Shakti Stones Do they actuall work guys.

Rapogee, there are sound scientific reason why items such as powercord and isolation devices can influence and alter the sound of a system. And you correct that some will influence some devices more than others.

Unfortunately, there is no scientific explanation as to why shakti stones can influence sound; it’s all down to placebo effect.

Regards
Paul

try kidney stones, everything sounds better after passing one.

I was browsing through(my father's!) MSEE tube textbooks from the early 1950s and came across a statement that a block of ferrous material placed on top of a transformer improves electromagnetic coupling between the windings. This explains the old transformer laminations found inside VPI bricks and perhaps the ferrites in Shakti stones. Expensive, mystical repackagings of simple ideas...

Google shows this as the patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/download/Passive_EMI_dissipation_apparatus_and_me.pdf?id=fcUBAAAAEBAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1ER0cCB3--ypqIinrnvrGSZTKsew

John C.