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In Reply to: RE: Well, you've finally caught on. Good for you! posted by bartc on January 09, 2011 at 15:33:23
I got a few strings of amethyst beads that I've soaked in Purex fabric softener. Where are they best used? I have Alan Maher cbfs in the usual places and cardas caps over the rca jacks on the back of my pre amp. Now what?
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Power supply components: transformers, rectifiers, capacitors.
Near tubes if you have tube gear.
On plug inlets, power conditioners, outlets.
Try placing them in various locations near speakers. They helped near my woofers and tweeters.
Breaker box, but you probably have the CBFs there anyway.
You might want to try out different crystals. They each have somewhat different characters: quartz, topaz, aqua aura, and tourmalines (but not black). You might want to compare them with and without the fabric softener. My least favorite is crystal is quartz, but I still have some in my breaker box and near my phono step-up transformers where it works well. The others that I listed all perform well. I've also got a chunk of amethyst above my power amp's power transformer and it's doing beneficial things.
I put eight QR8 quartz resonators on top of one speaker and it sounded like a kazoo--a really horrible sound, but just one QR8 improved the sound stage. In this case the distortion from the crystals was unmistakable. In other cases, I'm less sure about the source--maybe worn tubes, but I removed about half of my rock pile and didn't notice any deleterious effects.
You may find it interesting that tourmaline becomes a negative ion generators when heated up. Placing them on devices which require a heat sink may be the ticket, and it certainly seems to work slightly better in my experience.
Stu
What was your negative there?
It has a high iron content which may have something to do with it.
There are probably a dozen places you can put the CBFs or your treated crystals. And some inmates say that it's hard to get too many of them, so you can double up too.
It's a matter of experimenting as to where they do the job for you in your system.
If you're only using the CBFs at the breaker box and at the outlets, next place I found great for them and crystals is top and bottom over the transformers in your gear - amp, pre, CDP, etc. You can put them in or on power strips. They seem to work around the terminations of power cords and in the middle, possibly at other nodes. And you can always try something similar to the original poster here by using them on the terminations of your ICs. At least one inmate reports using them well on speakers.
Read up what others have said. Not just here in Tweaks, but in Iso as well, as some of the original posts were redirected there when I guess the moderators thought they were too way out there.
I really don't know about your fabric softener treatment as I don't use that. I assume if it has any impact it's due to the static treating properties, but wouldn't know.
YMMV.
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