Anyone use CD tweaks


I was wondering about the effectiveness of products hyped to improved sound quality - i.e. products like Maple Shade's "Mikro Smooth" for polishing CDs and their "Optrix" surfactant product. You want to believe these claims, but sometimes they sound too good to be true. Anyone with any experience with these or similar CD enhancers??

Thanks in advance...
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I use a Hammond bulk tape eraser and demag all my cd, dvds.

I also run my CD player on it's own 20 amp dedicated line,into a Hydra 2 and I use a Shunyata Annaconda Helix power cord.

The sound is much better this way , it rivals my lp set up.

The cd player is an Audio Aero Capitole 24/192.
Interesting, I also do the sanding, black hole treatment to my cds ,just prior to a demag.

Just run your finger around the edge of a cd and you'll feel a lot of ridges and irregularities.

I was given a demo of the Geman disc cutting machine for cd's and got hooked on trying to do the same at home without the machine.

It works for me.

Those ridges theoretically would influence the spin of the discs in a cd player and perhaps are a source of jitter.

Now all you need to do is try to demag your cd's and lp's.

I should add that I only demag the lps ,cds and dvds.

All other parts of the system are not, but share the benefits.