Tweak Pink Himalayan Salt Lamps.

OP,

How long did you leave the salt lamps on before you noticed a difference and if you turned them off,  how long before the difference went away?

 

SCAM- always has been, always will be... do with your money what you wish.

I prefer to use it to buy more music or see music live.
 

 

@curiousjim that was my question in my original post after finding this on WBF.  Yet to find any real answers other than snark and cynicism. A couple of people have made real contributions to this post.

@amtprod thanks for sharing both your opinions and the video.

No problem!  I lived with someone for a few years in Santa Fe that is from the 'new age alternate health care' universe, and frankly it was maddening to feel like I was constantly being gaslit and bullshitted about things like this.

Having said that: I love salt lamps, and I think they look amazing, and are a perfect gizmo to both lighten dark areas of your room, and they can add ballast.  I have one (Like A British Audiophile) on my subwoofer which is black.  It normally looks like a light sucking black box in a corner, and the salt lamp lightens things up, make a nice accent, and it weights the subwoofer stabilizing it better. 

If something makes you "think you feel better", or think you hear things better- and you do, then go for it.  I tend to err on the side of measurements/maths/science/proof.  But the same argument can be made for a component that measures amazingly well, but sounds dull, or uninteresting, or even flat.  I built my own bi-wire speaker cables from old Westinghouse tinned copper wire, and compared to my solid core Anti-cables: both measured, both relatively exactly the same (resistance, capacitance etc.) I swear the home made sound better in my system.   

There are videos of a guy explaining how he puts tiny crystals with blue tac on various chips and capacitors in his components-testing and experimenting to hear which one is best in what orientation......mind blowing.
My Pioneer PD-65 cd player has copper wrapped capacitors on the audio boards: allegedly blocking EMI/RFI and cam be measured. 

+1 for open mind new poster here...

Welcome to you on audiogon amtprod..

And Merry christmas....🎄

Hey thank you so much @mahgister I appreciate that.

I lurk here and mostly always feel out of my depth to comment, but I sure do learn a ton.  I am mostly always open minded, but not always always! I just don't want to see people blow a ton of money without knowing ALL of the truth (if that's possible).

Merry Christmas and Seasons best to you and yours too!

2.4 drops of snake oil on top makes a subtle but profound difference. Takes about 3 months of constant running of the lamp to fully break in through...

@scottwheel , 99% of your posts are complete garbage.

Sure, you're free to post here, but imo, the damage is done, and your posts are pretty generally ignored, except by the few that continue to put up with your sealioning.

Get a life.

 

You are right about his posting mantra about double blind test...

But he posted some few interesting useful posts about the BACCH system then he can be very useful...

I just try to be fair ...And it is better to be welcoming to all than exclusive...

merry christmas to you coralkong

🎄

 

@scottwheel , 99% of your posts are complete garbage.

Sure, you’re free to post here, but imo, the damage is done, and your posts are pretty generally ignored, except by the few that continue to put up with your sealioning.

Get a life.

A decent Negative Ion Generator works much better than the Him. Salt Lamp to purify the air. I've had both . I don't think the Him. Salt Lamp is anything more than a Lamp.

it is also my experience compared to passive salt lamp ( the audible difference here can be a placebo i cannot know) ...

And Schumann generators are more audible than ion generator ...Here i dont consider only mere  placebo effect at all and in the case of ion generator either .....

 

A decent Negative Ion Generator works much better than the Him. Salt Lamp to purify the air. I've had both . I don't think the Him. Salt Lamp is anything more than a Lamp.

Hide not your light under a bushel of salt.

Lot's wife is just a glance away.

Salted roads rust Himalayan engine blocks.

 

"Looking for my lost shaker of salt" ranks among my Top 10 of deeply moving literary moments involving a reference to sodium chloride.  Rest in piece, Mr. Buffet.

"Looking for my lost shaker of salt" ranks among my Top 10 of deeply moving literary moments involving a reference to sodium chloride.  Rest in piece, Mr. Buffet.

But there's booze in the blender. . . .

"Schumann generator are not placebo at all, it is way more audible than atmosphere ionization ..."

