If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically...

Thanks for the recommend brauser. Thanks for finding places for us to get one zimick and Willy-T. Mines now on order. Sight & Sound in Atlanta carries the Densen De-Magic Demagnetizing CD. Can’t vouch for S&S having never purchased anything there. New owners, please report here how well your disc works after it arrives, or prior to that if you’re prescient.

Mike Muad’Dib

Audioguy,, why do you think the demagnetizing function is absurd? I’m not being sarcastic, just curious. Some tweaks are obviously scams, but it’s sounds possible this might not be one of them. So I wonder why you think it may be, especially since I spent the twenty bucks to try it out. Not a huge amount, but still...

I’ll post anecdotal impressions after it arrives and is tried. Very well possible I may have been hustled out of twenty bucks, But not being an audio engineer I’m curious to know why it may or not, or should or should not work. Let us know your thoughts on this. Thanks,

Mike

Concerning the built up static the Ayres CD may be impacting, has anyone used the Zerostat anti-static gun on their equipment and wiring to good effect. I think it was originally designed for use with records.

I’ve not used mine for decades, but still have it. You can check out the second half of the following video to see how it works on records and maybe CD’s. Maybe it would work the same way as the Walker Talisman device fleschler described. could work on demagnification.

Free advice: Do not point the Zerostat gun at your wife and slowly squeeze the trigger when she is giving you static.

A copy of the Ayre disc, the 1.2 version, arrived yesterday. I tried out track seven on it, the one that supposed to demagnetize. I listened to Joni Mitchell’s Blue and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball CD’s on my Marantz KI Ruby CD player both before and after using the disc.

I honestly could not detect any difference in the music after using the Ayre’s disc Track 7, which contains the ’Full Glide Tone". I’ll try again after playing all seven of the tracks through and report back. Maybe trying it out using some other CD’s before and after may make a difference. I’m listening to Herbie Hancock’s Blue Note "My Point of View" CD right now. I’ll try that plus something else and report back,

Mike

Here’s a curious aside. I unfortunately had no luck with the Ayre’s disc, But as bad luck occurs in pairs, today we’ve had a power outage locally, now going on for the past seven hours. In response I hooked up my Honda generator to power the house. It can run the essentials at home during an outage, which includes the stereo equipment and computer, and supposedly produces a perfect sine wave..

Out of curiosity I played Joni Mitchell’s Blue CD again which I’d used to test the Ayres disc. With the generator running the album sounded remarkably good. Her voice and the instrumentation sounded more clear, well defined and detailed than ever before. I was kind of hoping the Ayre’s disc might have an effect along these lines. I then tried out Coltrane’s Live at Newport and replicated this listening experience.

Having a Shunyata Denali power conditioner already in place I wouldn’t have anticipated much of a difference with a different power source, but go figure.. I needed someplace to express this oddball listening experience. Sorry for intruding on this fine thread.

Mike