has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak


Lloyd Walker has a new tweak: the black diamond crystal for cartridges. It's a crystal you put on either the tonearm or the cartridge that [I KID YOU NOT] transforms the sound!
I know, I know, [don't ask me to explain it,I can't] it can't be all that, but i'm tellin you try this thing [if you don't like it you can return it] for less than half the price of a really good cartridge you get A REALLY GOOD CARTRIDGE!!!
Please post your experience
perditty

Showing 2 responses by john_tracy

I cannot believe the amount of B.S. that is passed off as science on this forum. Dover, where did you learn your science? I learned to do science as a grad student at Stanford. Maybe you could provide a derivation of this effect you claim starting from Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic radiation covers a wide spectrum from ultra low frequency radio waves all the way up to the most energetic gamma rays. What is your proposed method of interaction? Absorption? Scattering? Since we are dealing with a collection of atoms in a crystal lattice a good grounding in Statistical Mechanics would be helpful. One would need to write out the partition function for such a collection to predict its behavior. As far as emitting electromagnetic radiation, that requires an oscillating dipole. Whether that is a radio antenna attached to a transmitter or a nitrogen molecule in the atmosphere whose electron cloud is polarized by the oscillating electric field (Raleigh Scattering, why the sky is blue) generated by light from the Sun. Maybe the crystal converts vibrations infrared radiation (heat). But so would a lump of coal. If you wish to make scientific claims you need to be specific and not just spout a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
More mumbo jumbo and hand waving and still no real mechanism for the alleged effect. In things audio I'm willing to be a happy empiricist and accept something that enables my system to sound better. But to make pseudo scientific claims as to why that is so is just so much B.S.