any comments on demagnitizing cds ?

05-07-06: Mrtennis
ok 9rw. i criticised a mnaufacturer for seliing. there is a difference
between a manufacturer and a consumer.

Actually, 9rw is correct on his point about selling in the
forums. Audiogon rules do not distinguish between dealers,
manufacturers or consumers.

From the Audiogon Moderation Guidelines:

What we will decline:
We hope to decline very few submissions, but we refuse to post
statements that take away from the usefulness of these forums. Here are
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Posts that are obviously trying to sell something.

In this post, you were obviously trying to sell something, Mrtennis:

05-07-06: Mrtennis
by the way, i think i'll take advantage of all this positive talk about
demagnetizing.

i will offer my rd 2 for sale for less than the 2 currently for sale are going
for.

i'll sell mine for $220.

just send me an email if you are interested:

rouyash04@yahoo.com

It would be appropriate to pay $6 for an ad like the rest of us who are
selling gear.

Good sound vs. bad sound may be a matter of opinion, Mrtennis, but accuracy certainly is not. Your April 10 post tells us what you like, and for most members of Audiogon your ideal system would be a nightmare.

While Robert of Ridge Street Audio was merely being enthusiastic about his product, you were posting an advertisement in a forum. That just isn't right.

youare right in one respect. i offered an item for sale which is not allowed. i got carried away and was wrong. for that i apologize. regarding robert, he tried to market his products and attempted to sell. i guess we are both wrong.

now to more important matters.

as you say, accuracy is accuracy. however, ther is no way to ascertain the accuracy of a stereo system. there would be dsagreement among serious listeners as to the presence and absence of coloration in a stereo system.

evaluations could not be corroborated by proof. you cannot prove that which is the result of experience. accuarcy is definitely a result of the experience of listening.

you and others may prefer an accurate sounding stereo system, however you arrive at such an evaluation. however an accurate sounding stereo system is neither better or worse than an inaccurate one.

what i may prefer, a very subtractively colored sounding stereo system, is obviously not a desirable state for most people, but, if you remember, the statement "one man's meat is another man's poison", taste is taste.

i will respect your enjoyment of anaccurate sounding stereo system and hopefully, you will respect my enjoyment of an inaccurate sounding one. it is not personal, nor should it be viewd that way. i presume people can be friends even if their tastes are polar opposites, which, it seems is the case here.

we are human beings first, and secondarily and less important, we have our hobbies. hopefully, we are not our hobbies, otherwise, i wave my magic wand and... poof your
stereo system disappears.

The definition of "demagnetization"... To reduce or remove magnetism or magnetic properties... sic go back to my original question

In a transformer what is the "non-magnetic copper" (no sh*# Sherlock) wound around? Turn off the electricity and what have you got...
Inductive heating... and this is relative to demagnetization in what way?
None of the allegories are germane to the subject.
Or is it being implied that this "demagnetizer" is subjecting the CD to an induction field? And after "demagnetization" occurs the physical properties of the CD have been altered?
A quick test... when injection molding polycarbonate the molecules align in a manner where stress is molded into the part. Look at an injection molded clear polycarbonate part through a polarizing filter. (polarized sunglasses in good light will sorta work) Where discoloration (rainbow of color) is seen that's molded in stress.
Will this demagnetizer "stress relieve" the CD?

The only thing this so called "demagnetizer" could do is remove static electricity.

Okay, Hbarrel, call it what you want, just don't dismiss the benefits if you have not tried them. You can take a bulk tape eraser to a cd which I have done. It is not as good as what the Furutech does, but no one in my experience fails to hear the difference.