walls would be to that wave.

Note that this doesn't address the amplitude of the wave produced. The size of the "driver/diaphragm" would directly impact that (as was indirectly pointed out by Bluewolf in the OP). So, even though the wave will propagate outside of the room, I doubt the amplitude of the wave would be very large.