I started out with Auric Illuminator then moved to the harder stuff like Auric Illuminator II, Jena Labs, Nanotech 8500, and wound up with Liquid Resolution, now out of production. Replaced Liquid Rez with EOM and couldn't be more pleased. I can't stop now. |
What is the chemical makeup? Heck, if I knew I'd make it myself. Hel-loo! |
What's stays there when you apply EOM? It apparently doesn't leave any residue. If you think something remains after treatment I'd be curious to hear what you think the product is doing. Just curious. |
Where is Clark Johnsen when you need him? He reviewed a bunch of CD treatments including Jena Labs, Nanotech 8500, Ultrabit, Liquid Res, Optirx, CD Clarity, Auric Illuminator and others in his article Lotions Eleven in Positive Feedback Online but that was quite a few year ago. What we need now is some exceptionally patient individual to step up to the plate and compare all the latest and greatest CD treatments. One wonders if there's any advantage to using more than one treatment, say Nanotech 8500 and Essence of Music. |
So, what do you think the stuff is doing to the disc, you know, to be able to get more info from the disc? Just curious... |
The word invisible can be a little bit misleading since the way CDs work is based on several things, not the least of which are laser wavelength and width, geometry of the disc and CD transport, the index of refraction of polycarbonate and the transparency of the polycarbonate layer of the disc -which is in fact not perfectly transparent. The transparency of polycarbonate is only around 90% or so so even if a particular CD treatment is absolutely transparent to the laser light (infrared) the clear layer is still 90% transparent at best. One would also prefer a CD treatment NOT to affect the Index of Refraction of the polycarbonate layer since that could aftect the geometry that has all been worked out already, no? |
I kind of doubt they examined the CDs they treated during the review. Why would they? Who would have thought the micro fiber cloth would scratch a freakin CD? Hel-looo! |
One must be very careful of the cloths supplied as they might scratch the CDs. Someone dropped the ball on this one. This is very very unfortunate as I alerted my dealer some time ago about this issue. In any case, stop using their cloths and switch to the medical non scratch type of cotton cloth immediately if not sooner. |
They are lint free but not sterile. But the point is they won't scratch the CDs. Don't use them on a gash on your arm. Lol |
The secret methinks is using the right cotton cloth. Since I switched to the sterile cotton cloth (recommended to me by the inventor of EOM) I have not experienced any more scratches. It's is extremely unlikely the problem is with the liquids as they are quite pure and very fine sprays are produced by the spray bottles. It is possible but unlikely that whilst rubbing the CD with the forefinger after spraying the CD with EOM some dirt on the finger could produce scratches. |
Ghost, I don't have the name of the sterile cotton cloths, sorry, can I suggest contacting the fellow who sells EOM. The link to the EOM web site is,
Essence-of-music.com
Hope that helps.
GK |
Ghost, Ooops, I just found the pack of cloths I couldn't find yesterday. They were in the last place I looked. Lol they are Caldrea lint free cleaning cloths, 100% cotton, 6 pack of large cloths, 16" by 26" - $24.99 all day long on Amazon.com |
Yes, I always make sure there is no sand or dirt or small boulders in the liquid or on the CDs. I also never ever treat the CDs during a sandstorm or mudslides or typhoons.
;-) |
Liquid Resolution was in the top three for sure but went away when Brian Kyle RIP of Extreme AV passed a couple years ago. I only bring it out, what's left, for special occasions. |
