For clarification, I own a Dell Systems GS-Pro, not a Pro-4. The GS-Pro did, indeed, contain a simple 555 oscillator and did, indeed, contain a speaker coil glued inside a Radio Shack potentiometer casing. It also came with a near-self-destructing accessory box which directly shorts out the battery. At some point in the past, Dell admitted to making the GS-Pro himself.
So, are those who claimed that I found this stuff in a Pro-4 all liars, or simply mistaken? Over the years, Dell has consistently chosen verbal attacks and misdirection over honesty and integrity. It stems from the kind of business he's in, where direct honesty is not an option. Over the years, I've watched classic scams such as magnetic therapy, homeopathy, and magic water get called out by skeptical health professionals, and the response from the people running the scams is to either completely ignore the skeptics as if they don't exist, or use name-calling and misdirection in an attempt to put the skeptics on the defensive.
Most LRL manufacturers have chosen the former. Dell has chosen the latter. You might get snippets of truth from Dell ("That speaker coil did not come from a Pro-4") but you will never get "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Dell can't afford to do that. And, like the scams mentioned above, one thing you can count on is that none of the LRL manufacturers will ever ever ever get involved in objective testing of their product, if they truly understand how their product works. And Dell knows.
- Carl
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