Bedini Clarifier II, FuruTech RD-1 etc

Shayner, I just love to read posts from individuals like yourself. It's really comical how someone as yourself, a supposed audiophile, can make such a useless statement... "it would be too insignificant to have any effect". From this statement I can only draw the conclusion that you simply haven't even tried a product like the Furutech RD1 CD Demagnetizer. Note: you did not say that you can not hear a difference. You simply stated that "it would be too insignificant to have any effect". How the hell do you know? Did you try it? So then why don't you let everyone here know whether or not you have listened for yourself and drawn your own conclusion. You see, the major difference here is that dedicated audiophiles like myself will try near anything they get their hands on to improve their system performance and then audition for extended periods and ultimately decide if its' a step in the right direction and ultimately if its' worth the price. Well, in this system, the Furutech stayed. End of story!

Shayner, I'm sure you're a good guy too, and it's a shame you can't hear my system, so you would understand why I feel the way I do about various things. If you ever travel near me, come by.

Sam, I've also been wondering about the differences between the Bedini and the Furetech.I own a Bedini and am extremely pleased with the sonic improvements it provides.However,recently it seems utilizing the device produces what I believe is either a static build-up or a magnetizing of the disc.When the disc starts playing it skips terribly until I remove it and touch the bottom of the disc in the data area problably grounding the static/magnetic build-up.Discs not treated by the Bedini don't ever have this problem,but they also don't sound as good as the treated ones.I'd like to known if anyone else has experienced a similiar effect using their Bedini Ultra,and does the Furetech cause the same problem. Dennis

Dennis, I've not experienced that.

I do feel sorry for Shayner, as he either 1) do not have extra cash to try out new products, 2) do not have a good system to bring out all the detail and good stuff from a CD, 3) cannot hear any different and just say NO to everything. I can guarrantee that if anyone that has even a decent mid-fi audio system (of course with good cables as well), they will hear an improvement IF the tweak do work. If a cheap CD player that can't pick up all the necessary signal from the CD that it suppose to, I don't think the tweak will help much. I have the luxury to own both the Clarifier I, and the RD-1, plus I tried the Radio Shack thing once when my audiophile friend visited me and bought along the Radio Shack tweak. We do many experiments and here is our observation. The Radio Shack tweak do work BUT it is just a "Better than nothing". The improvement from both the Clarifier and RD-1 are much better. The interesting part is that the Clarifier and RD-1 do improve sonic characteristic in different aspect. One do improve the detail of the high and the image is more focus, while the other do get a tigher bass, but the image is not as good. These symptoms can be created as will, as if the sonic char. is added on to the CD. Every time you apply one tweak to the CD, you will get one sonic char. If you apply the other tweak to the same CD, you will get another sonic char. HOWEVER, if you use the tweaks in a particular order, they will combind the sonic char. of both tweak!! I just don't know why, and it just like magic. I certainly think the Clarifier II will improve over the Clarifier I, but I don't have the money yet. I am happy to apply those tweaks on your CDs if you send me a couple of them of the same title, and let you be the judge.