LessLoss BlackBody: improve your sound for just $959 and your sense of reason

The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it's hard to say if we've ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of metal that designer Louis Motek says "takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction" to improve your stereo's sound quality by simply being in the same room. How? "Your gear's radiation is transformed into room-temperature blackbody radiation." Yeah -- and that's just the tip of this crazy iceberg. We can't say we believe it for a second, but LessLoss says that the BlackBody is so effective at altering "electromagnetic ambient conditions" that the quality improvement is obvious to "even non-audiophiles" listening to "a noisy home PC playing through your average SoundBlaster." That sounds like a challenge to us -- hit us up, LessLoss.

[GarySh Posted Nov 25th 2009 8:37PM]

I googled the designer's name and came up with a review of another fine product of theirs - the $1149 POWER CORD !!!

http://www.stereotimes.com/acc091709.shtml

[WM87 Posted Nov 25th 2009 9:15PM]

Event Horizon comes to mind.

[BikingRadio Posted Nov 25th 2009 9:23PM]

I'll take ten. According to their literature, 'the more the merrier.'

[ye lens Posted Nov 25th 2009 9:52PM]

@cherryboom

What college are you studying Swedish Physics at? I hear it's a fascinating field.

[Ethan Posted Nov 25th 2009 10:01PM]

It looks a bit like a Rorschach inkblot, which is probably apt.

[AbeFroman Posted Nov 25th 2009 10:57PM]

A quote taken from the inventor's website where he attempts to explain how his "invention" works,

"The amazing thing is that once all high frequencies are absorbed (higher than radio), the subjective experience is one of a substantially lowered noise floor, even though this is impossible to measure in the audio. It is the clarity of signal and ease of sonic appreciation and cognition which makes the Blackbody so impressive."

Note the key phases: "subjective experience" and "impossible to measure". In other words, It works because I say it does a.k.a. the placebo effect.

[Oliver in Seattle Posted Nov 25th 2009 11:06PM]

"It is marginally smaller in weight and size than two bars of gold."
The expected familiarty of their clients with the weight and size of two bars of gold speaks volumes.

[Trav261 Posted Nov 25th 2009 11:46PM]

Overpriced. Overkill. Excess.

[KirinIchiban Posted Nov 26th 2009 1:28AM]

Why is this not a crapgadget?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 26th 2009 1:32AM]

...and you can also purchase 50lb bags of manure at the local greenhouse. At least it serves a genuine purpose, and that's no B.S. I swear!

OK, actually it's pure B.S.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 26th 2009 1:35AM]

If I ever have a black body in my living room I hope it is Halle Berry's!