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Daniel Hertz-Anton speakers
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The first one looks like it's covered with Polartec fleece
, but I think that second image nails it pretty well! 
Orange Shag carpeting would've been just a notch cooler (in retrospect)... Just the loudspeakers for that 1974 Chevy van.
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Oh, and maybe it's just me... but Sica sounds like the name of a 1980s pR0n star...
or... you know... so I have heard...
or... you know... so I have heard...
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Just commenting to rant that Mark Levinson is the only person I can think of in the audio space that takes "snake oil" back to its original meaning as a sham health tonic, and in the process (IMO) rises to the level of criminality. Telling people audio gear can help with their kidneys or diabetes or whatever is lower than low.
And the waveguide on that thing looks like it was designed in 15 minutes, then CNC'd from pine by someone as a placeholder until they could finish the final design, then spraypainted black. Or maybe 3D printed on a $120 printer. Is there really any reason to have sharp angles inside a horn like that, in 2025?
And the waveguide on that thing looks like it was designed in 15 minutes, then CNC'd from pine by someone as a placeholder until they could finish the final design, then spraypainted black. Or maybe 3D printed on a $120 printer. Is there really any reason to have sharp angles inside a horn like that, in 2025?
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As a universal, symbolic and frightening list of diseases, I use the following triad: schizophrenia, flat feet, worms.
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Speaking of cabinet finishes coverings coatings... I suppose I should acknowledge my own development exercises using cotton flannel. 
If he's done that he's a certified piece of shit.
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Umm... no... it is a black and white* photo my son took in his grad school days of a Jeffersonian (Jefferson-esque?) dome in a building at the University of Virginia.
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* I was gonna write "B&W", but I figured that would be too ambiguous at a forum like this in a loudspeaker thread.
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Let's just say the designs are interesting
We love double and triple (and more) meanings
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He did:
Expensive Audio & Medical Quackery: Mark Levinson promoting Daniel Hertz "C Wave Technology". And the Maria amps. [Including company response.]
A blog for audiophiles about more objective topics. Measurements of audio gear. Reasonable, realistic, no snakeoil assessment of sound, and equipment.
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It looks like they have pulled some of the health claims from the website (maybe they heard from the FDA after I reported them) but here's a paper where they try to build a case for health effects from a "study": https://danielhertz.com/images/cwave/Daniel Hertz C Wave testing Presentation ver 05052025 1-1 small.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOor8j2lYBkaM-SY-G2q0h819MVjwbG4Hz9gD4cMXP1aK-7E7wb4q
from this other doc on it:
THE THING IS, if you read the patent, "C-wave" is just their name for a DSP setup that adds a very short reverb and IIRC maybe some EQ to the audio. It's not NOT PCM nor is it NOT digital. It's normal PCM audio with a little special effect applied. Their claim of it being somehow different from digital is utterly bogus. It's just as digital as whatever they fed into it. it's like saying a hot dog is vegan because you put bacon on it, just a total non sequitur.
I feel that the entire thing is just totally fraudulent on a level you don't normally see even from the worst offenders in audio, and beneath any legitimate company.
Based on this quote from the C-wave app site, it doesn't even add the effect.
This is industrial grade concentrated snake oil.
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Does it subtly enhance it or does it not add effects? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, MARK.
Either way it's nuclear-grade snake oil for sure.
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"Original musical information - not sound effects" (it's sound effects.)
If there were significant musical information missing from digital tracks, it would be impossible to recover it, right? Like you can't just un-delete information you don't have. Not how reality works last time I checked.
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Or else it's collecting out there... somewhere... and one day the dam will burst open.
All.
Those.
Bits.
Oh the humanity.
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