has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak

Dear Phduncanson,
Your URL leads to a white paper on RFI. No one doubts that RFI can be a problem in audio reproduction and that eliminating RFI is desirable. If you read the paper yourself you will see that the only way in which crystals are connected to RFI is by the fact that devices that use crystal-referenced oscillators, like the wrist watch specifically mentioned, radiate RFI. The article does not support the contention that crystals shield from RFI.

I am prepared to believe that crystals are beneficial, but I remain to be convinced as to mechanism for that, and that it even has anything to do with RFI.

So, what is it, exactly, a piece off a 1950s Chrysler tail light?

If it's a '57 300C, I want one.

Dear Perditty: It's clear that you are an advocate Walker audio items starting by his TT.

I wonder how much of that biased " expectations " hear helps to listen " things " that maybe exist or maybe not?

Maybe could be good for you to bring to your place a person with out to much knowledge level about audiophile systems and invite him for a half an hour to listen with the cristals inside the system set up, after that take out those cristals and ask him ( with the same LP tracks. ) if he detected a difference for the better or worst or no differences at all.

Many times when we are waiting/prepared to " hear " something then we heard it even that there is nothing.

Our brain is unexpected: please listen to a track that you know in deep with your eyes closed and with your eyes open, after that make the same but with lights on and with lights off and ask you if in all cases you listen exactly the same.

Anyway, at the end of the day the important subject is that you think that you hear improvements and this is what it matters to stay satisfied with and not what other can hear or not.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

The fact that the (3, one assumes) black diamonds are used on the underside of Walker's record clamp suggests that vibration control is the mechanism, at least for the record clamp, perhaps for the cartridge, too. The fact that folks use crystals in areas where EMI/RFI is present doesn't necessary mean crystals work by absorbing EMI/RFI since, as it turns out, many of those locations also contain significant levels of vibration,me.g., power cord plugs, circuit breaker boxes, in proximity to small electron tubes, on top of speaker cabinets, on transformers, etc.