Kevin Vincent: Kaivey - The Mysteries Of Peter Belt

About 30 years agone the British hi-fi press became enthralled past times Peter Belt in addition to his mysterious products. Just an elastic band in addition to a cable necktie treated past times Peter Belt could transform the good of a hi-fi system, in addition to he could fifty-fifty care for a drinking glass off H2O to cause got the same effect.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months afterward the was a large hi-fi exhibition at Heathrow Airport in addition to I went along with my girlfriend. We went in addition to listened to the diverse hi-fi fellowship demonstrations in addition to got bored every bit hell, but at the halt of the solar daytime nosotros finally got into the room of the Haymarket Publishing group, which published What Hi-Fi, Popular Hi-Fi, in addition to Hi-Fi Answers, where they were demonstrating Peter Belt products.

So inwards the room was a top Linn Hi-Fi organisation with a Linn Sondeck L.P. 12 tape player. I sat at that spot with my girl with virtually 30 other people in addition to nosotros listened to about music. Then they put  a charged cable necktie with with an elastic band attached to it to the tape histrion in addition to it transformed the good of the music where suddenly the music became coherent in addition to dynamic with perfect timing. Everyone gasped, including my girlfriend, who had no involvement inwards hi-fi, every bit it was only a dramatic in addition to stunning difference. Jaw droping inwards fact.

Peter Belt was at that spot who said that the hi-fi had non changed its good but our perception of good had. He in addition to therefore demonstrated a similar final result with a charged drinking glass of water. Again nosotros were all stunned.

Why create I write virtually this, well, nosotros create bask about of the mystical materials hither at times, similar quantum physics in addition to spirituality, therefore I persuasion this would an interesting article. It's the alone existent encounter  I cause got ever had with something mystical in addition to strange, in addition to maybe it was an event of quantum physics at work. KV.

Peter Belt, 1930-2017

On March 13, May Belt of PWB Electronics announced via email that Peter W. Belt, the company's founder in addition to her hubby of many years, passed away on Feb 17. He was 87.

Englishman Peter Belt came to attending inwards the mid-1980s, cheers generally to a serial of articles in HiFi Answers and other British good magazines. He specialized inwards the pattern in addition to industry of decidedly non-traditional good accessories, the workings of which were regarded past times many every bit anomalous. But May Belt steadfastly maintained that the products of the fellowship she ran amongst her hubby cause got less to create with mysticism than with shifting the emphasis from altering the surgical physical care for of playback gear to altering the perception of the listener: "It has ever been perception," she told me inwards 2012.

As I wrote in Stereophile's Apr 2012 issue, "The products of PWB Electronics, Ltd. all derive from a uncovering that Belt, an electronics engineer in addition to onetime radio repairman, made inwards 1979. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wooden tabular array inwards his listening room had suffered a tumble of about sort, therefore Belt used a cleaning product—he refers to this every bit Chemical A—to motility in addition to take away the stain. Right after doing so, he in addition to his wife, May, noticed that the good of their music organisation was markedly worse than before. They removed the tabular array from the room, upon which the good improved. Then, out of curiosity every bit much every bit anything else, they brought the tabular array dorsum into the room, in addition to the good worsened again—and therefore it went, back-and-forth, until the curious human relationship betwixt wretched good in addition to the newly "treated" tabular array was beyond all doubt."

There followed a long trouble of PWB accessories based on this in addition to other of Peter Belt's discoveries, many of seemingly fanciful design: ointments (Electret Cream), stickers (Rainbow Electret Foil), in addition to peculiarly treated newspaper clips (Morphic Links) cause got been sold straight in addition to through a handful of retailers, few bearing prices greater than £10 or £20 apiece. One of PWB Electronics' most recent accessories is a Morphic Link Magnetic Bookmark priced at £10, intended to live placed inwards the user's dictionary. Adjacent to the word link.

Over the years, reactions to the discoveries in addition to developments of Peter Belt cause got ranged from hopeful credence to calm dismissal to hostile ridicule, the latter ever borne with serenity graciousness past times the Belts, whose consistent reply was to urge skeptics to only give their ideas a try—and who ever sent gratis samples of their products to whatsoever interested parties, precisely for the asking. The scientific grounding of Peter Belt's run has been called into interrogation past times many, but the man's sincerity, honesty, in addition to integrity stay beyond doubt.

Funeral services for Peter Belt took identify in conclusion month; May Belt writes that she volition croak along to run PWB Electronics amongst the couple's boy Graham.

Stereophile Magazine

Peter Belt, 1930-2017

If you're interested, here's Peter Belt's homepage -

http://www.pwbelectronics.co.uk