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Re: A couple of questions for all you CD demagnetists out there.

By "do the business" I mean, "does it perform as advertised". You're right in your assertion that I'm not really looking a scientific answer (although that might be interesting); it's something I couldn't take part in as I don't have that sort of background. I'm looking for people's experiences with these units.

That's a rather difficult question to answer as literally anything will "perform as advertised" to some number of people. Even those things which at the physical level do nothing at all. Peter Belt used to sell safety pins with several nuts and washers strung on it which you were to pin on your shirt while listening. It was claimed to improve the sound of your audio system by polarizing your body. For best results you were to drink water which had been polarized by it as well.

Many people who tried it claimed that it performed as advertised.

So the question is if you care whether or not the demagnetizers perform as advertised at the physical level or the psychological level.

It's an interesting point you make about the Bedini being a magnetizer, could you elaborate? I scurried over to the Bedini website after I read your comment, just to see if I'd misread their claims. Right enough, at no time do Bedini claim that their product demagnetizes -- they have reviews that say as much, but all their official blurb says about the technical aspects of the process is that the Clarifier polarizes the polymer in such a way as to maximize the laser's ability to retrieve stored data. Means nothing to me.

And it doesn't mean anything to anyone but Bedini. It's just a bunch of gibberish. The guy inhabits some bizarre parallel universe. You should read his claims in his patent. He claims that by simply spinning a CD in a magnetic field causes the data to not only be compressed (such as with a data compression scheme like ZIP) but the compressed data is also physically rearranged on the disc.

The guy's a complete flake.

As for being a magnetizer, the Clarifier simply spins the disc above a fixed magnetic field which would magnetize any magnetizable material. To demagnetize something, you need to expose it to an alternating magnetic field (alternating in terms of polarity) the magnitude of which gradually diminishes over time.

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