How DOES the grounding boxes work?

[AJ Soundfield]

6 minutes ago, Cornan said:

Well, since all my ground paths is floating it seems like an interesting thing to try. 

Your box of rocks is floating. "Ground" not so much.

Out of curiosity, what perceived deficiency in your system was this bought to correct?

[AJ Soundfield]

28 minutes ago, lasker98 said:

If the purpose of the box is somehow

I agree

[AJ Soundfield]

12 minutes ago, Cornan said:

 

Originally, I just bought it out of curiosity.

Ok. I was wandering what perceived audio deficiency would prompt someone to connect a box of rocks to their stereo, but mere curiosity fills the bill.

 

What were your DIY efforts? Like the original post copper stuff of the box of rocks business?

[AJ Soundfield]

So no coffee?

 

What difference do you hear between your DIY efforts and the Entreq?

[AJ Soundfield]

44 minutes ago, lasker98 said:

I'm working from the assumption that these boxes actually do "work".

Yep and you're not alone.

 

Now that I know its literally a box of rocks, I can't help but think it's a prank. A rather funny one. 

[AJ Soundfield]

3 hours ago, mansr said:

Presumably the same as with all miracle products: lifted veils, wider soundstage, tighter bass, etc.

Well, if I connected my stereo to the cat litter box, I would think "cleaner", maybe "less mud", etc.

Of course, never in my wildest dreams would I have thought of doing that. Bravo to these guys for such ingenuity.

[AJ Soundfield]

6 hours ago, Speed Racer said:

 

You realize you said absolutely nothing in those two paragraphs, right? You might as well have typed:

"TUGfjjlkdjl ldfjlj dlkjlk flkjdfl [t][y[pou eioywgfbkhg h;ghkgokjg sdfgdkin. LKHJkjhdgljortopijgmgf;dk dljojcgljkld ugjhit kjgj['hlhk uydf."

Expect a lot more of the same.

 

And 20+million extolling Power Bracelets can't be all wrong, now can they..

[AJ Soundfield]

3 hours ago, Cornan said:

 I do shake the box every 6 months or so to reduce any plausible risk of saturation

If it's completely sealed, how are the cats peeing in it???

[AJ Soundfield]

29 minutes ago, Jud said:

to show whether or not the Entreq and its cable make an audible difference due to serving as an antenna...

Hook it to a tuner or AVR he and/or his friends have.

Bet it won't happen.

[AJ Soundfield]

6 minutes ago, Jud said:

My suggestion is (1) a lot simpler

 

4 hours ago, Cornan said:

Considering that the Entreq grounding boxes peak their performance after 24 hrs this is not something I am prepared to do. It would take me and a friend 480 hrs to complete with confident result. Never mind the extra time changing the gears and the possible audio memory loss inbetween. ?

Guess not.

Maybe I am a mind reader.

(or we've seen this movie before, many, many times)

[AJ Soundfield]

10 minutes ago, lasker98 said:

People with a genuine interest in a topic

Would genuinely want any plausible explanations, not just one or two predetermined ones.

 

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I picture them as kids running along the beach destroying all the other kids sand castles

Or adults telling said kids Santa isn't real. Yeah, there will be a lot of backlash and despair, but it really doesn't make the adults mean. All in eye of beholder.

[AJ Soundfield]

1 hour ago, lasker98 said:

Have you presented any plausible explanations?

Yes, but despair causes tunnel vision, blocking out answers and belief does not allow for non-belief.

Some folks will always vainly insist that their purely subjective perceptions are unerring representations of physical reality.

Power bracelets, Santa, electrical litter boxes, etc, etc. All must be real if perceived.

No alternates are allowed, regardless of plausibility. Tis the way of this world.

 

Btw, you seem far more enraged than the OP, who's taking this all in stride. 

[AJ Soundfield]

6 minutes ago, lasker98 said:

Unfortunately, I have a low tolerance for ignorance.

Excellent. There was a link earlier for learning high school level physics that teaches about very basics of electricity, like what ground is, potential difference, current flow, etc, etc.

That would go such a long way to correcting all the misunderstandings in this thread and many, many others.

Good luck sir.

[AJ Soundfield]

4 minutes ago, semente said:

 

What do you mean with "work"?

Guesswork

[AJ Soundfield]

Countering woo with high school level science is utterly contemptible and mean. Shame on you

[AJ Soundfield]

https://vimeo.com/70051022

[AJ Soundfield]

4 minutes ago, semente said:

 

Apparently the cause for that effect is noise.

So, until we find a better one, the answer to the question "How DOES the grounding boxes work?" is that they work by raising the noise-floor level.

I don't see any evidence there either, if "audible" noise is the "theory"

[AJ Soundfield]

2 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

In that case, put a lightning rod on the roof of your house and connect it with a wire to a bucket of grit or sand.  Let us know what happens after the next thunder storm.

That won't work. But cat litter as used in these things might

[AJ Soundfield]

7 minutes ago, semente said:

 

Perhaps "expectation" is another possible cause.

Most plausible, given that the noise floor measurements seemed to be raised from -150db to around -110db.

I need to see someone demonstrate being able to hear that before believing that was audible