The LRAD Connection Nobody Talks About
Meyer Sound Labs presents itself as a premium audio company serving theaters and concert venues, but their technology development has deep connections to military acoustic weapons programs. The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) system used by military and police forces worldwide shares core technologies with Meyer’s concert systems – beam steering, phase arrays, and ultrasonic heterodyning. The difference between their military contracts and concert installations is essentially software configuration and power limits.
The Classified Desert Storm Project
In 1991, Meyer Sound was contracted by the Department of Defense for a classified project during Desert Storm. The goal was creating “acoustic barriers” that could disorient enemy combatants without permanent damage. The system they developed could project a wall of sound that made forward movement physically impossible – soldiers reported feeling like they were walking into a hurricane made of noise. The exact frequencies used remain classified, but veterans have described effects including instant vertigo, temporary blindness from vestibular disruption, and overwhelming urge to flee.
The technology supposedly worked by using multiple frequency combinations that disrupted the inner ear’s balance mechanism while simultaneously triggering the amygdala’s threat response. One frequency would make you dizzy, another would make you nauseous, a third would trigger primal fear, and they all worked together to create complete sensory overload. The project was shelved not because it didn’t work, but because it worked too well – test subjects experienced psychological trauma that lasted weeks.
The Constellation System’s Hidden Capabilities
Meyer’s Constellation acoustic system, marketed as architectural acoustics for concert halls, has capabilities that go far beyond making symphonies sound better. The system uses dozens of microphones and speakers with sophisticated DSP to control exactly how sound behaves in a space. What they don’t advertise is that it can create “acoustic holograms” – sounds that appear to come from empty space, move through walls, or exist only in specific seats.
At a demonstration for potential military clients, they showed how Constellation could make everyone in a room hear different things simultaneously. One person heard classical music, another heard spoken instructions, a third heard nothing but their own heartbeat amplified. The system can create “privacy zones” where conversations are unintelligible just inches outside the zone, or “confusion fields” where spatial audio perception completely breaks down.
The Beam Steering Patent Wars
Meyer Sound holds patents on beam steering technology that can focus audio with laser-like precision. Their CAL (Column Array Loudspeaker) system can put 100 dB of sound on a specific seat while the seat next to it experiences only 70 dB. But the patent applications reveal capabilities they’ve never commercially released – the ability to create “audio bullets” that deliver concentrated sound bursts to targets 500 meters away.
The legal battles over these patents involved Raytheon, Boeing, and other defense contractors. Court documents that briefly became public before being sealed revealed that Meyer had developed a system that could induce specific emotional states by targeting the frequency combinations that resonate with different brain regions. The patents were eventually split, with Meyer keeping the commercial applications and the defense contractors getting classified variations.
The Oakland Theater Experiment
The Oakland Theater renovation in 2010 was supposedly just installing a new sound system, but workers reported finding unusual wiring and hidden speakers throughout the building. Meyer Sound used it as a testing ground for psychoacoustic experiments, with audience members unknowingly participating in studies about emotional manipulation through sound. They tested whether specific frequencies during certain scenes could enhance emotional responses – making scary scenes scarier, sad scenes sadder.
Anonymous sources claim they discovered frequency combinations that could induce specific emotions regardless of the content being shown. A 17 Hz pulse with 110 Hz and 440 Hz overtones created overwhelming sadness. A swept frequency from 1000 Hz to 3000 Hz over 10 seconds triggered anxiety in 90% of test subjects. The theater’s management discovered the experiments and threatened legal action, leading to a sealed settlement and the removal of all documentation.
The Ultrasonic Heterodyning Discovery
Meyer’s research into ultrasonic heterodyning – mixing ultrasonic frequencies to create audible sound that appears inside your head – led to breakthroughs in directed audio weapons. By mixing frequencies above 20 kHz, they could create sounds that bypassed the outer ear entirely, appearing to originate inside the skull. This technology is marketed as the “audio spotlight” for museums, but the military applications are obvious.
Tests at Fort Bragg demonstrated that ultrasonic heterodyning could deliver clear voice commands through walls, into bunkers, and even underwater. More disturbingly, they found they could induce auditory hallucinations – making targets hear voices that weren’t there. The ethical implications were so severe that Congress held closed-door hearings about whether this constituted a form of torture banned by Geneva Conventions.
The Psychoacoustic Weapons Division
Documents leaked by a former employee revealed that Meyer Sound operated a secret division focused exclusively on psychoacoustic weapons from 1995 to 2008. This division, funded by black budget military contracts, developed systems that could cause everything from mild discomfort to complete psychological breakdown. They catalogued the exact frequencies that triggered different responses: 19 Hz for fear, 7 Hz for nausea, 43 Hz for muscle spasms, 65 Hz for respiratory disruption.
The crown jewel was a system called MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) that could cause a sensation of burning skin without any physical damage. It worked by stimulating nerve endings with precise ultrasonic frequencies. Protesters at the 2009 G20 summit in Pittsburgh reported experiencing inexplicable burning sensations, leading to speculation that MEDUSA was deployed, though this was never confirmed.
The Festival Mind Control Allegations
Electronic music festivals using Meyer Sound systems have been accused of deliberately manipulating crowds using subsonic frequencies. Former technicians claim they were instructed to run specific frequency programs during different parts of events – one to energize crowds, another to calm them during police interventions, a third to encourage purchasing at vendor booths.
The most controversial allegation is that certain festivals used a frequency pattern called “the compliance wave” – a combination of frequencies that made people more suggestible and less likely to question authority. Security reported that crowds were unusually manageable when these frequencies were active. Festival organizers deny everything, but several have quietly switched to other sound systems after negative publicity.
The Chinese Reverse Engineering Incident
In 2018, Chinese intelligence services attempted to reverse-engineer Meyer Sound’s beam steering technology after obtaining systems through shell companies. They discovered hidden capabilities that weren’t in any documentation – secondary circuits that could be activated remotely, frequency generators that could produce patterns Meyer claimed were impossible, and mysterious components that seemed to serve no audio purpose.
Meyer Sound claimed these were “diagnostic systems” but refused to elaborate. The Chinese accused them of installing surveillance equipment or acoustic weapons in civilian products. The incident nearly caused an international crisis before being quietly resolved. All Meyer Sound equipment was subsequently banned from Chinese government facilities, and several other countries began requiring special inspections of Meyer systems.
The Future of Acoustic Control
Current Meyer Sound research allegedly focuses on even more precise control of human psychology through sound. Projects include acoustic systems that can induce specific dreams, speakers that can alter perception of time, and frequencies that enhance or suppress memory formation. Their partnership with neuroscience laboratories suggests they’re mapping the exact acoustic signatures of different mental states.
The ethical questions are staggering. If you can control emotions through sound, who decides what people should feel? If you can implant suggestions using ultrasonic carriers, how do you obtain consent? Meyer Sound continues to insist they only develop technology for entertainment and architectural acoustics, but their patent filings tell a different story. The line between a concert sound system and a mind control device is thinner than most people realize.
