LessLoss Blackbody Annouced

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Say, is your home stereo system $1000 under budget and you can’t get the quality where you want it? If so, then the LessLoss Blackbody may  be for you. LessLoss, a manufacturer of audio equipment and cables, has begun selling the very ominous Blackbody, a device that will allegedly improve the sound coming from your stereo equipment by modifying the ambient electromagnetic phenomena inside your audio gear’s circuitry. Uh, what?

LessLoss’ website features a blog entry, one that’s six pages long, written by the designer of the Blackbody, Louis Motek, explaining the science behind the Blackbody and how it allegedly will help your audio quality. Lucky for you, your humble TFTS correspondent has read the entire thing and is ready to explain to you how it allegedly works in layman’s terms.

In the space every where around is is photonic energy we can’t see. This photonic energy interfers with the electrical workings of equipment and distrubs your sound quality. The Blackbody, effectively, sucks in the photonic energy, leaving your audio gear to run without  the extra photonic energy interfering with its operations. According to Motek’s explanation, any sort of shielding on your audio equipment couldn’t work (that would block out one wavelength on the light spectrum, don’t you know). As the blog says itself “Your audio gear will only play what you wish to hear. No noise. No clutter”.

Now, how exactly Mr. Motek achieves this with a tiny box is never explained. There are no diagrams, no pictures of the Blackbody unassembled. The blog features a fine scienitific exlpaination of what photon energy is (including some taped lecture from Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman), but its effectiveness has been questioned by some in the tech community.

At its steep price of $995, it’s a bit out of the ‘give it a try’ range for most consumers. I’m not saying it’s a scam, LessLoss appears to be a legitimate company and Motek’s science is sound, but the lack of an explanation of the Blackbody’s internal workings, and the steep price (the company encourages you to buy three – for best results), has me concerned. Still, if the technology works, this could change audio equipment forever.