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Old 10th May 2020, 5:59 am   #1461
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Long Eaton, the home of Living Voice and the place where the Diabolical Artificer grew up, I knew it would be famous for something one day.

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Old 15th May 2020, 12:37 pm   #1462
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Not audiophoolery but of the same genre.
https://rowlandearthing.co.uk

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Old 15th May 2020, 12:48 pm   #1463
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Good Lord! And I thought the Great British Public's lack of scientific literacy had been exposed by The Sickness. It seems chicanery in general life is just the same as it ever was in Defoe's 'Journal of the Plague Year'.

Obviously people here are not Earthed enough and thus refuse to be practised upon!
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Old 15th May 2020, 12:50 pm   #1464
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Not audiophoolery but of the same genre.
https://rowlandearthing.co.uk

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Hilarious! I shall just put my antistatic grounded bench mat in the bed. Then I can absorb all of those free electrons.

EDIT: it also has, I'm sure, a completely illegal plug, that only goes into the earth pin of your UK socket, while leaving the now unshuttered L and N nicely exposed.

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Old 15th May 2020, 1:35 pm   #1465
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it also has, I'm sure, a completely illegal plug, that only goes into the earth pin of your UK socket, while leaving the now unshuttered L and N nicely exposed.
No no nnooooo It mustn't do that! With the socket unshuttered, uncontrolled electricity will be free to fall out of the socket, filling the bedroom up to the level of the socket. The modern requirement for sockets mounted higher up walls makes this even more dangerous, they may be higher than the level of the person sleeping, unknowing, in the bed.

Researh in this area was done over fifty years ago by an American lady whose name I don't know - she's most famous as the aunt of James Thurber who did publish about some of her research in this area.

I notice the website uses the phrase 'Faraday Cage' thereby adding evidence to the statement that >99.99% of the times when one is mentioned, the context proves that the author hasn't a clue.

They'll have to update the webpage soon to mention 5G, they could be losing sales without it.

It looks a great convenience. We'll be able to take our tinfoil hats off when going to bed! Hoorah!

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Old 15th May 2020, 4:04 pm   #1466
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So did I, 'aint no such thing. I bet Mr Faraday is turning in his grave, to the left or right? Depends on conventional current or electron flow. (there is a flaw in that argument BTW). A switched off electric blanket will be as good?
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Old 15th May 2020, 4:53 pm   #1467
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Hilarious! I shall just put my antistatic grounded bench mat in the bed. Then I can absorb all of those free electrons.
Many years ago I moved into a house in a small village near Munich. I was working in the garden one day when an old man walking past stopped to talk. Welcome to the village and all that and BTW did I know that there were earth radiations here? The funny thing was that these ones were dangerous and could cause all sorts of illnesses, including cancer. The only way to be safe was to be screened from them. For a not insignificant fee he offered to cover my cellar with thick copper rods. Maybe German electrons are different to English ones.
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Old 15th May 2020, 4:57 pm   #1468
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Surely electric blankets are Class 2 appliances with no earth connection. Switching them off would only neutralise you not earth you.
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Old 15th May 2020, 5:10 pm   #1469
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We're in danger of making some of the lesser audiophools sound normal by comparison.
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Old 15th May 2020, 5:14 pm   #1470
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I wonder if the earthing bedsheet might remove my need to keep one foot on the floor when retiring for the night to stop the room spinning round after finishing the second bottle of Chateau Pavie 2008?

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Old 15th May 2020, 5:21 pm   #1471
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There is but one way to find out!

Electric blankets, class II, well most here seems to thinks neutral is near enough earth so it should do the job.
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Sorry, MM, no. Bet they have double pole switches, so you'd have to roast to get any benefit. And you'd still capacitively float half-way to mains.

I take Bill's point. Could we sell under-carpet earth mats to audio aficionados? They could connect it to their box full of high-end soil, and spend many happy hours moving it around for best effect.

Shades of Glen Baxter "We whiled away those long winter nights re-arranging the Gaugin..."

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Old 15th May 2020, 5:49 pm   #1473
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Well, because https://rowlandearthing.co.uk mentions a research paper (without giving the full bibliographic reference, see https://rowlandearthing.co.uk/pages/science), I ferreted it out

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/

And right at the end it says:

G. Chevalier, S. T. Sinatra, and J. L. Oschman are independent contractors for Earthx L. Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research, and own a small percentage of shares in the company.

So it was not an independent paper at all.

The page of papers cited on the next page relate to elite athletes, those with hypertension, and are often written by those with a vested interest.

So actually complete bunkum.

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Old 15th May 2020, 7:12 pm   #1474
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Old 15th May 2020, 7:14 pm   #1475
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Oh, I am surprised!

That reminds me to clean my glasses, that will make the voice(s) in my head clearer when reading a book.
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Old 15th May 2020, 7:40 pm   #1476
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... Could we sell under-carpet earth mats to audio aficionados? ...
In a slightly unusual variant on the 'someone's beaten you to it' response, I've also been a member of one or two audio fora in my time and seen an under-carpet issue raised. Some of my friends there are almost as sceptical as we are about this stuff, and they started a very funny thread indeed concerning a claim (not by one of the forum members) that the sound in your room could be killed* if you had the wrong kind of gripper rods holding down the edges of your fitted carpet. They're metal, you see, and so interfere with important things. You need to take them out and replace them with new ones made from the 'right' sort of metal. Our off-forum friend could help you with that, for enough money. Even the more subjective of my audio mates fell about laughing at that one.

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Old 15th May 2020, 7:58 pm   #1477
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Some of my friends there are almost as sceptical as we are about this stuff, and they started a very funny thread indeed concerning a claim (not by one of the forum members) that the sound in your room could be killed* if you had the wrong kind of gripper rods holding down the edges of your fitted carpet. They're metal, you see, and so interfere with important things.
Ah that explains why I don't have that problem. All the gripperods in my house are wooden albeit with the odd bit of metal in the gripper pins. I was intending to spray them with a conductive paint in order to earth the carpet. I'm glad I didn't as the sound would have been awful, though I might have been so much healthier.
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Old 15th May 2020, 8:40 pm   #1478
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The reference to free eletrons reminds me that a few decades ago, ionisers were all the rage on account of the allegedly health-promoting properties of the ions they produced.
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Old 15th May 2020, 9:25 pm   #1479
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Don't ionisers at least have the merit of precipitating dust (ie. filth, muck and rubbish) from the air? In the smoker days of yore that might well have been a health benefit!

They might even allow "cleaner sound" to reach your ears, getting vaguely back on topic.
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Old 15th May 2020, 10:27 pm   #1480
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Easy, turn its switch on and turn the socket switch off!
What about double-pole switched sockets? That would make your workaround ineffective and as such if I heeded such advise I would not get the health benefits that are obviously very much needed according to the linked "research".

So now you are saying that I will also have to check my sockets first to see how they are switched adding extra complexity. I just want earthing that works
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