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THE PROSONIC WALKMAN TESTS

The nearby Giant Tiger
Discount store was selling a new
Chinamade line of Prosonic Walkman's circ. 1994
which had such good sound quality I bought a pair out of grocery
money and did a series of tests using a settup created in the dining room
on the worktable also time shared for developing and upgrading the
Virus Alert anti virus software by Look Software. Basically
the tests consisted of seeing how well the unit's
speakers transponded in stereo and mono
working in detached mode in
open air resonances.







HEXAGON COLLARS

To give you
an idea of how small
these speaker faceplates are
I put hexagon shaped lock nuts on the
magnets to improve the faceplate sound production
which this did substantially. Hexagon lock nuts are found on the
back of any old TV or modern stereo or even computer device, for instance
the plug-in for earphone jacks on a large amplifier is cinched down
with a standard hexagon lock nut which easily screws off.
Among hexagon locknuts are different sizes and metals
some stainless steel others chrome and others a kind
of aluminum, and some brass. Small brass ones
work the best as enhancers for sonics, but the
brass ones I had were just a bit too small
to fit over the magnets so chrome nuts were
here experimented to see how much volume
could be increased through this tiny pair
of Prosonic speaker faceplates and
how much sound range, into base
for instance and also highhat,
which worked, I got both to
coax out finally, but not
until after also adding
cat whiskers to the
backs sticking out
in the air in a
tuneable way,
made of thin
brass jewellry
wire, moved around
through the air by careful
handling the cat whiskers could
suddenly open up audible fidelity and
sonic range when pointed just right, however
very hard to control in that anything moved elsewhere
in the environment of the room usually meant the cat whiskers had
to be re-tuned. In the above photos cat whiskers are not
yet used. Cat whiskers that worked best were wound
around the back (around the magnet) then came
down below and stuck out in the air
forward about 8 inches from
under the faceplate
one per each.







TRIPODS


Two items
of interest in this photo.
The hook-stand tripod supporting the speaker
faceplate in mid air is an engineering piece of art. 2 were made
by bending stiff brass rod of kind model airplane hobbyists use to link
remote control gears in toggle driven model airplanes. The first
tripod made worked the first time tried. The second took
days of fussing and rebending off and on to get it
to finally stay upright without keeling over or
its tripod legs to suddenly spread apart and
collapse. Man what a vexing problem,
made more the vex because the
first tripod made worked
perfectly the first
time tried.

EARPHONES


And also
can be seen the
pair of walkman earphones which
came with the Prosonic unit. These are by far
the best earplug earphones I have ever heard over the years.
Lucky me I have two pair. It happened that the first Prosonic unit bought
at the nearby Giant Tiger Store for $28 dollars didn't work, the
tape part jambed as soon as it was turned on and the cassette
tape had to be carefully extracted from the things 'teeth'
without breaking the tape, G R E A T care needed to
extract the irreplaceable cassette tape and its
music constantly being used for sonic tests.
Back at the Giant Tiger the assistent
manager hesitated not one second
when I handed it back, telling
me to pick another from the
shelf. Two days later I
happened to find the
earplugs from the
first unit, over
looked when taking
the junk unit back for
replacement. Back at the Giant
Tiger the assistent manager just said keep
them the defective unit is already on its way back to China.
That's how I have two pair of the best earplug earphones I have ever heard.
The only thing wrong with them is its either the same for everybody
or my ears but they are very hard to keep in place you can
wiggle and prod and finally get them plugged in to
yours ears in a way where suddenly the volume
and fidelity swells up by a factor of about
three. Then seconds or a moment later you
swallow or open your mouth even you just
stand up and the things sleaze right out
of focus producing once again just ordinary
sound. But when in focus they are almost as good as
a pair of full sized full ear covering headphones. Very good.
And impossible to stay in place in the best hot spot in your ear cavities.


