I have been using furniture polish on my cd's for a couple years now. I have been happy with the more analog sound it creates. Better focus, less harsh and such.
I never knew what the expensive products such as Walker ultra vivid and others would be like in comparison. I figured at 68 times more expensive the Walker type products have to be better.
Well, I finally bought some Walker ultra vivid and was eager to see what I've been missing the last couple years. My wife actually did the comparison with me. We did this using a cd cleaner to reclean the cd afterwards and did the comparison several times to verify our findings of the two products.
It was intersting, but my wife said it first that the Walker did not sound as good. She said it even before I had a chance to say it first that the female voice on one of the songs had a harshness. I agreed with the same findings. Simply, the Walker was more fatigueing with the digital brightness.
Now, I would have liked to of tried several of the other types of cd fluids during this same time, but I at least knew that the furniture polish over the last two years was not a waste of time.
I am curious if anyone has tried something that works good like furniture polish or did some type of comparisons.
I have actually wanted to compare a couple different furniture polishes I have in my home theater but have not. I have settled Old English due to it being a bit thicker then others. Pledge may be a bit easier to wipe off.
I don't buy that furniture polish eats the factory laquer. I remember reading so many years ago in those home tips type books and they where recommending furniture polish on cds for helping if you have cd's that skip. I know someone years ago using it for that purpose and the cd's are still good from what I been informed.
I suppose if your a maker of these cd fluid type products you may say that it eats laquer on cds. It basically just puts a protective wax coating on it.
If this stuff gets on the laser, the least it will do is make it harder for the disc to be read without errors. If you are actually hearing different sound, it's probably because the player's error corection is filling in the blanks.
I have been using ZYMOL(very good car polish) for about 2 years. apply it with microfiber lightly,(several times around the disc) and remove with Microfiber in the same manner. Then play the Disc once you have lightly buffed all the polish off, and you will be absolutly amazed at what you here.
Shine Ola is a pure cleaner made by Record Research Lab. Very useful for removing mold-release compound. I use it prior to treating discs with Jena Labs 3D-X, which I've found to be the best treatment out there--and I've tried and owned most of them.
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