It’s a common misconception that crystals generally operate by absorbing RFI/EMI. In fact, crystals operate in most audio applications by absorbing vibration. For example, in room corners, in proximity to ekectron tubes, on output transformers, on top of tube traps, and on cable connectors, wall outlets and windows. The only good vibration is a bad vibration. Having said all that I wouldn’t be very surprised if someone somewhere could find a place where crystals improved the sound by absorbing RFI/EMI. |
Nurse! Thorazine! Man down!
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inna
How do you people deal with vibrating wires in the wall ? You think it’s nothing ? There is an external vibration and vibration created by the current.
>>>>>That’s quite so. That is why there are such things as duplex outlet covers that act as resonators and large (constrained layer) Marigo Dots for walls and even crystals for walls. Herbies Tube Dampers on power cord plug, anyone? Not only is seismic vibration an issue but when music is playing the walls react accordingly and vibrate like drum heads. The only good vibration is a dead vibration. ☠️
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Whoa! What! OMG, did he just drop the T bomb?! Oh, no he didn’t!
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I can understand skepticism regarding outlet duplex covers but receptacles seem like a slam dunk. Maybe it’s a slow day at the Skeptics Society. |
Yes, well said, dynaquest4. 🤮
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That’s so sweet. One pseudo scientist comforting another.
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Bravo! Spoken like a true English major. |
sleepwalker
Your insults are probably a reflection of insecurity that stems from lack of understanding how power supplies and amplifiers really work. People, the laws of physics cannot be subverted by anything, let alone magic pixie dust sprinkled to obtain imaginary improvements in sound quality.
I’m not here to belittle anyone. Insults and behaviour such as some members have demonstrated is the downfall of social media, and only makes a mockery of this forum. To those people I say - go ahead and keep it up if you want. That is your prerogative. Not mine.
>>>>>Thanks for showing some restraint by not belittling or mocking anyone. 😬 And we applaud your defense of social media.
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I wasn’t referring to the 20A dedicated circuit argument. Wasn’t that obvious? |
My impression is most naysayers couldn’t care less about the item under debate. They mostly just like getting a rise out of the believers. It’s not as if they’re real skeptics. Been that way for like forever. Besides, most things aren’t even that controversial. |
lowrider57
Thanks so much, Elizabeth, terrific explanation. Now it makes sense why you have the quartz crystals in different areas, and why so many tweaks are for sale to treat these same areas.
I was aware of possible RFI being found in the obvious areas such as unshielded AC cable and transformers. The Crystals and similar tweaks to be used system-wide seemed unnecessary to me.
>>>Since I am the creator of the first comprehensive crystal based solution for audio applications - Brilliant Pebbles - bear 🐻 with me, gentle readers while I address is comment briefly. Over a period of time starting about 15 years ago I discovered a great many location where crystals (my products are not individual crystals but groups of crystals of various types and sizes) improve the sound. I also discovered locations where their use is either ineffective or hurts the sound. Furthermore, as I just mentioned most locations where crystals improve the sound they operate as mechanical and acoustic resonators. If the entire 3D Space of the room is mapped out for sound pressure level, those locations such as room corners where sound pressure levels can be 4-8 dB or more higher than the average SPL in the room. And beacause crystals are resonators caution should be used when applying them to electronics and isolation stands, for example.
Crystals act as vibration absorbers due to the spring like behavior of atoms in the symmetrical atomic structure of the crystals and the reason multiple crystals are more effective than any single crystal is because the operational bandwidth is wider. Power to the pebble! |
“As of 2015, Bostik was manufacturing around 100 tonnes of Blu Tack weekly at its Leicester factory.”
Wow! That’s a lotta freakin Blu Tak! There must be a boatload of audiophiles out there! Are we just the tip of the iceberg?
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Just for the record, not intending to judge too harshly, ceramic wall outlet covers sound much better than brass ones. But not for the reason you think. It’s also partly why ceramic feet/cones sound much better than brass ones. Hint: it’s good old physics. And it has nothing to do with magnetism.
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