Geoff Merrigan

managing director Tellurium Q Ltd

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@neiltyson Scientific methodology is based on questioning “the science” of the day and even going against the herd in many cases where breakthroughs have happened. Science in essence is not based on agreement but enquiry that does not and should not stop.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@TeslaBoomerMama @GaryMarcus I am always concerned at those that lean on qualifications to support their argument instead of actual reasoning or data. Nice response @TeslaBoomerMama

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

I have been to Egypt many times (Cairo, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Dahab, etc) and to the USA many times also (Florida, Texas, NY, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, California etc). Even though both countries are incredible and both peoples are warm and welcoming, outside of “some” of the US cities I feel far safer in the US than most of the places I have been in Egypt.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

Are you feeling OK Dr K-I-A? Seriously, did you actually read the rationalisation for the ruling? It was not just regarding gerrymandering it was the unconstitutional process and even the totally biased wording on the voting paper not to mention there were no maps to display to show the voters what was being proposed. I could be wrong but this is my understanding of why it was unconstitutional and got struck down by a court doing exactly what they were mandated to. And yes both sides gerrymander and that needs to stop for the sake of true democracy.

Take a breath, step back and try to look through a non-partisan lens.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

"Silver III is all about clarity and control. The most obvious shift compared with its predecessor is a lower noise floor, which sharpens image outlines and opens up the space between instruments. Transients start and stop with a crispness that makes timing feel more explicit, while complex mixes are untangled....
The sense of musical togetherness is really rather special, especially with the companion interconnects, and something that even some far pricier cables lack."

Jay Garrett, https://t.co/4huPDa3bnn

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

HiFi + Editors Choice Award for Tellurium Q cables part three !

Ultra Silver II XLR: “the cables ‘shimmer’ in all the right ways; the rolling off of a reverb tail is rendered perfectly…voices are expressive and natural”.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

HiFi + Editors Choice Award for Tellurium Q cables part two !

Black II XLR: "Black balances being neutral and transparent enough to bring out the best in middleweight audio, but not so open or shut in as to highlight its shortcomings or limit its potential to fly. It doesn’t matter why Black II works, what’s important is that it does. “It’s a cable to enjoy music by""

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

HiFi + Editors Choice Award for Tellurium Q cables:

Statement II XLR : "Everything that is good about your system is left alone to shine.”

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

“Two further swaps between the two sets of cables and I had heard enough to know that once again Tellurium Q had delivered on their stated intention, to take the good things about the Silver IIs and make them even better…

I know it is still only April, but I think I have just found one of my Products Of The Year: Bravo Geoff, mission accomplished.”

Chris Kelly, Chris Kelly, The Ear

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[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@TukiFromKL Surely that tax is a drop in the bucket compared to the apparent fraud and waste that is being “actively” allowed to happen in that state?

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

This would make so much sense to other studies in the past that indicated bird song being the most relaxing sound

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.

The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.

Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.

Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.

Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.

A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@orlaminihane @georgegalloway @RestoreBritain_ Some one like @ABridgen would make far more sense and be a far more ethical choice. Farage has no clue or perhaps he really is a snake?

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

Seems the Silver III is liked in Thailand: https://t.co/RlFxZXOtue

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@VigilantFox Yes, is the short answer to that one Bill. Same is true in Europe/UK so don’t feel alone in your concern.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@JamesMelville Didn’t Finland try this and found it was counter productive as children did worse with declining results after being given a tablet?

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@Rainmaker1973 Was this study split at all into those that breast feed and those that do not. My guess is that formula companies would not be happy with the results.

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

The Silver III has more stunning praise:

“The Silver III is leaving quite an impression here! Compared to the Silver II it is noticeably more nuanced and resolving, conveys space and separation more convincingly plus at the same time wonderfully smooth with a superbly weighted midrange. Wonderful!”

Ray Ng, Raindrop Audio, Singapore

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@sciencegirl It kinda worked out differently with the Capuchin monkeys when Yale carried out a similar experiment. It even led to prostitution!

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

What lovely comments from a long time owner:

“I would like to write to you to express my sincere gratitude for what your cables have done in my system.

Over time, I have installed Tellurium Q cables step by step throughout the whole chain of my equipment, and each of them has contributed something important. What began as a promising improvement gradually became something much more profound: a transformation of the entire musical presentation.

Thanks to your cables, I have finally been able to achieve in my digital system something I had long considered almost unattainable: a degree of realism, temporal continuity and musical flow that I had previously associated only with vinyl. For the first time in my life, my digital front end sounds truly believable to me, not only in terms of definition or scale, but also in terms of intimacy, coherence and naturalness.

What has impressed me most is that this was not a superficial change. It was structural. The piano changed, the orchestra changed, and above all the coherence of the sound changed. The music now flows in a way that feels natural and convincing, with a continuity that reminds me of vinyl, yet without losing the spaciousness and black background that good digital reproduction can offer.

This had been a long-standing hope of mine, one that I had almost given up on. I had reached a point where I no longer believed that digital sound could fully convince me in this way. Your cables helped me cross that final boundary.

I must also say that I never suspected phase distortion could be so relevant. Only now, after hearing the cumulative effect of addressing it throughout the entire signal path, do I understand how fundamental it is to musical realism.

So I simply wanted to thank you. Your work has allowed me to discover a level of digital playback I had never experienced before.

With gratitude and admiration,”

Alfredo Guerro, Spain

[Geoff Merrigan @MerriganGeoff]

@luna_am96 @elonmusk Not abolished globally, sadly I believe the practice is greater than it has ever been in terms of pure numbers and needs to be stopped.