Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's

Dear Rushton, when you say it works, what could possibly be happening that improves LPs, CDs, cables, and most of all speakers!? (we do know that cone speakers depend upon magnets in order to work. You don't want to demagnetize them.) I have great respect for Walker, but I remain skeptical. Was your group experiment carried out under double blind conditions?

Doug, I am really surprised to read that your nephew thinks the effect may be to reduce or alter static charge. Can you ask him how that could be, when one generally thinks of magnetic fields as they relate to ferrous materials and not at all to static electricity? I would love to understand more about this. Any "molecules" that are affected would have to be iron-containing ones and thus inorganic (generally meaning, molecules not containing carbon or nitrogen; altho some organic molecules, e.g., hemoglobin, can hold ferrous ions based on charge). Surprised also to learn that there is iron, or ferrous compounds, in the vinyl of an LP; that's the first fact that leads me to believe there could be something to this. But ferrous materials in CDs and DVDs? OK. I will be the demag soon.

Should read, "I will be GETTING the demag soon."

Sorry, Doug. You must be correct, Peter. Question now goes to Mike L. I am a biologist who was always fascinated by physics.

This topic is really quite interesting, and I am trying to brush up on the physics of it. One further bit of advice that I came across elsewhere was to be sure to turn on the demagnetizer when it is well away (>3ft, according to one source) from the object to be demagnetized. Then bring it in close and do as Doug describes. One source said to move the demag away from the magnet "slow, as molasses in January". I presume the author meant January in a cold climate.

So the contrary experiment would be to deliberately use the demag incorrectly so as to magnetize the LP (in theory; if that is possible). All sources warn that incorrect use of a demagnetizer can result in magnetization, if that is a word. Magnetizing a demagnetized LP should make it sound "bad", if what one is hearing is actually due to magnetism. It would make for an interesting double-blind experiment. Moreover, one could respond to any non-believer that the reason they did not hear a big improvement after demagnetizing is that they did not do it right.

Doug's directions and everything else I read about moving the demagnetizer away from the object slowly, etc, make me wonder about the Furutech. Isn't the Furutech like a big pancake maker? AFAIK, you insert the LP into the Furutech, turn it on, then remove the LP after it is "cooked". The Furutech does not effect a gradual change in physical distance between its plates and the LP surface. Perhaps instead it is programmed so that its field strength starts high and slowly is reduced until the demag process is completed, thereby effecting the same thing as physically moving a demagnetizer of constant field strength.

Dear Doug, You and Einstein. I knew it.