Spay for CD

My wife says she will "spay" me if I keep trying to tweak things.

Cat got your tongue? 

L’Art du Son the best by far? Really? Compared to what?

@ebm   The OP is a relative newbie.  He/she may not have been around for that thread.🙃

My pleasure - audiosensgood advice on various products and techniques as above.Keep me posted on the one(s) that you try.
Happy Listening!

Jafant,
 Thank you I will try...
 Good to see you - lostbearsit is a cool concept and even cooler product (AudioDesk CD Sound Improver). I buy CD/SACDs from a gentleman whom uses this device.I have never read a bad report, I believe it exhibits a positive effect.Happy Listening!

Yess geoffkait,

I would probably look into the fact that magnetisim do a lot in this process...

OK, have it your way. Light is not affected by magnetic fields. Then how can you explain why demagnetizing a CD improves the sound? 

 Light is not effected by magnetic fields so drop that as an issue for reading the CD, only after it has been converted to electrical signals will it be effected by the magnetic fields. vibrations, out of round, miss reads etc are the issues and no amount of snake oil on the CD will stop that. clean scratch free CD is the best we can do.    

Try the Audiotop CD treatment. 

@roberjerman   +1 to Geoff pointing out the analog nature of the reading of the binary digital code.   Any "tweaks" that enable your player or transport to read the digital data on your silver discs will yield sonic benefits.  As far as "Spaying", I treat every CD or SACD with Rain-X.  No, it's not just for windshields!💿📀

roberjerman
Digital data storage is not analog-like at all! It exists independent of the physical properties of the storage medium! This is the revolutionary change in music storage and retrieval! Analog- like fixes do not apply (sprays, green pens, trimming the edges,weighted pucks, demagnitizers ... ).

>>>>Actually, while it’s true the physical data on a CD is unalterable, the process of reading the data is an analog process, an optical process. And therein lies the problem. Because the laser reading process is not perfect, even with Reed Solomon codes and laser servo mechanism, the physical data is subject to misinterpretation/error caused by any of a variety of things, vibration of the CD transport, background scattered laser light, magnetic fields, static electric charge, and others, even the color of the CD label.

Don’t be a digital denier. Join the thousands of happy campers who use vibration isolation, coloring of CD, beveling the edges of CDs, demagnetizers, static charge neutralizers, CD sprays, whatever they can think of to improve the sound. Don’t be an ostrich.

Don’t be a cube, rube, go ape!

Audiophiles would be happier if CD players and transports were tweakable like turntables! Alas ...

Digital data storage is not analog-like at all! It exists independent of the physical properties of the storage medium! This is the revolutionary change in music storage and retrieval! Analog- like fixes do not apply (sprays, green pens, trimming the edges,weighted pucks, demagnitizers ... ).

A false belief that spraying something on a CD will somehow improve It. Nonsense! Keep them clean and scratch-free. Isopropanol is an effective cleaner for smudged and dirty CD's.

Geoff....? Your turn

And what if the CD identifies as male?

"If at first you don't succeed, keep sucking until you do suck seed.
-Curly Howard

I was unaware people could negative IQs until you showed up.

I am rubber and you are glue.... 
2 is your IQ

You have the number 2 on your mind.

You really have the number 12 on your mind.....

Funny, but in a demented 12 year old kind of way.

Geoff... "I didn't get off" ....
you may need the updated

Geoff.... "It might have been updated to lotions twelve"
you mentioned the "wishful thinking"....

All the lonely morons. Where do they all come from?

Try some groove-glide

Wishful thinking? Feeling itchy?

Geoff "I've had a lot of them over the years"....

Geoff... "Kind of been a while". Lotions (of) Eleven (inch) Johnson
Freudian slip?

Good to see you - lostbearsit is a cool concept and even cooler product (AudioDesk CD Sound Improver). I buy CD/SACDs from a gentleman whom uses this device.I have never read a bad report, I believe it exhibits a positive effect.Happy Listening!

On the other hand, 'Spaying' can relieve the hysterical vibrations... ;-)

 The best product I have seen for CDs is the  AudioDesk CD Sound Improver. It trims and balances the CD so it has less jitter and is easier to read. We did tests ripping a CD and then ripping it again after using the AudioDesk. The CDs we tried all ripped around 10% quicker after the AudioDesk. Which means that there were less errors that had to be re-read. 

There was a CD treatment shootout quite some time ago. Lotions Eleven by the illustrious Clark Johnsen in Positive Feedback. It might have been updated to Lotions Twelve. Kind of been a while. 😳 I’ve had a lot of em over the years, Liquid Resolution was Top Dog, and would you believe I stumbled on my stash of Liquid Res just last week? Oh, my! I didn’t get off on Essence of Music. Optrix is OK. Jena Labs is very good.

audiosens
there are several products that will clean and shine your CDs. The price will vary, opinions will vary as well. Trial-and-error testing for best outcome.As above, Optrix CD Cleaner, is very good and priced lower than other competitors.Happy Listening!

I've heard good things about this
https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/optrix-cd-cleaner-clarifier

New thread...
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-there-any-really-good-cd-cleaners-out-there?highlight=CD%...

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