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    LOL, surely it's a joke. How do they keep a straight face when selling these dots?
     
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    penance Arrogant Cock

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    Really.


    I piddle on my compost heap twice weekly, it really helps with the depth of soundstage, tho me spuds taste funny
     
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    Have you tried them ?..............

    How do you know they don't work ?

    Would you put your next pay check down against the fact that these "dots ! do not work as described?


    There is a bit of anecdotal evidence that there is some thing in this...........

    If you can locate nodes and anti nodes, point treatment may work better than total room treatments.

    That said prices for these dots are so high they are after one purchase only.

    There are other refferences

    www.arduman.com/aa/Sayfalar/thorsten/thorsten.htm

    "The room has been extensively treated with 1" white felt disks"

    www.belt.demon.co.uk/newsletter/vol0001/vol0001.html

    http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/search.mpl?forum=tweaks&searchtext=dots
     
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    I have a friend who is heavily into room acoustics (http://www.soundscapes.nu/). He was VERY suprised to see that the room tunes from Harmonix were working AT ALL, let alone work reasonably well. And he is a very NON-audiophile, practical guy... So these Marigo guys might well have something here, though I have more trust in Harmonix.

    The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the eating is what most people do not dare, mocking random manufacturers is of course much easier.
     
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    there is a speaker manufacturer i can;t remember which but it may be neat or totem or someone like that who use these or similar things on their speakers.
     
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    Totem... Vincent Bruzesse is a bit 'psychic' (paranormally gifted). He thinks it improves the sound, as well as the 'beaks'. Hmmmm... At least his speakers sound good... :)
     
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    well,. who#'s gonna buy them to let us know if they work then..? :)
     
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    i currently i have dots in the rug in fron of my speakers. on closer inspection they seem to be ground in raisens - something to to do with my little girl.
     
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    They rely on the simple fact that there really is one born every minute - and that a high percentage of these become audiophiles.
     
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    Are you including.. Thorsten Loesch... in that comment ?
     
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    bottleneck talks a load of rubbish

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    tones compulsive cantater

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    Wouldn't know Thorsten Loech if I fell over him, I'm afraid, but if he believes in dots, yes.
     
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    They are a group of gentlemen in deepest darkest Kent that subscribe to this 'range of products', I've had it demostrated to me on more than one occasion (By a (Pete) Belt master grade 5)
    I have to admit when he started 'twirling his newly open j-cloth at the speaker driver' I was some what perplexed :D
    There are some forms of voodoo that are just a planet too far :p
     
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    You included some of Peter Belt's stuff in your earlier links. Surely no one, not even the most gullible tweakers, take him seriously? :eek:

    Michael.
     
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    garyi Wish I had a Large Member

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    Mabye Zanash does?

    For people of this world, this is bullshit designed for the hardend saddo, that simple wires and connectors no longer touches their dots.
     
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    I think some have dots for brains... ;)
     
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    If by reputation you do not know .....Thorsten Loesch .....then you need to educate yourself.
     
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    Why?
     
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    :ffrc:

    Do these go on the same shelf as the IntelliChip and the ShunMook "tuning" pucks then :D

    I've found, if I go for a really big cr*p in between listening, everything sounds and feels much better.

    Only $149 per crap.....who wants to buy a piece?
     
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