Build a Faraday cage around your equipment.


I just realized that there is an abundance of Material (cloth) that has EMF blocking characteristics on the market now. Considering it is a woven material flexible and can be easily sewn by ordinary means, this could easily be used to create a simple form of a faraday cage around your high end stereo equipment. They even have Curtains for your windows. I intend to experiment with it and have already started looking at potential heat problems and effectiveness of ONLY a partial cage, because of course you want to leave much of the Front and back of your equipment open. I believe it has a lot of potential in stopping interference between individual pieces of your equipment package and especially for those who like me have their setup contained in a rack/structure of some kind. There are numerous places that can be approached like even laying a sheet of the material over cable runs to keep out stray signals. This can be done in simple ways or you could get very deeply involved in configuring everything in the system to incorporate the blocking material. Some simple places it could be utilized are simply a sheet of it placed on a shelf before placing the equipment on it or as a simple barrier between pieces of equipment.  Attention to the types of material should be considered a high level of concern as the different types have different characteristics. Has anyone else experimented with this?

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Phone Faraday pouch

One reviewer (5th on down) mentioned that this Faraday pouch blocked radio cell signals but not Wi-Fi. Thought I heard somewhere that Wi-Fi might be more problematic than radio for sound systems.

I make and sell orgonite which does not "block" EMF so much as it attenuates it. Some of my customers who place the "pucks" too near routers find that it can interfere with their wireless transmission, but it has never interfered with my audio system as far as I can tell.

Whether or not this makes any difference in audio I cannot say, but it definitely makes a difference for people who are electrosensitive, and I have over 2,000 sales of this stuff over the past 9 years. In a photo I have posted on this site about audio rack construction there is visible some of my orgonite pucks sitting atop a CD transport:

Puck

And this below is my website. This may look like shameless self promotion of a hobby business of mine, but it may be entertaining for the woo-haters here on Audiogon.

Orgonia Gifter