CONCLUSION


Sound quality
in terms of range and
fidelity were tested as well as
volume and long distance carrying power.
Volume of the two original speaker boxes with the
unit cranked to full gain was enough to hear in another room
but was very narrowly clipped in terms of sound range (no base no high
end) and the usual poor squeezed compressed fidelity (no fun at
all to listen to). In open air resonances, the speaker
faceplates removed from their cases and dangled
from tripods at first had practically no
volume but after a couple of days of
playing around and making a few
modifications volume began
to appear as well as
cymbols and base
with enough
carrying
power to be
heard in another room
in full range and fidelity increased
from starting point by a factor of about four. The
experiments did not continue because most of the time was spent in
just trying to get an array assembled and to stay in one place.
The dangling faceplates tended to move on their own in
sonic impact vibrations, and any change in the
environment, no matter how slight, usually
required the settup to be re-tuned.
The point was the experiment
worked. The tiny things
produced useable
fidelity at a
usuable volume proving
that larger devices of similar kind
deliberately made could be a possible approach to
a superior sound generating system for sonic reproductions.


THE STANDS ARE MADE
OF TWO DIFFERENT METALS

The photo was
taken at night with
the dining room window's blinds
open causing a reflection
in the window.


Regards making
the brass tripods. The
idea was simple enough, one piece
of brass rod cut to length with a hook bent in
its end, the second piece cut to longer length and wrapped
at mid point around the hook area of the first piece so that both
pieces opened up forming a three-legged tripod. As already said, the first
made worked perfectly the first time tried whereas the second never
did work well, not at all when first assembled the dangling
weighty faceplate torqued causing the tripod to suddenly
twist sideways and collapse, and bend and probe with
needle plyers and twist and fold no matter the
attempt the tripod it would not hold upright
even on its own most of the time until at
last an adjust was made that allowed the
tripod to work but it would take about
15 minutes at least to get it into a
spread-legged poise with heavy
faceplate dangling.


The first tripod
could be set at any angle and
left there, two knits of different metal
frictioned together at the bend and loop in just the
right way to cause solidity, so that the legs could be bent open
at any angle, since two critical angles either 15 degrees
or 30 degrees worked best in keeping with the three
dimensional fractal geometry nature of sonic
open air resonances. The second tripod
did not seem to have two bits of
metal rubbing together so was
as loose as a clothes line
spring on a coat hanger.
Until finally I got
the thing bent
into a joke hook
but at least it stayed
upright thereafter. Reported only to
show that little came easy in these experiments.

PROSONIC GETTO BLASTERS (TWO)

There are two
other experiments also
seen in this photo. To the left
by the wall is a clock radio sitting facing
upright with a paper cutout on it. An experiment lasting
several days coaxed enough sound out of this radio to be heard out
in the front street, that's through the living room, down the corridor to
the front of the house, out the front door, alongside the two car
garage, and up the driveway to the front street. The sound
in the livingroom was appallingly barky and hard
but had highhat and cymbols, the difference
between the two clearly heard, as well
as some base no echoes or reverbs
but typical to what base you
hear in a cheap FM car
radio, all from a
single tiny
2 inch
tweeter.

GETTO BLASTER COUPLING

Second are Prosonic
getto blasters from China. These
turned up in the nearby Giant Tiger discount store
and for $59 produced enough sound through units turned on in
demo in the store for me to get interested. I ended up buying two,
two different models, one well made with short compact boxes
which produced a clear sound but was noticeably clipped
in range at the two ends (high and low), the other
a pair of taller column boxes with open ports
and rather chinzy manufacture nevertheless
producing a much roomier sound that had
both higher high frequency and base
but a sluggish unexcited stereo,
dull. Both came together as
a sonic resonance test
being driven by one
of the prosonic
unit's consuls.


BIRD'S EYE VIEW

The experiment rotated
through numerous embodiments to
finally settle with two of the boxes raised
on the bar and two on the ground sitting raised on six
sided ice cream soda glasses, where the experiments came to an
end, the problem being that coax and fuss could start to
get some very intriquing big range and power volume
stereophonically built up in an increasingly
large sound image balloon up in the air
dominating the livingroom when all
of a sudden one of the speaker
boxes would topple off the
soda glass, this happened
chronically for days,
fine tuning and placement
done just right to get the sound
to appear was just right for impact vibrations
to knock one of the boxes off a soda glass. It became a
Mexican standoff with no seeming solution and in boredom the tests
were abandoned. One very interesting event did occur
however, well worth reporting.


