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Lew, yeah - and that reduces the noise below threshold, but I sensed the Shakti added something in addition to plain ol damping - but I'm not a big believer in audiovoodoo until I can do a control and the difference is significant, sustainable and definable. Of course different does not always mean better or preferable, and I think these things have to prove over a period time.

The best application of Shakti stones for me has always been on CDP's (cleaning up digital haze) and power amp transformers/poer supplies, but not so much if the amp has a seperate power supply and umbilical.

Steve

I think I remember that the Shakti stone does have the property of soaking up some of the stray fields radiated by transformers, over and above the fact that mass loading the tranny helps to reduce vibration. I also think I read that any old out of use transformer, if placed atop a functional transformer, will have some of the same positive effects, but I've never tried that, nor have I used Shakti stones. From the hayday of audiovoodoo, promoted often innocently by HP, the Shakti stone hangs around. I don't dispute that it may do some good, I just am interested in the why of it.

Lew, while browsing one of my father's old EE textbooks from the early 50s, I read that a block of iron placed on top of a transformer improves coupling between the magnetic fields. This is how how a VPI brick is constructed. I don't know about the Skakti stones.

My Verus motor arrived a week ago and I have yet to set it up. I didn't realize that I would need a strobe disc and light in order to do the set up. Which strobe disc and light should I order?

The manual has a link for a down loadable strobe disk. Any florescent light will do the trick. Easy if you have a florescent lights in the room. Otherwise a florescent bulb in a regular lamp will also do.