QSA Stones

This is just another joke right? 🙄

How do you even come up with this drivel ?

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Is that glass, or synthetic corundum?

That’s the "red" rock you pay $86 for, the bit it’s glued to is the plinth for it. (you can have red, blue, or clear) how thoughtful of them as they say they all have different tonal characteristics
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As I said before they should follow the kidney stone arch2 passed

Cheers George

You guys crack me up lol. How do you even come up with this drivel ?

Oh my sides hurt. The material on here has been so great the past couple of days. These 2 take the cake: 1. Speakers are less important than your speaker cables, interconnects, and power cord. And 2. Buy expensive stone, put it on top of your amp/bash yourself in the face for paying $80 for a rock…A ROCK. Geology would tell you it’s millions of years of sediment / sand / pressure. Rock mean much more to audiofile tho. 

I did one search of the name, and it appeared to be a round black polished stone with a logo, but interestingly, there seemed to be a red faceted round stone turned upside down on its table glued to the front. Do they all have that? Is that glass, or synthetic corundum?

Man you’ve got to have stones to even Suggest and admit to trying that sort of utter bunk. Glue them to cable elevators but make sure they’re pure porcelain and white. Next it will be a variety of pies in aluminum plates starting with cherry because of the possibility of stones in red goop…..

Everybody must get stones.

Seriously,
Have any of you stoners tried an ordinary stone from your yard or from a mountain trip? Why wouldn't they have similar effects? Is it the paint? Have you cut open a stone to see what's inside? I can't believe I am asking such hard questions, seriously. 
Isn't there a song titled "I gave my sweetheart a cherry, she gave me a stone."
Not sure what that means, but it has to relate somehow. 

you might try the stones in the main circuit box as the power enters from the street.

Throw them in the hydro water dam that generates your ac juice at the start.

Cheers George

you might try the stones in the main circuit box as the power enters from the street.

As Thomas Tusser said in his poem…..

QSA Stones are one of a number of different things that do make a very noticeable improvement in sound quality, in spite of the fact no one has a very good explanation of how they work. There are many such things in this world. For example, no one has a very good explanation for why things that work bug certain people so much. Why don't they just pass on to the next thing? Why so triggered they have to make jokes about things they don't understand? No one knows. Yet the lack of a reason never stops them trying to not make their system better. So why should it stop us trying to make our systems better?

There is good reason to think things like this work some sort of effect on the field, which is after all the music signal. Most talk about electricity using the water metaphor, which is all well and good but hopelessly inadequate. Water in a pipe is not affected by radiation outside the pipe. Electricity in a wire most certainly is. This is in fact the principle upon which transformers, phono cartridges, amps and speakers all work.

If you look at any of the Synergistic Research fuses or AC outlets you will notice little blobs of goop stuck on there. They will tell you not to remove the blobs. If sold separately people would mock the blobs. Heck they mock the fuses, they are like Walt in Breaking Bad, "I am the one who mocks!" But it is no surprise the blob is one of the active ingredients.

QSA fuses, when you go up into the more expensive ones they have black stuff stuck on the outside. The more expensive the more black stuff. What is it? How's it work? WTF cares????!!! Are you trying to improve your system or make your own? If improve your system I strongly suggest ignore WHY and focus instead on WHAT. When people say they hear it, do you want to hear it? Or do you want to argue about why?

If you want to build your own then in that case I strongly suggest start reading mahgister. He is doing all the same stuff, only using easily obtainable inexpensive ingredients. Go ask him why. Me, I just want the sound.

I passed a qsa stone once. Damn near killed me.

Some technical explanations please!

The only technical info you’ll get on these, is. 😴


Cheers George

I’m ignorant about these things, so I gotta ask....what are they? They’re called "stones", but I assume there’s more to them than that? Are they magnets of some sort? Insulator shields? Some technical explanations please!

Pretty big. I went from Light Blue to Violet, that was insane! Frank has compared QSA Yellow with the new SR Purple and he slightly prefers Purple. I like Yellow enough to feel it is not worth the time and trouble. Now if Ted wants to send me one for free, hint hint, happy to compare! 

I would do it anyway but the darn things are different sizes. I don't mind different values for comparing but different sizes just don't fit. My general approach anyway is once one thing like this is elevated above stock then instead of looking to upgrade that one again it is better to look for something else. Like Pods, elevators, outlets, contacts, that kind of thing. The nice thing about QSA though at least via tweak geeks you can exchange for full value towards a better one. So many little things to consider....

I currently have QSA blue fuses in all of my components. How much of a jump is there going from blue to yellow?

Yes the Stones are quite good. If you want more I would try the QSA Light Blue fuse which is very similar results (if not more) but costs less than Stones.

I did try the colors individually on my power conditioner, with the first batch. I decided that I like all 3 together best. This effectively means I have to buy 6 at a time, as the individual colors are sold in packs of 2. Not complaining, though, the improvements are well worth the price to me. I’m thinking I may get a batch for my DAC and pre next. Then there are the output transformers on my amp… Don’t know if there’s a point where they become too much of a good thing, but, if they work similarly to the PPT stuff, maybe not.

I was also considering upgrading one of my blue fuses to yellow, but, for not much more, I got improvements in two components, instead of just one.

Mine are on the Blackhawk transformers. I first tried them one at a time. The colors are apt in that red is warmer, clear really is more clear, etc. That is the main thing to keep in mind, they are sort of refined system tuning devices. Not tone controls, the effect is much more sophisticated than that. I could see someone fairly happy with their system but just wishing it was very slightly less aggressive or edgy and not wanting to risk something like cables that might change it a lot the red stones might be just the ticket.

Or if you already had plenty of body and wanted a little more lively dynamic detail then blue or maybe clear would get you there. Or if all three are used together they combine to come back to being an overall neutral across the board improvement. Pretty cool. Only thing I don't like they look like little brown cow pies. With a really, really cheap looking QSA decal. Proving once again you can never have it all.

Stoned to the bone.