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TAS Recommended CD Tweak….


In The August issue of The Absolute Sound, RH gives a glowing review of a product from Digital Systems & Solutions – “UltraBit Platinum Optical Impedance Matching Disc Treatment System.” According to RH, he was floored and, “….This wasn’t a subtle difference; there was a wholesale increase in apparent resolution, space, clarity, soundstage dimensions, and vividness.”
Apparently, this is a liquid solution that is applied to CDs and DVDs ($65/bottle).

Regardless of the whole “advertising thing,” I don’t believe someone like RH would put his reputation on the line by giving a bogus review. I wonder what, “This wasn’t a subtle difference…” means to the average person’s ears?

Also, in the same article, RH makes the statement, “…Similarly, it’s incontrovertible that a CD-R burned from a CD sounds better than the original CD.” I did not know this. Have any of you come to the same conclusion?
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drubin
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It's not been true in my experience but I am trying as hard as I can to find out how to you can get to that result.
drubin
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So why do people bother with EAC and CD Paranoia and whatnot? Is there any reason to use those products over ripping via iTunes, for example?

Shadorne, there are many audiophiles, even some with credibility, who claim that copies of CDs actually sound better than the originals. How can this be?
drubin
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You may all remember some of the earlier discussion of the Memory Player. If my memory serves, Robert Harley and others argued, as Shadorne has, that Read Until Right can not be the reason the player sounds good, if indeed it does. It's not about RUR for the reasons Shadorne outlines. And yet, there still seems to be something going on. Because Harley himself has said that copies can sound better.

I remember a little paragraph blurb in an early issue of Wired magazine in which they took aim at something Reference Recordings was doing (direct-to-CD, I think it may have been), claiming that clearly RR didn't understand digital technology or they wouldn't being doing what they were doing. Guess what? I'm pretty sure it was this author who didn't know what he was doing, who knew just enough about digital to be dangerous. These people are everywhere, trying to save us poor souls from the deceptions of charlatans. That's good, but things are often not as simple as they first appear to be.
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