Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's

I hire a Indian medicine man before playing. He dances a bit, sometimes with his son when I have a new cartridge at the same time, with some luck it rains outside in the garden and it sounds definitely better after that.

I have a GENEVA brand bulk audio/video tape eraser. I bought it for $99 about
ten years ago and don't know if it is still available. It does make a difference.
The sound is cleaner/clearer and dynamics are improved.

LP's do get magnetized. I've read that it is not the ink on the label, it is the
metal in the vinyl formula that is used to make it black. Over time it picks up a
charge. I don't really know the how or why, but I do notice an improvement. I
demag an LP once after I clean it. It is part of my cleaning regimen. I also use
the Cardas sweep LP once a week to degauss the system.

The more revealing a system is, the more noticeable this stuff is, IMO.

Half the price of the Talisman, way more effective.

Hand held demagnetizer

As Tzh21y says, I've had great success with the Walker Audio Talisman and use it as part of my regular LP playing routine. I also use it on my cables and speaker dynamic drivers weekly.

Last week, we had a group of 35 members of our local audio group together. The topic for the meeting was to share tweaks you find effective. The system was an all digital system and I demo'd applying the Talisman to CDs. Everyone heard a very positive improvement in the sound. Then I demo'd applying the Talisman to the cables and speaker drives. Unanimously, everyone heard yet a further very positive improvement in the sound of the system.

Highly recommended for vinyl, CDs, and your system cables and speaker drivers. It really does work.
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The Radio Shack bulk tape eraser works well. It was discontinued some years ago but is available at very good prices on Ebay. For LPs and CDs and interconnects.

I have heard the results and they they areastouding to say the least. The Furutech Demag certainly does the job. The difference is not subtle. I wonder about the Walker device. Rushton says it works. If it is anything close to the results that the Furutech demag, it is a steal.

Yes, the concept is valid. No, you don't have to spend much at all, not even $200. The results do vary from lp to lp.

Mag/demag can have a profound effect on tubes and cables, but don't try this while they are in the system. Remove them and do the deed on a table a good distance from your cartridge.

With digital discs the results are more uniform and profound.

Supposedly, the Tourmaline treatment stuff (negative ions) has even better results but needs to be applied more often. I haven't tried this myself but there is some good evidence to support the claimed results.

Records are made from non-magnetic materials. They can't be magnetised so there's no need to waste time and money trying to "demagnetise" them. And please don't dish up the nonsense about transition metal ions in the printing ink on the label. These are present in such low concentrations as to have a negligible effect.

Now I'll await the hordes of buyers of demagnetisers who spent several hundred dollars and definitely heard an improvement.

They used to sell a hand held demagnetizer to demagnetize recording tape. Radio Shack sold one for about $10, you passed it over a reel of tape to erase it. I threw mine out long ago. If it demagnetizes why wouldn`t it work over Lp`s same as the super expensive ones they sell now? Would like to find one to see if it would.
Len W

Walker Audio Talisman - $225 - it works.
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