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Synergistic Research Acoustic ART- any comments?
Norm Luttbeg did a review on Dagogo. 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Somehow this was posted before I finished. I was only going to say that the Walker Ultra-Vivid did allow cd players to play both. 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
I used Rain-X many years ago on many cds. I have seen no adverse effect on any of them. I have used UltraBit Platinum after discarding George's linty rags. It is not as good, IMHO, as his earlier products. I used his ClearBit as a cleaner until I ... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
In the 1850s, about the same time that the first perpetual motion clock was attempted, the miasma theory of how cholera was widely believed by all scientists. Cholera, they thought, came from bad air and bad air came from human excrement. They "kn... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Everyone's comments on using Rain-X on car motivated me to use the now 2 year old Rain-X that I tried on my car windows.I still maintain that a commitment to an existing theory of what explains observations that dismisses new observations is funda... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Eldartford, yea, and many believed in alchemy. Please read what I said about treated disc, in my experience not sounding any different. I have withstood some grief about that from others more accustomed to listening first.Shadorne, at last you are... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Shadorne, yes, but how to you account for the differences in sound that I described? Please don't say we only think we heard them. The room at the RMAF was full of skeptics who only tolerated John Tucker doing this on his system. All muttered disb... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Eldartford, if you rip the same disc to a harddrive, once without the Millennium cd mat and once with it both using the same software and hardware (with Exact Copy reporting no errors and the same confidence) and then listen in the identical syste... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Shadorne, You mock, "What we "clearly observe" is the truth. Our perceptions are reality." How do you think we came up with the laws of engineering?Eldartford, again, I don't understand your logic. If the ear is the best measurement device and it ... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Shadorne, the belief in the Placebo effect to explain clear observation is unscientific. Selectivity bias works both ways as if you don't want to hear a benefit you will not. If people hear a difference and the precepts of engineering cannot expla... 
Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment
Guys, I haven't been following this thread, but I must say it is the most civil discussion on this I have ever read.I should say that I have spent a career testing methods and statistics as well as doing the best science I could given the difficul... 
Storing Cd's on Hard Disk
Drubin, I had not thought about that, but yes I don't think it would work. 
Storing Cd's on Hard Disk
Drubin, yes all discs were redone using the Millennium mat. The sound was more dynamic and the sound stage more encompassing with the disc used while ripping, strange as that seems. 
Storing Cd's on Hard Disk
I don't wish to muddy the waters, but I have multiple instances where two errorless WAVs of the same cd sound quite different. In one instance it is a cd with and without AVM spray painted label. The others use a Millennium CD disc used on the cd ... 
Storing Cd's on Hard Disk
I think there is the temptation to think that software is all that is important and that any computer's hard drive will survive. In my experience, this is far from the truth. I own four Macs yet I use one as a remote desktop to control my Exemplar...