SCP-???? and the device it was found plugged into during the police raid. The speaker device appears to exhibit no abnormal effects.
Item #: SCP-????
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-???? is to be kept in at least 4 soundproof boxes, one inside of the other. No personnel are to approach within 2 metres of the container, with the exception of testing purposes. All personnel within 10 metres are recommended to wear a form of sound dampening device around or inside their ears. SCP-???? is currently held within site 91-M.
Object Description: SCP-???? is a device of unknown origin, but appears to be an iPod. Despite this appearance, various scans have proven this device to be at least 2,000 years old. The device has the capability of playing music that reflects the emotions of the nearest person, affecting all people nearby. This music influences the limbic systems of nearby humans to match the emotions of the melody played, essentially amplifying and projecting the emotions of the nearest human. It is worth noting that this also affects the nearest person, which has been shown to cause an emotional feedback loop. It is worth noting that only the skip and rewind buttons work, switching the person whose emotions are amplified forward and back again, respectively.
SCP-???? came into the Foundation's custody in 2013, after accusations that a popular singer had drugged their audiences to feel the emotions behind songs more strongly. A brief raid from local police revealed SCP-????'s presence, causing the Foundation to confiscate the item. The singer had plugged SCP-???? into a powerful set of speakers, which had amplified the object's effective radius by at least 1000%.
Testing run by Dr. ███████ has revealed that it takes between 45 minutes and 1 hour for most D-class personnel to escalate their emotional status from being described by the on-site therapist, Dr. ████████████ from "slight sadness" to "nearly suicidal". When subjects have been asked about the experience, most either refuse to talk or describe a feeling of "having their thoughts sucked of them and having them used to crush them". This is also true for the inverse, taking 45 minutes to 1 hour to escalate from "feeling good" to "euphoric happiness".
Another test run by Dr. ███████ had a D-class test subject have their temporal lobe surgically removed for the test. When brought into contact with SCP-????, all personnel within a 10-metre radius were observed to have their limbic systems temporarily shut down. Those who did not remove themselves from the area within 2 minutes were unable to recover their emotions and were subsequently removed from the site.
At the time of writing, all attempts to disassemble the device have been thwarted, as those charged with exhibit extreme signs of guilt, and attempt self-termination. So far, only the site's electrical engineer, ███████ █████████, has been able to be returned to service after extensive therapy. He has currently been assigned with maintenance of the object, after showing an intense caring for the device and furthermore, immunity to the device's effects. It is unknown if the care shown by ███████ █████████ is itself an effect of the device or an aftereffect of the guilt during the disassembly.
Addendum-????-01: Brief cross-testing with various SCPs with observed psychic effects has revealed that SCP-???? is, on contact, able to amplify the effects of some SCPs. Due to the danger of this, it is recommended to avoid allowing this item to make contact with Psychic SCPs.
Addendum-????-02: Due to the nature of SCP-????'s amplification methods, an ingot of SCP-148 has been requested for cross-testing purposes.
Addendum-????-03: Therapist Dr. ████████████ believes that SCP-???? can be used to partially communicate with sentient SCPs with no method of communication. Research is currently underway for a potential candidate to attempt communication with.






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