I fell asleep next to the SG I purchased and woke up with an upset stomach (I rarely have them - not even once a year).

Following this I experienced the same if it was left on for more than 20-30 minutes.

It definitely affects my stomach, but it's difficult to judge sonics while experiencing a stomach ache.

Has anyone experienced ill effects with the salt lamp - sore tongue?

 

DeKay

Generally the S.G. dont affect people negatively, but we are all different , and as in alimentation , there is not a regimen exactly the same for all ...

I had many working "on" all day for years with no problem except a better relaxation which can be for sure a placebo effect ...

For the soundfield i excluded just a mere -placebo effect because i made blind test experiments with all "on" ( maximal aural atmosphere around tones), half "on" (decreasing aural effects) and all "off" ( no aural effects) .. I had 12 low cost chinese one with battery, or power supply or usb , distributed all around the audio system and my listening position and connected to many wall plugs near and far from the gear ...

I like experiments more than upgrade purchases ... 😊

If you google your problem with sore toungue on the internet , you will see it is an idyosincrasic problem of you and very fee people ... How many people own salt lamps and repot only positive effect ?  Almost all ...

 

"Schumann generator are not placebo at all, it is way more audible than atmosphere ionization ..."

I fell asleep next to the SG I purchased and woke up with an upset stomach (I rarely have them - not even once a year).

Following this I experienced the same if it was left on for more than 20-30 minutes.

It definitely affects my stomach, but it’s difficult to judge sonics while experiencing a stomach ache.

Has anyone experienced ill effects with the salt lamp - sore tongue?

magister:

I was kidding about the sore tongue (my inner chef/freak would want to lick the lamp), but not about the SG.

I purchased the SG back when they were first mentioned here (perhaps by you) and it's a cheap, maybe $12, rechargeable unit from China.

Oddly enough I've felt ill the few times I've been in an operating TV studio (2X in my early teens and 2X in my 30's) while no one else seemed to be affected.

 

DeKay

I understand... You seem electro sensitive person...

Probably with an unrecognized or recognized intuitive ability ...

😊

Merry Christmas to you and to your family ... 🎄

 

My alias Mahgister means : m.A.h= milli amperes /hour and "gister" in dutch means= yesterday ... All together they suggest magister the latin word for teacher ... Then dont forget the letter "h" ... all together this means : my battery bank taught me something ....

😊😉

Each name means on many levels...Truth is dispersed in many names , learning to read is learning to pray and think ....

Numbers lives without any name , save a temporary one,  because they all lives in the name of God , as tones together in the same melody and rythm ......

 

magister:

I was kidding about the sore tongue (my inner chef/freak would want to lick the lamp), but not about the SG.

I purchased the SG back when they were first mentioned here (perhaps by you) and it’s a cheap, maybe $12, rechargeable unit from China.

Oddly enough I’ve felt ill the few times I’ve been in an operating TV studio (2X in my early teens and 2X in my 30’s) while no one else seemed to be affected.

 

DeKay

"Some scientists and clinicians acknowledge the phenomenon of hypersensitivity to EMR resulting from common exposures such as wireless systems and electrical devices in the home or workplace; others suggest that electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is psychosomatic or fictitious."

 

Wonder what cables are good for EHS?

 

DeKay 

https://elektrosmog-info.voxo.eu/video/Panagopoulos-Chrousos-2019-STOTEN.pdf

«Since metal shielding has lately been massively suggested and ap-
plied as a protective solution against man-made EMFs without proper
scientific verification, we feel it is high time that this practice is picked
up and examined in depth by the scientific community. We hope our
present paper will initiate scientific research on the long-term effects
of EMF-shielding, possibly in combination with the use of specifically
constructed Schumann generators. As scientists, we feel it is our duty
to discuss these issues of utmost importance for public health, elaborat-
ing as much as possible every aspect of them, and to not let people be
confused or misdirected in addition to the health problems they may
experience due to the increasing levels of man-made EMFs in the
environment.»

Then we must be cautious....

 

 

 But dont trust any doctors that will not believe you when you spoke about your symptoms and will fault you as deluded...

