 After many years of upgrading tweaking.
The audio set up i now have i thought was what i was looking for.
Near enough perfect for my ears.
Well until i read an artical on demaging compact discs with fridge magnets.
Tried this and it improved sound.
thought about this revelation and thought of optical transport did this and was amazed at the result.
Isotec rejuvination disc covers this.
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 Okay then.
I would class this as left of centre, but if it feels good, do it!
I think this might be what happens when the credit card says 'no' but the tweaking gland says 'go'! If there's nowhere left to tweak to by buying stuff, out come the pens, freezers and now fridge magnets.
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Yes i partly agree that you could go to far and think your making improvements that are not there. But after working in engeneering for the last twenty years, heat,electricity and spinning metal amount to a magnetic field.If you look on this site under acc- other (Densen demagic) you will see that other people have come across the same anomaly.
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 Acoustic Revive's RD-3 demagnetizer gives superlative results, immediately evident: a wider and deeper soundstage; greater precision, particularly noticeable on plucked bass notes; more realistic timbre of voices. Costs about £200 but an upgrade of this quality would cost five times as much.
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 Carl, I'm not sure about demagnetising cd's , i didn't think there was anything ferrous in cd's , but i have found an improvement if you remove static charge from cd's , i use electrolube asa spray to keep my cd's clean , it is an anti-static cleaning spray that prevents static build up. I also use my old zerostat anti-static pistol occasionally, it seems to work on cd's almost as well as lp's Fred.
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Hi Emlyn fred & Electro head. £200 smackers could buy you a wack of new music. The isotec and the dansen cost about £12.- £15 and use them about once every two to three months. I bought the isotec rejuvination disc for christmas presents last year for two of my familly the look i had was !!!! but by feb they had both run the disc and phoned me thanking me for the improvment in thier sound. Dont know about LP,s Fred. Electrohead Will try the spray and let you know results.
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It seems obvious to me that this type of thing is snakeoil.
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Thought you might all like to know - Fred (AKA Keith Macalpine, Oldphart etc) has been banned yet again from the WHF forums for abuse..........no change there then; reasoned argument ain't one of his strong points 
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 Sorry to appear 'downmarket' here but I always thought a CD was an aluminium deposit on polycarbonate, maybe my background is seriously 'off whack' but if the materials used are non magnetic, please tell me what magnetism has to do with it? Maybe I should demagnetize my pen then I will write better, or demagnetize my aluminium saucepans for improved cooking, please tell me. Now from a physics background something that is not magnetic/ferrous can not be affected by magnetics and can therefore not be 'demagnetised', or perhaps fifty years in electronics design has actually taught me nothing, apart from spotting a con!! John...
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Hi all if you scroll down on the web site it tell's you what a cd is made of. just thought you'd try it yourself's to see if you have any results on well played discs. if it works for you do it. i once though the same as everyone else ( aluminium ) magnetic ???. but it works for me. - carl.
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Nothing is set in stone to improve ones mind it has to stay open to new idea's
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Yer right, new ideas, a different physics, we now come from a different planet, come on guys, physics is physics. it doesn't change because you have read a new story. Physics is the property of material, the property of material does not change, whatever the current trend is, the properties of materials are constant. Sorry guys but the constants of the planet do not change. The materials we have are the same, if something was nonmagnetic last year then it is still nonmagnetic today, vinyl and CD have never been magnetic, so it will not be today, if anyone tries to convince you otherwise then they are out to con you, end of story, sorry but that is the truth. Try and get to grips with the truth about 911, understand what that was all about, get to the bottom of that and you may start to understand some truth, understand what happened on that day and you may understand what is happening in the Hi Fi industry, you may begin to understand what is happening in this world. You may then begin to understand your own life! John...
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did you not read the (full ) artical.......j...
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Carl, I read the full article, it may be true about the magnetic materials in the dyes on the label, but with a lot of CD players including mine the disc is held down by a powerful magnetic "puck" which i am sure would destroy any previous demagnetization of the disc itself, but if it works for you good luck to you.
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Hi electrohead. Just wondered if the magnet in your cd player is there for the very purpose of demagnetizing your cd's? cant see any other reason for it to be there. very interesting. - what make is player. thanks carl.
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Carl, The CD player i use is an electrocompaniet emc1 up 24/192 upsampleing model , it is a top loader using a phillips cd pro 2 transport mechanism , the magnetic "puck" is placed on top of the disc to clamp it to the transport mechanism and stop the disc spinning off the centre spindle . See http://www.electrocompaniet.no As far as i know it has nothing to do with disc magnetization.
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electrohead, Checked out your cd player on site and I've got to say *IMPRESSIVE*if it sounds as good as it looks given the specs then i am in awe and envious - but this mere mortal will never get to that sort of hifi Nirvana. thanks for the link enjoyed the read. carl. ps what was the outher subject that started this conversation off???!!!!!
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 Just wondered if the magnet in your cd player is there for the very purpose of demagnetizing your cd's? cant see any other reason for it to be there
Placing a permanent magnet in contact with anything ferrous (i.e. susceptible to magnetism) will in fact transfer some magnetism to the latter - the disc. So, if it is in fact possible to transfer significant magnetism to an object made largely of plastic, this would tend to magnetise not demagnetise the object in question.
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