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    Default Is it a box of coal?????

    Just stumbled across this on ebay:

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aucharm-Au...EAAOSwXeJYLbl6

    It's sold as "grounding box" but looks like a box of coal with a wire attached to the coal. Eh?
    I'm gob-smacked!

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    Total rubbish should be on a Bon fire some mug will buy it

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    Default Is it a box of coal?????

    They are called "Aucharm" audio its an interesting name. It's not coal it's Tourmaline, see this link for its "grounding" properties. Apparently it grounds "between earth and the human spirit" but it does also seem to have electrical properties which may have caused people to create this link to mystical properties, so I wouldn't entirely write it off.

    https://www.crystalvaults.com/crysta...ack-tourmaline



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    It doesn't 'ground' to anything. Nonsense in my opinion.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    The wife was into her crystals. Ive still got hundreds here. Some tourmaline as well. She was a spiritualist. Only crystal i like is my whisky decanter
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    Looks very much like an Entreq device but at 10% of the price. So, if you believe in such things, it's good value.

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    Yes £6200 for a box of minerals does seem excessive

    http://www.lotushifi.co.uk/portfolio...ounding-boxes/



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    Trouble is that although crystals do, or are supposed to absorb energy, they required washing and recharging so that box of tricks will need replacing regularly to continue to work its a goldmine and i may start making them..
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Is the coal loving dipped in hi grade snake oil by virgins
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    The Entreq box was measured and was found to pick up RFI. Some people seem to find this improves the sound. I guess this does the same.

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