Anyone use CD tweaks
The CD mat from Herbie's Audio Lab works great but sometimes gets stuck in the drawer mechanism, which is why i stopped using it. That, and it looses its ability to stay stuck after several uses and needs to be cleaned as a result. I believe its no longer available and has been replaced with a permanent stick on. It really cleaned up the sound. |
Yea. Give Herbie's Black Hole CD mat a try. It is meant be adhered to a disc permanently. It stabilizes the rapidly spinning disk in the drawer and damps the inherent resonance within the disc as it is being played. The music is more coherent across the frequency spectrum. I bought two 200 mat lots of these little beauties. Highly recommended! |
The color of marker that's most effective depends on the color of the CD label artwork. For example, Mercury Living Presence CDs (labels are Black and White) prefer Red marker on the outer edge and black on the inner edge. Most CDs prefer Green or Purple (Violet) on the outer edge and Black on the inner edge. |
I'm only digital, and only CD's, so I thought maybe it was time to treat the discs since I had pretty much tweaked everything else in my rig. I can tell you, flat out, that the Mikrosmooth / Optrix spray combo from Mapleshade is crazy good -- better air, clarity, staging, freq extension, everything. It was like a good cable upgrade. IOW, significant. And I am definitely a pessimist when it comes to this kind of stuff. I even considered contributing a testimonial to Mapleshade, but I suppose I just did... 30 day MBG. Easily worth the $40 + shipping IMO. mikro/optrix |
