Anyone Using Crystals?

Northern--you are a pot expert AND an anesthesiologist?

Oooo.. northern, you just said double blind. I’m afraid you’ll have to leave. 😁

...and we all start edging into the surreal....

Geo, you're absolutely Right.  As a skeptic, I ought to investigate...IF interested, which I'm not so much.   Given my 'listening space', which is light years from being 'optimal' (you'd be appalled, really), I do what I can with it...

I don't 'get' the 'religious aspect' of the discussion mentioned, but faith is a wonderful thing in general as long as one doesn't opt for the 'ISIS approach".  Bombing and beheading the opposition into compliance in regard to one's audio tastes might be an option but let's leave that to the 'cable and interconnect' crowd.  They seem a bit more 'religious' about it...

Yes, the previous Does drip enormous amounts of sarcasm....sorry about the stains on your monitors.   Windex....;)

(Maybe I should just toss it and become a pro troll....I do suspect that some would rather stuff my keyboard into an appropo orifice and hope for an early and quiet end to my 'absurdvations'...*sly S*)

"It's all too much...."   

Northernescape
And I guess I do have to add to this thread there is a reason that most scientific studies involving humans and responses are double blinded! AND INCLUDE A PLACEBO TO ASCERTAIN THAT EFFECT.. BG...

Nope, doesn’t work for audio. Might be OK for pharma. There are just too many reasons the tests can be done wrong for audio. Therefore nothing can be concluded if the test results are negative. Best to just throw them out. In audio we see the threat of controlled blind tests frequently, and the dreaded placebo effect and it’s ugly sister, expectation bias, you know, as if the mere threat of such is sufficient to scare the opposition into submission or "prove" the controversial device under consideration must be a hoax or scientifically impossible.

"Most scientific studies...." Lol.

Double blind tests. Ewwwwww!

Whatever one thinks makes their system sound better is the tweak that should be used.