Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[AbundanceCH]

"less loops necessary per day"

This is one of my challenges when looking at some of the more extensive subliminals available now. Even if I were to listen overnight, I'm not in my bedroom long enough for ex. LTU or MHS in their current gen. Less loops for the same or greater effect is a huge step forward.

That's the goal.  Let's hope I did it.

If the length of monthly usage is cut will you upgrade some of the current titles that require very long time commitments? For example ME requires 9 months.  UMS requires 12 months.

No.  I will not.  In spite of the fact that even I would like to see UMS v3 in 5.8G or later, UMS may never be built again (and certainly not until after 6G arrives in any case) based on how difficult and time consuming it was to build last time.  And ME will not be built again until after we have had at least one full run through and we know if it actually does anything... and even then, may not get an upgrade until 6G.

Easy money maker?  There is absolutely nothing left about building subliminals at this level that is easy.

I'm sure there is something else I can build after NSLW that would be much more interesting.

Some of this doesn't make financial sense since you have spoken a lot about money issues in recent times..

It doesn't make sense to have any sub have such long listening times from 6 to 9 months in your store if the tech is there to reduce that (i'm talking about single stagers and assuming 5.8G does what you say it looks like it will do).  For one that limits the amount of subs people can buy in a given year thus reducing your income and it deters new users from buying your stuff.  Most people don't want to spend 6 to 9 months listening to a single stager (except us hardcore IML customers).

I understand your reasoning for not wanting to rebuild subs like UMS and LTU which are multi stagers but single stage subs that's another story.  I see a lot of threads about OF so it doesn't make sense to have such a popular sub stay the way it is when listening times could be reduced and then those customers could be free to buy more subs during the year.  What would make you money money and benefit you more and your customers? Building NSLW or upgrading OF or ME to reduce their listening times?

This is just my opinion but i'm looking at it from a point of view of what makes more business sense and what's better for customers of IML. Let's say 5.8g reduced listening times by 2 months and also reduce hourly usage of your best selling sub. You would have to be crazy not to upgrade it I think considering many current users would upgrade, and it would be more attractive to new users due to reduced numbers of months/daily hours it has to be used.

I'm not saying spend all your time upgrading subs but maybe for every 2 new subs you build you upgrade an old one.

Just my thoughts no offense intended. I'm happy for the latest developments and I hope it all works as you suspect.