I have yet to buy one but this does make a positive difference that like others here I attribute to disc balance that mitigates laser tracking error.
I visited a dealer in San Jose a couple of years back and had my remastered Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" with me; my wife and I listened before and after this process was performed on the CD. No changes were made to the playback system during the "desking" process. Very discernable improvement in detail and clarity to the modified disc.
Since then I have "double blind" compared this with audio friends to one of theirs (same catalog release) and the improvement was unanimously detectable. It was too easy; in fact I wish every tweak was this apparent. It could be that the comparative discs were way out of balance to begin with.
I'm sold but have a hard time justifying the price so haven't purchased one yet.
Any homebrew solutions I'm all ears and eyes.
I visited a dealer in San Jose a couple of years back and had my remastered Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" with me; my wife and I listened before and after this process was performed on the CD. No changes were made to the playback system during the "desking" process. Very discernable improvement in detail and clarity to the modified disc.
Since then I have "double blind" compared this with audio friends to one of theirs (same catalog release) and the improvement was unanimously detectable. It was too easy; in fact I wish every tweak was this apparent. It could be that the comparative discs were way out of balance to begin with.
I'm sold but have a hard time justifying the price so haven't purchased one yet.
Any homebrew solutions I'm all ears and eyes.