Are Shakti Stones effective?


I have never used Shakti Stones and wonder if they really work and, if so, what do they do,  I have used the Shakti Holographs and found them to magically focus the sound and tighten the soundstage. From what I have heard, even from Shakti, is that the stones make a significant difference is some usage and less in other. Has anyone used these and what do they do?
mglik
My point: A hobby is just that. If people demo a product and do not like it then where is the harm/snake oil? We are all grown up.
Thanks for your  wise post....


My best to you....
If people demo a product and do not like it then where is the harm/snake oil? We are all grown up.
The problem is the "gullible" who don't have the knowledge here pay these sharks good money for their snake oil products, (like a 10cent fuse for $150) that's "directional" in an AC circuit.
And if? "you think there’s nothing wrong with that", then you are also part of the problem.
THERE"S THE HARM
You assume that anybody who will buy something to try is "gullible"...

You assume that all products that work for some but not for all are "snake oil"...

You assume YOU must speak for all people and in their name...

You accuse anybody that does not assume what your saying is "part of the problem " and is "harmful"...

Anybody can deduce what is your problem.... I will let others conclude... :)



By the way i devise for myself many homemade devices that work well, that is proof for myself that all products proposed to audiophiles are not necessarily fraud....

Your accusations are baseless in their overall range....

What make me smile is your allegations about "your knowledge"....






Anyway i wish you the best....





On transformers for tube amps usually work good.On other stuff not so much.
The main important first knowledge fact in audio life is this one, some of us learned the hard way:


Past some point in technological electronic engineering improvement in the past collective or personal history, the main improvement coming from an audio system, come less from an electronical design new progress than from an improved control of the mechanical, electrical and acoustical embeddings of the audio system...


Most embeddings controls are often simple devices and also sometimes simple advices (speakers positioning) and play now the first role in the increasing of the S.Q. of an audio system...


The devices i created for myself cost peanuts and worked so much that they transform my basic vintage good audio system to a new level ...


Anybody can make them, anybody can create better device at low costs....


Knowing that it is not so much buying better gear, past some point of your purchasing history, that will improve your system, the so called "upgrading process", but the increasing controls of the mechanical electrical, and acoustical dimensions is the most important basic fact in audio life...


Dont upgrade anything before embedding everything rightfully....

This is the basic axiom of audio....

And the ONLY important knowledge for most of us, engineers or not.....