ELVIS PRESLY IN FULL ORCHESTRA STEREO


Elvis in the 50's
issued song after song in the
rock and roll venue usually heavy on guitar and
heavy on drums. One afternoon when sound was being enhanced in
a particularly advanced away using the Prosonic setup in the above photo
a tape was playing in mono (one channel feeding all four speaker
boxes in series) music also mono by Presly when all of a
sudden a second piece of music began to appear
out of the first and it turned out to be a full
scale symphony orchestra playing what
was weak background in the normal
78 platter recording sold in
record stores at that time,
now the orchestra became the
dominant image in the sound stream
it was mighty in huge stereo (albiet a bit loose
it floated around in and out of fidelities) the orchestra
musicians having the time of their lives playing in jazzy rockabilly
rhythms along with the score. It was to put it mildly an
incredible piece of music extremely likeable and
very very awesome to hear it appear out of
nowhere like that. In the original 78
RPM the orchestra was used as
filler very weak and in the
background just enough
to sweeten the music
a bit without you
knowing it was
there you would
not hear the sympany
orchestra which during the
Prosonic experiment suddenly was
tapped and opened up to become by far the
dominant sound stream supply well over the top
of the quitar and drums and of course the voice of Elvis.
If memory serves, it was the piece called 'Good Luck Charm'. For
sure this particular release was one of the first Presley's
that broke away from the hard noisy rock-a-billy beat
to a more melodious presentation, less flaying of
the loins when being recorded, you can suspect.


PIRATE FACTORY TAPE OF 50'S GOLDEN OLDIES

On that tape was
another piece of music
the classic 'Shaboom' from the
mid 50's revealed something else about
how music was being made in those days. Every single
note, every word, everything, was orchestrated and scored right
to the last beat, there was not a single aspect of that
song that was not tight head-in-the-vice at the
recording studio end of things, the entire
piece was a manufactured product put
together in pieces rather than
a piece of music played by
musicians and sung. You
could hear the way
the song was
patched
together
piece by piece
as plain as day, in
this particular sonic stereo
resonances settup using the two Prosonics.


But, like
I say, needs folded
together with the obvious, because,
for a fact just at the point when the real goodstuff
started to appear in a full range stereo, one of the speaker boxes
would topple off its soda dish support. No other supports offered that kind
of sound, and nothing was found that could keep the boxes in place,
tape on the bottom snuffed goodstuff, for instance. The
Prosonic experiment was dissolved, all of the
Prosonic clutter moved into a cardboard
box labelled 'Prosonic'. Actually
by this time it
was also known that an
end point was near the Prosonics
could only do so much and go no further,
they had not enough power to produce high fidelity.

THE BAFFLING ERA

Two clock motor
pulsed timers (sonic disrupters)
can be seen in this picture, one on the cross
beam, the other on the floor behind. The cross beam is a
lightweight art wood frame with stretched canvas, a center piece
holding together three other canvass pieces on art wood frame comprising
an office wall sized piece of modern art, too big to display in
the house, the orange cross piece turned out to be an
ideal support beam, and then what do you think
happened, later, the move from East
Ottawa to South Ottawa the cross
beam disappeared it is no
where to be found.

The sound of the
two Prosonics when first
built up into sonics was very harsh
and barky with unpleasant sharp spikes throughout
the sound range. To try and curb this side effect baffles were
tried. It started with a couple of pieces of ordinary kitchen sink scrub
pad, and expanded to where a search of over 6 stores led to a
selection of many different kinds of material, in theory
supposedly the same thing but in fact each kind
different in grade and thickness of web,
including packages from dollar stores.
Aftermath of baffle tests are still
being used as kitchen scours, and
still plenty to go circ. 1997
before all the scours are
used up.


