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Differing results, but why?

Posted by bartc on November 26, 2010 at 17:18:58:
Paul,

I've gotten best results so far with amethyst, second with pink or green tourmaline, third with clear or pink quartz, fourth with silica gel (which I gather is pretty much a quartz).

All of the above were treated. Untreated results differ. Since I know you treat your crystals (or so I recall), did the results you posted all involved treated ones? If not, please clarify.

Today I visited Al Sekela and we tried out several additional crystals untreated (we had no time to treat them) on his Wadia, which already has a passle of treated amethyst, quartz, silica gel and tourmaline. When we removed a bag of treated silica and replaced it we found that it does have a nice effect, but not the strongest.

We tried large untreated crystals of natural topaz and Al didn't like the sound. I was equivocal. Small crystals didn't seem to do much. But these were untreated.

Tumbled and smallish amethyst had the strongest, most consistent and most pleasing results by far, again even when untreated.

A small bag of untreated green and pink tourmaline had a nice effect, but was especially good when paired with the amethyst.

I'm just relating a quick and dirty experiment in a system that is highly revealing, already treated with a lot of crystals, and a known quantity with a familiar reference recording for us both.

I have not yet repeated these trials with my own very different system.