If you were serious about sound you would...

@mbmi  Ok this is going to sound weird but why would you do anything to change the sound of your CDs, here’s what I’m saying, imaging being wider doesn’t mean it right and imaging is really a phasing principle that makes the sound hit your ears at different times, you could introduce a digital delay that hold the signal and then enhances right and left "imagining" easy, you don’t want to change your music you want to get everything out of it you can. Now note how many people on this forum say imaging, tighter bass and such does that mean it is correct, there is no way to know unless you use standardized equipment. You probably didn’t mean to but you showed a good point in my argument. Best

OK....Time for some schooling : A cd has information on the disc that is READ by the laser and then it is fed back into the Receiver in the cd player that takes that information and turns it into music...THE PROBLEM with cd’s is that they are mass produced and under a microscope their surface is extremely PITTED....Still with me?.......The Armour- All fills in the crevices and pits and make a smooth shinny surface so when the info on the disc (Music) comes back up to the READER , It’s NOT diffused and scattered ....You’re only getting 85-90% of the info back to the reader......Fill in the PITS and the laser is clean and direct and receive 97-100% of the information (Music) that’s on the disc.....Just try it and you’ll agree......It’s a beautiful scientific and Musical thing and Armour-All will PRESERVE , not destroy you’re discs. It’s not a widely published Fact because there’s NO $$$ in it for the reviewers or companies.....Don’t knock something that works until you’ve tried it !!!!!!!!!!!

@mbmi Love that idea, here is why digital is cool. the handshake between the sender and receiver is either a 1 or a 0 so there’s really no room for error that is the power of digital. Of course there are other errors in the system like timing issues and such but the 1 or 0 is always there in digital. This is why we used to mass copy reel to reel tapes backwards because the waveform was easier to copy from the fade out to the transient start so you copy backwards. With digital the copy is perfect that’s why copy write protection didn’t kick in until digital because analog has it’s own degradation built in. You can’t get 85% of a digital to play after a transfer. Even if a recording was made at 48kHz then played back at 48.048kHz it will sputter and pop and that number isn’t even close to 85% of each other. Am I misunderstanding your point?

Bottom Line....It's better to get 100% of the information than 90% of the information....It's a cheap way to preserve your discs and get ALL the info that you were meant to hear...Works great on dvd's too.   Enjoy!

@mbmi No, I don't want to belabor this but I've set up many many digital recording setups (scars to prove it) and if the 1s and 0 are not exactly shaking hands the system will not work. This tells you many things for instance digital cables if they work they work perfectly and that 1k$ digital cable that they said gave you more imaging and tighter bass was not exactly accurate.