Electro sensitivity is a recognized symptom not an hysterical claim ...

Some doctors in the same way dare to claim that the negative after effects of the vaxx are in the "head" of the patient and not real ...

Using the word psycho-somatic here to degrade a real problem as a fictitious one , like some objectivist audiophile use the word placebo to degrade subjectivist audiophiles impressions only reflect ignorance of these deep concepts meanings most of the times ..

Put shungite plates in front of your house main router ...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352872538_Electromagnetic_shielding_effectiveness_of_lightweight_and_flexible_ultrathin_shungite_plates

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252053685_Effect_of_magnetic_impurities_in_based_on_shungite_electromagnetic_absorbers_on_its_shielding_properties

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221478531831945X

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9657770/

 

 

I think this is enough references for convincing you about shungite properties in shielding EMI ...

 

When used in audio it can compress too much the soundfield... I use it with quartz to balance and finetune the effect for a better soundfield...

others suggest that electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is psychosomatic or fictitious."

 

*S*  Good morning/afternoon/evening....it's hard to really tell time under artificial lights, salted or no... 

Thanks, mahgister...here I'd supposed a moniker from a Celtic warlord or the like....but I like my concept better than your reality, and feel free to share it..*g*  

...and your anglish is Fine....helps the misconcept....;)

Y'know....the block function  is handy, but....I was semi-psychically ready to lock keystrokes in a disparate wrangle...but.... a lack a lass or an alias, no mas...

"....Oh, lack a lay!  He's ded, this piece of meat...no runny no more.  He does not see the little birds who used to poop on his head...they can't fly!"
(....from the purposely lost 'Willie the Shake; Whilst Drunk' TP Tomes....)

Seems salt lamps and other ironic ionic items have other memes to contend with...which is only fitting.... overt over shinking thit can lead to attacks of M-ID.....

Multiple-Identity Disorder....we used to call it "The Waster"....:(

Excessive audio diaspora, in terms of what one uses to listen and immerse one's precocious mental metallic fluids with random excerpts from selections from anywhere with anything from anywhere But the excerpts are from.....

Pitifully....can drive one to keystroke the deranged drivel you've just labored to get to....Here.

 

No, I don't understand Any of the above, anymore that anyone else might.

But, It was kinda entertaining, and beat this salt lick on my desk.... 

EHS.....yeah, I went to that skool....shockingly static....

'"   'L'ectroHi.....always good for a buzz...."

(....puns that fall like leaden farts upon the stage....)

Caelin Gabriel's early patent:

Shunyata's Early Patent

I use 2. I also put a grill on top of my amp and use 2 ribeyes!  Not only does it sound great it smells great too!  Merry Xmas 

Triple AC Evolution

I have no interest in the "Akiko Triple AC Evolution" which employs what some forum members would characterize as "fairy dust," but I do find the 6Moons reviewer Srajen Ebaen's more laid back attitude to assessing such devices more thoughtful and entertaining as well.

Yeah, I have a couple of salt lamps but I wouldn't place them near my gear. They release salty moisture when not on. I leave mine on constantly and always use incandescent bulbs with them to keep them warm and dry. Never turn them off unless necessary. And wrap them in plastic or something similar if you have to. Especially if you live in a humid environment

It's the VIBE man! very chill, gives you an eargasm 

I am going to crush some pink himalayan salt crystals into something much finer than a lamp, place the salt in a kerchief, roughly form it into a tube and wrap said tube around my vintage 10 gauge Western Electric speaker wires about 3-4 inches from the speaker ends and see what happens to the sound. The composition of this particular salt reminds one of the composition of audio ferrite cores albeit a much more diffuse presence of minerals and metals:

That being said, Himalayan salts do contain a significantly greater number of minerals than your conventional, crystal white, sea or table salt. In fact, it is these minerals (including potassium, manganese, iron and zinc) which account for the salt’s distinctive off-white hue, with the exact colour depending on the exact proportion of certain trace minerals present in that specific sample.⁴

 

@mahgister Merry Christmas. Nice to hear from you. Can you share what ionizer you use? Happy New Year to everyone.