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

Steve,

Thanks for the feedback and info. Nice to discuss this subject intelligently.

Concur 100% with the statement that aluminum is paramagnetic and no need to demagnetize it.

I posted this elsewhere recently but I'll summarize again:

I went to an audio club meeting here in Japan. There was a CD degausing machine. Put the CD in the machine and a green light comes on. Push a button and the green light goes off after the degauss. Flip the CD and repeat until thoroughly happy.

A few folks agreed that the CD sounded better after. I wasn't one of them.

I saw another fellow put a CD in the machine but never push the magic button. Every few minutes he'd flip the cd but he never pushed the magic button.

When the CD was played there was some general ooohing and aaahing and talk of how much better it sounded. I got a big kick out of that.

I'm still not saying that CD treatments don't make a difference. I have no right to tell another person what they hear or don't hear. I'm only saying that I've never heard any difference myself from any CD tweak. Then again I've been working near aircraft almost constantly since I was 19 years old and have recently developed some high freq hearing loss in my left ear. The range of loss is above what comes out of a speaker so technically it shouldn't affect anything however with no source and my amp and preamp on I can hear some hiss about 1 inch away from my tweeter. Turn to the left ear and I can't hear a thing.

I think it's entirely possible that some people are capable of hearing extremely subtle changes brought about by whatever. I can tell you though that I'm not one of those people.

I'll still stand by my statements that I don't think alum foil will strip electons off a cd and if it did they'll almost certainly get replaced either by handling or through rotation in the CD player.

Thanks again for your post.

John

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