has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak

Problem is piezoelectricity, by it's very definition, is the conversion of mechanical pressure to electrical charge, not EMI. Besides wouldn't one wish to reduce EMI rather than increase it? Hel-looo!
Geoffkait (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

Hel-looo
Where there is electrical charge generated there will be electromagnetic radiation. I should have used "EMR" instead of "EMI" perhaps.

Here is some light reading for you.
I'm a little crystal short and stout

Lewm

when we just mount a crystal out in space on a cartridge or tonearm there is no electrical energy source to set the crystal into resonating,

In my view there are 2 possible sources of excitation for the crystal -
1. Any resonance generated by the cartridge when playing a record
2. Electromagnetic radiation from the cartridge generator.
Whether these are significant enough to excite the crystal - someone else can do the maths.

the EMI emission from the crystal can alter the behaviour of other EMI floating around in the vicinity

This is the basis for the "looney" brigade selling crystals for PC's to make you feel better. Whether it is a process of absorption of EMR or emission to change the fundamental frequencies of electromagnetic radiation is open to debate.
Remember a doctor was struck off by the medical association for suggesting smoking was injurious to health in the late 1800's and Florence Nightingale took 30 years to convince the medical fraternity that clean bandages and fresh air was helpful in wound treatment.
I try to keep an open mind in these matters.

More mumbo jumbo and hand waving and still no real mechanism for the alleged effect. In things audio I'm willing to be a happy empiricist and accept something that enables my system to sound better. But to make pseudo scientific claims as to why that is so is just so much B.S.

That's cute, Dover.

So, what we have here, at least according to you, is a product that improves sound by producing electromagnetic radiation. Well, that's just great! :-)

Dear Perditty/friends: This is what posted Perditty:

+++++ " It's a crystal you put on either the tonearm or the cartridge that [I KID YOU NOT] transforms the sound! " +++++

transform the sound?. IMHO the main subject here could be not if that sound transformation like us or not but if that sound transformation is making honor to the recording proccess to what is really in the LP grooves.

Tha's it: if that sound transformation is right or wrong even if we like it ( this is not the main subject. )

Are we nearest to the recording or just changing to a different distortions level?

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.