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Oh no, there's metal in your records!
If the magnets of the cartridge attracts them why are they on the stylus and cantilever? 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
theaudiotweakoh Geoff you ass ume everyone else is ignorant..We made our own mats years ago that address many issues no others ever did or have since. I treated my entire PS audio transport tray and laser housing long ago with paint and AVM>>... 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
theaudiotweakThe tray assembly and surrounding parts have been treated for years. My comments were to color not just the tray but all the other surfaces that refract light. The whole damn innards of the chassis if possible. Actually the trays have... 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
Uh, I’ve only had a turquoise tray masking product for like 12 years. Hel-loo! Do you think these hands have been soaking in Ivory Liquid? 😛 As you can probably image I have a similar product for Blu-ray discs. Pop quiz: But what about the invisib... 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
I posted a paper on the subject on my website some years back. The Green Pen and beyond....http://machinadynamica.com/machina23.htm 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
The wavelength of the CD laser is nominal 780 nm, solidly in the near infrared spectrum. But the laser is not monochromatic, it has a bandwidth due to its quantum nature and also to its cheapness. That bandwidth probably extends from, say, 650 nm ... 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
The laser’s real wavelength, the one that’s 780 nm, is invisible and not affected by color. Not by green, turquoise, blue or black, etc. The best you can do with green or turquoise is absorb some of the lower sideband - the stuff below 700 nm. It’... 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
theaudiotweakOn the cd topper I would say that the change is electromagnetic shielding or absorption and it could also be absorbing stray light bouncing off the cd edges and bouncing around inside the chassis. Less light emission inside means ther... 
Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions?
“Only quote facts.” 🤠 
Phil Collins Remasters
I’ve oft wondered about that. That is I wondered how the Japanese were able to obtain the original tapes. Do they just give them out to anyone who asks? 
Room color opinions
Institutional Green was the favorite color for rooms inside mental institutions, hospitals and prisons for like forever. Green, especially that particular dreary and putrid shade of green was assumed by almost everyone to have a calming effect on ... 
Room color opinions
Even in the dark does the brain 🧠 know colors are there, you know, even when you can’t see them with your eyes? 👀 You know, like ESP. 😳 Let’s take the case of the colored magnets, does the effect go away when you turn out the lights? I think not. 
Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement
Out of the black hole into the worm hole? 😳 
Phil Collins Remasters
One need look no further than the Offical Dynamic Range Database to see the progressive onslaught of aggressive dynamic range compression that has been occurring for the last 20 years. This is true for not only CDs but also vinyl and even SACD and... 
Room color opinions
I don’t mean to be difficult but sound is the same thing as perception of sound. What you perceive to be the sound IS the sound. In other words, the sound you hear is not (rpt not) really completely determined by the enclosed system - the system c...