Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...

Mapman I understand your point but you forget one important thing :

The process of using crystals is not simple indecomposable one act or gesture....It is a set of experiments each time conducted with the feed back of your ears...Each crystals and stones had his proper effect very different of one another... The experiment consist in trying each stone to improve the sound and when, imaging is better, soundstage is better, instrumental timbre better etc etc Bingo it is it...But sometimes we must try a few because one stone or crystal can accentuate a set of frequencies at the expanse of other frequencies in an individuated particular audio system embedded in a particular electrical grid... The idea to connect with cables my stones comes after I observed that certain stones act better if I located them together, because one compensate for the action of the other with positive results...( I even go further adding not only batteries but Shumann Generator that enhance the stones grid being connected to it) 

After that I decide to connect with a very thin hair-like cable some duos of stones, located at different spots in my audio system and that was great, because they all compensate for one another...I added batteries that enhance the stones grid...

Then your objection is only valid virtually, in reality and concretely i use different stones to correct exaggerated effects...The final results is not distorsions "per se" but better music...

A stone is like a tube inserted in an audio system, the distorsion introduced can be favorable or detrimental...We must choose each tubes correctly... Samething with stones that act collectively if connected...


Tourmaline , Chrysocolla or malachite, jade or nephrite, lava beads, kambaba jasper, Madagascar agate, varieties of quartz (lemurian or pink etc) ataxite, shungite, and many others all had a proper effect that you can pinpoint...

For example I recommend to the gentleman MKGUS that observe the effect on his electrical central panel 2 stones to begin with at this spot :

It is not an accident if I say so...Tourmaline added always like a filtering effect, some clarification of the sound frequencies... And shungite gives body to the sound among others effects and act always good in connector or power strip etc... Shungite is a powerful shielding stone that act synergetically with crystals... The 2 together must generally at this spot act positively...

Like MKGUS said : «For one, the imaging seemed all over the place so much so that it sounded like a new track I’m not familiar with »

This seems to me the beginning of a positive effect... The rest of the story is only refinement with trials and errors...Like I myself play with, experimenting many dozen of stones for the last years...My system dont only "distort" the signals like a bad tube amplifier but makes music better like a good tube amplifier, in one case the distortion is perveived like a noise, in another case the distortion is perceived like music... … This is a fact...

I must say one important thing now... The experiment I give to MKGUS is only a beginning...

One must before playing with the idea of a grid of stones,

FIRST treat his system against mechanical vibrations and resonance...Most audiophile underestimated completely the plague of resonance in his negative effect on the sound trough ALL pieces of gear even the power strip etc...

SECOND, treat his room because the sound of the speakers is makes BY the room TO the ears, even in nearfield listening...


THIRD and only third you can begin to treat the electro-magnetic grid of the house, and of the audio system (it is not the samething) The stones can help there, because they will act like some filters and will lower the general noise level of the electrical grid and also inserted in the audio grid they will lower the noise level around the connectors, cables and each pieces of gear...

A simple remark about noise level and electronics:

Each piece of electronic you add, is an ACTIVE component, being a capacitor, transistor ,filter etc and will add noise OF HIS OWN MAKING to the noise level...

If you add a stone you add a PASSIVE component that would not add any noise of his own...


Then the filtering general effect of each stone must be finetuned to the specific needs of each electrical grid and each audio system, sometimes this will not be optimal, but the stone is PASSIVE and dont add noise to the general noise level of the system...This is very important to understand...


A conditioner for example will filter your line BUT will add a noise of his own, killing dynamic in some case etc...Myself I use a conditioner but I use stones to compensate his own negative effect... Then with the right stones  all is better... Samething with a bettery noise ...etc

Hey well that's what experiments are for ie to help confirm how things work and go from there.

My description here with the words I use like "filtering" for example has ABSOLUTELY no scientific pretense at all... It is only a way to describe and convey to others and explain with words to myself what is going on metaphorically... Someone else will describe it differently with his own vocabulary... Someone more a scientist can explain it perhaps at a detailed scientific level...But i dont think that this person is on this forum... There is not much literature,if there is some, about audio and stones and crystals inserted in an electrical audio grid relatively to sound perception...