The baffles, starting with
the above photo, expanded to include
pieces of furnace filter of different kinds and
thicknesses, cut in half, then also stripped in half since
half thickness turned out to work better, almost every corner or wall
in the main floor of the house had a piece of baffle leaning
against or into it, supported by thin bamboo garden
stakes to hold it upright. The baffle era
ended when a new arrangement for
the four Prosonic speakers
was found, very close
together only inches
apart a tower box
and small box on
each side of a stereo
point of center. The sound was
much more user friendly and easy to control
so out came the baffles, every last piece, into a carboard
box and put in storage. The close together speakers were then found to
work even better with one of the boxes of each left/right side
raised in the air on support by ice cream soda glasses
which were six sided and bought at the local Sally
Ann for 25 cents each. Oh roar of teeth
grinding, the boxes would not stay
on the soda dishes the moment
deep base resonances got
started a moment later
one or the other
speaker box
would
topple off
the dish and
nothing could keep
them on. The dishes had
frilly six sided tops, the bottoms
of the plastic boxes were smooth. The boxes
glided around almost friction free on the frills. Oh
also there was nothing else to be found that supported the
boxes at the right height to produce strong resonances, the pair
of boxes so close together two on each side of a stereo meridian resonanated together producing a superceding sound neither could produce on their
own which is why such deep strong resonances from such
tiny flimsly speaker shells

TOTAL PROJECTION BEYOND SOURCE

Its too bad
this photo is so
grainy because of what it
shows. Featured is an early model of
a carry-around portable in a leatherette case
very common at one time, this oldie bought for $2 bucks
one summer afternoon at a neighbor's yard sale. Getting it home
and plugging it in and, it didn't work. Batteries couldn't
work because its inners had been pillaged or ruined
somewhere in the past. There is super tiny
loose wires sticking up all over the
place not attached. One turned
out to be ariel because a
piece of long speaker
lead bound to it
resulted in
some audible
play on one FM channel
only. So here was a creative experimental
challenge, could room tuning sonics be used to coax something
listening out of this wreck and it turned out the answer was yes. In fact
a description of what a witness heard best describes the result.
The witness standing in the kitchen doorway facing into
the livingroom a weak but clearly audible giant
sound balloon hanged up in space over the
center of the hexagon array and back
into deep space behind the TV.





The witness assumed that of
course both the Prosonic
getto blaster units
were working in a
surround sound or
quadrophonic experiment
but this was not the case to make
the point the plugs of both Prosonics were
held up in the air. When the witness was brought forward
nothing happened until coaxed to bend forward toward the open box
on the ground whereupon about a foot and a half away the entirely of the
giant sound balloon suddenly disappeared and all of the sound
swooped down into the box, suddenly so weak that the
witness had to get down on the floor and cock an
ear right to the box to hear anything, a weak
almost unhearable high pitched sound that
had vague semblence to the boogie band
just playing at a low comfortable
volume. In rising and stepping
back suddenly swoop from out
of the box suddenly emerged
the giant sound balloon again
and resumed position occupying space
up in the air in the whole latter half of the living
room and through the corner wall beyond. The experiment
object had started out to see if sonic resonances could produce volume
and ended up as a complete sonic projection demonstration, full
stereo and low base to high cymbols in a giant sound balloon
in location not remotely connected to the sound generating
source nor even remotely connected to the generator's
actual output heard close. Once again the quality,
fidelity it was not Tanoy speaker company does
not have to take down its shingle this was
not easy listening music it was distorted
throughout and even large sections of music
came and went randomly as the band played. Forgiving
the flaws, the feat was in producing a sound that could be
heard at once in all other rooms of the house main floor, via a
sound generating source so weak it could not be heard at all without
an ear only inches away, done by massive projection of sound
resonances into a complete other occurrence massively
amplified in a recurrence starting at least eight
feet away from source extending dozens
of feet into the distance.

This particular
experiment produced a
lot of worthwhile knowledge
about turning poor weak flubby rubber
gains into consolidated sonic
output that is valid.


HOUSE PLANT IN FRONT OF THE PATIO DOOR


Whether this plant
added or subtracted sonics
into the sound stream by its existence
in a mid point roughly 3/4 of the way back from the
rear living room wall to the patio door was never determined.
The plant did however make a constantly used reference
point. Many A then B listening tests took place
standing just behind and to the left of
it, facing in toward the far rear
wall of the living room. That
location was often the best
to accutely hear changes
by alterations in tests.











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