Preliminary DIY Grounding Box Result


I live in a big, downtown high rise building. Our grounding is crap. I just took a 12 awg sliver stranded wire and stripped both ends. One end went straight into the center of a 3 pound bag of magnetite, and the other stripped end was wrapped around a spare coax rca input (outside negative) on my DAC.

Result: Highly noticeable "analogue-ing" of the sound, along with more dramatically more pronounced soundstaging. Space between the instruments seems like it tripled. Smoother, detailed highs and warmer, dynamic vocals.

I have some quartz coming and will mix it in. Plus I’ll run to other components and report back. Just wanted to try this for a quick test.
tomask6

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A pail of magnetite is not a ground! And a bucket of quartzite is equally useless! Use the cold water pipe if you want to experiment and don’t have access to the outside. And again it must be all-metal piping from basement water source!
@geoffkait: Rumor has it that you have a working example of the Dean Drive? Inertia-less force is ready to be unveiled!
SR grounding block (another fine product from the genius mind of T.D.) - as effective as a copper bracelet for relief of arthritis!
More Flat Earth Science! Only a true earth ground (copper rod driven into the soil outside) has ANY benefit! That is how lightning protection works (by shunting the HV charge to the path of least resistance). Next best is connecting grounds to a cold water pipe - as long as it is an all-metal pipe running to the main water source.