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and the effect has not been universal. Worked on a friends headphone set, but not on his speaker (although we were experimenting with the battery ground tweak, so I am extrapolating the results).

Another acquaintance claims good results on the positive terminal only. That has not been my personal experience, however. It's hard to verify as that guy lives about 3500 miles from me......

Why not try it, it can't hurt the components, as long as you use the wire loops and you don't short anything.

Stu

PS Incidentally, Bud's recommendation that you use Litz wire, is interesting. Litz wire, with its stranded, insulated construction, would naturally have a higher capacitance.

I have also tried the tweak but using a large choke with both terminals connected to the negative terminal. That also works quite well. although the choke we used was huge: something like 15 henries and weighing over 20 pounds.

I believe the effect has also a lot to do with electromotive force: copper, silver, platinum and gold are the strongest elements, electromotively in that order. I have noticed just adding a very thin strand of silver to a copper loop improves sound to a degree unexplainable considering how small the silver strand was ( I was using 125 micron pure silver wire, which I normally use for rewiring tonearms).

Hanging my friend's wife's golden wedding ring on the negative speaker terminal also produced a rather startling leap in sonic performance. She , of course, didn't take to the idea of leaving her ring on the terminal....


Edits: 01/05/13
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