OK, i'll bite: what is being demagnetized?
If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically...
I would rather imagine that most audiophiles are aware of this, but if not, may I recommend a very easy tweak that has always produced positive results in every system I've had:
Ayre - Irrational, But Efficacious!
Densen - DeMagic
These are System Enhancement Discs which reduces magnetism that has built up during playback. I'm pretty sure there are other products that purport to do the same thing. These two have certainly worked for me. Good listening!!
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@millercarbon - how does EFM get distorted, without resulting in a a bit error? There is no timing synch at that point of the recovery chain....
Was "greed pen" a typo? I DID try a green marker back in the day. It clearly made the edge green. |
Seriously? Like you haven't seen my posts or followed my links on why the "digital" input signal is in fact quasi-analog. Anyhow.
That assertion carries a HUGE caveat; whether it is truly digital or quasi-analog depends where and when in the signal chain.
When the signal hist the DAC chip, timing matters nad that's analog. Until then, no. And in the magnitude domain (what's coded in the 16, 18, 24 bits), why yes, it is purely digital and very robust.
Now, the optical CD itself is different yet again, and no traditional digital. You either ignored my reference to EFM or don't know what i is. EFM (eight-to-fourteen modulation) is the coding format of pits on the CD. It is in fact quasi analog, but has full error detection and then correction after decoding - so impacts are known. And uncorrected ones are very rare.
So, at that point: 1. The "digital stream" is minimally, if at all, at risk 2. it is optical not electrical, and therefore magnetism is even less relevant So yea, it is on you to explain this. Arguments like the one you mad here continue to confuse the issue and give naysayers ammunition. Yes! We need to deal with the analog timing component. No! i doesn't matter anywhere except right at the input to the DAC (assuming, for simplicity, a traditional PCM ladder DAC).
So all, we need to be careful about this - details matter. |