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Ground Box 6”x6” (2)
-  Made of scrape melamine covered in contact paper
- Copper plates, copper tape,  banana plug, bare copper ground wire, 
   12ga stranded copper speaker wire 
-  50 g Tourmaline fine stones
-  225g raw Tourmaline stones
-  50/50 volume mix of rock salt (4 lbs) and horticulture charcoal (2qt)  Connected one box to each speaker neg posts

Large Ground Box 12”x7”x6”
- Same as above with these additions
- 2 banana plugs
- Copper color aluminum plates (work as well as the copper and easier
   to cut and shape)
- 500 grams of natural tourmaline
- rock salt (8lbs), charcoal (4qts), graphite powder (2lbs),
   sand(quartz) (2lbs)
Connected large box to power conditioner chassis ground with power
    cord cable ground only connected to spade plug with hot, neutral 
    and ground wires twisted together.
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@tksteingraber Yeah, it's going to be fun. But only Graphene is expensive hence very small quantity, rest all are quite cheap. Tourmaline costed less than USD 8 for 1 kg, so did others...so it's not at all expensive for me.

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audio_phool

audio_phool

@tksteingraber I would suggest you to connect your ground box to earth of your wall socket and leave it as it is for a day or atleast 4-5 hrs. I am not sure how these works but if it is collecting ground noise in the material mix, it is essentially accumulating the charge which it can not drain as it is as there is no other connection for it to discharge it to. Think of it as variation of a capacitor. Capcitors can only hold a certain amount of charge and they will need to be discharged through a path.

I am building my ground box using mainly quartz chips (both transperant and pink in equal quantity), black tourmaline chips (double thbe quantity of quartz), little Shungite, Pyrite, Blue Apatite, Malachite, Magnetite Powder (Iron oxide), Graphite powder & Little Graphene powder for seasoning :)..I am excited to see how this mixture turns out and how does it affect the sound in my setup.

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audio_phool

audio_phool

Your grounding box surely looks good. I have few qustions regarding it.

1. Why have you lined up the internal of box using copper sheet? What purpose does it serve?

2. Since this grounding box is supposed to just collect the charge over the period, how do you discharge it?

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audio_phool

audio_phool