Originally Posted by
TomC
First of all, I've only been using my new Sirius unit (with the white-light frames) for ~ a week now. However, I am a long time Mindplace user and also own a Procyon (+4 months), a Proteus (+ 6 years) and a ThoughtStream (+5 years).
Originally I was going to just upgrade my old optional Proteus Tru-white glasses (ones with the big, pointy LED's) to the new ones with more comfortable frames, but for only ~$50 more I thought it would be fun to try out the Sirius unit (which included these glasses anyway).
Overall, I really love this little unit. It's so simple to use and works very well, esp. as an a Audiostrobe unit. I find that the AS CD's have much better light patterns with this unit compared to my others.
In closed-eye mode I don't personally see a lot of colours with any of my units but I do see, and like, the patterns best with the Sirius unit.
The only problem I've had is with the Manual mode (U2 mode). In this mode you just pick a pitch (before you start your session) and frequency (anytime). You can also use the middle button to go between 'Focus' (default) and 'Expand' modes anytime as well. The problem is that while the 'Focus' mode follows the entrainment beat chosen, the 'Expand' mode, in my opinion, does not.
In 'Expand' mode both the lights and noise pulses do an echo effect (I think that this is an 180 phase shift) and this essentially doubles the entrainment rate. So, if you thought you were doing a 10hz alpha session on focus mode and then went to expand mode, you were probably doing a 20hz beta session.
I have not tried very many in-built Sirius sessions but I suspect that these may do the same thing.
Maybe just a small flaw in the progamming?
Cheers,
TomC
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