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What's good for the goose is good for the gander, my mother used to say. After the success I had experienced in placing hematite beads on the inside of the plugs of my power cords, I wondered if would work on my IC's. I removed the screw-on portion of the RCA connector and attached a couple of 6mm beads to the inside with a dab of silicon gel. Eureka!! Definitely mo' betta'. As a result of these two tweaks, not only has the transparency increased significantly, but my music is much CLOSER to me. So much more like being IN the band, rather than just listening to it from the front row. I could hear the attack of the brushes on the drum head and the air preceeding the attack as Sade sang each word on her Best Of disc. Much longer piano decays, and all that goes with it.
kendo
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same effect as adding ferrite beads, or clamp-on ferrite RF stoppers.
Al, IME experience hamatite beads have a similar effect to clamp-on ferrites, except hamatite gives better results. Thanks geofkait! Putting on too many ferrite beads can deteriorate the sound, whereas I have put hematite all over the place and it just keeps getting better. Thanks to another poster, I recently ran a string of hematite beads around my speaker cone housings immediately in front of the magnet to great effect. The combined effect of placing the hematite in all of the places I have posted has been mildly (or more) exhilarating. But be careful regarding placement. As unclestu has posted and I have discovered to my chagrin, hematite is slightly conductive.
kendo
Hematite is ferrous oxide, a rather different animal from ferrites, which are iron.
Ferrites are a mix of Zinc, Manganese, and ferrous oxides (Fe203).
Stu
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a correction to wikipedia
stu
placed an ohmmeter to the hematite? I have a suspicion that they may be slightly conductive.
The major reason I use quartz and its variants and tourmaline, is that they are non conductive I never fear dropping them into live electronics.
Stu
No unclestu, I have never checked hematite with an ohm meter but I suspect that you might have. I agree with you that hematite is slightly conductive. When I was placed the beads inside the IC housings, I accidently got one to touch both poles of the RCA connecter and got a hum. Good point on not using them inside live electronics. You might have saved me a bundle of bucks, since that is the next area I want to focus my attention on. Thanks!!
Source?? Any bead shop or?? Thanks.
Yes, I got mine at my local bead shop for $1.85 per 6mm strand. Another poster said that he had gotten his on Ebay. Read my other recent posts regarding how and where I have used these beads. The results have been outstanding for me.
kendo
improvement in transparency. A great tweak for about $20.00
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