In Reply to: Your opinions of the black CDR controversy appreciated posted by sgb on April 7, 2003 at 10:55:23:
I don't like the idea of copying all my cd's onto black cd-r's to get that extra bit of goodness out of the medium, but I have an idea of why it might work.Probably the black cd-r's don't demand as much from the power supply to read them. The less the servo motors have to speed up, slow down and otherwise move around to read the disc, the less the motors make varying demands on the power supply. Fluctuations in the power supply to the servo motors result in fluctuations in the power supply to the clocks at issue, thus causing time errors. Black cd-r's must present power supplies with a more uniform, even demand of the servo motors.
I'm no expert; just another audiophool who's wasted too much time reading about tweaks I've never actually tried. Nevertheless, the power supply fluctuation explanation of why so many jitter-reducing tweaks work is the only one that made sense to my untrained mind.
I'll just have to put the black cd-r experiment on the list; right after the rollerblocks/air bladder isolation, more tube traps, DIY power cables, CAT5 speaker cables, DIY interconnects, quadratic residue diffusors, balanced power transformers, RFI/EMI filters, dedicated lines, cryogenic treatment, bybee filters, room acoustic analysis software, sandbags, cable risers, shakti stones and DIY holographs. Did I miss anything?
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Follow Ups
- More to put on the to do list.... - PranaBindu 04/7/0313:01:09 04/7/03 (14)
- Ummm-- I think the reason is something else - Ross 10:08:23 04/8/03 (11)
- 1's and 0's.... - PranaBindu 11:54:12 04/8/03 (10)
- CD "greening" a myth, and importance of jitter is greatly exaggerated (long-ish) - djprobed 13:22:30 04/8/03 (9)
- Re: CD "greening" a myth, and importance of jitter is greatly exaggerated (long-ish) - Ehien 22:10:11 04/10/03 (0)
- Re: CD "greening" a myth, and importance of jitter is greatly exaggerated (long-ish) - Jon Risch 10:35:54 04/10/03 (1)
- Corrected URL - Jon Risch 10:38:12 04/13/03 (0)
- I'm with you... - Ehien 21:41:34 04/10/03 (0)
- Re: CD "greening" a myth, and importance of jitter is greatly exaggerated (long-ish) - highendman 20:50:05 04/8/03 (2)
- Re: CD "greening" a myth, and importance of jitter is greatly exaggerated (long-ish) - Jon M 10:31:52 04/18/03 (0)
- The article itself, yes; the attached document, on the other hand... - djprobed 08:43:37 04/9/03 (0)
- My experiences.... - PranaBindu 14:15:21 04/8/03 (1)
- Controlling for variables in an experiment - djprobed 08:58:31 04/9/03 (0)
- Re: More to put on the to do list.... - sgb 13:17:31 04/7/03 (1)
- Actually... - PranaBindu 14:48:06 04/7/03 (0)