I also have been using a Hammond bulk tape eraser, which was given to me by a friend who changed his studio to all digital before he passed away.
I have yet to find anyone who can't hear an improvemnt after a disc has been demagnetized.
I'll ask a friend to bring over a fave cd.
We'll listen to a single cut.
Then I demag the cd, pop it back in and we listen again.
Just like a parlour magic trick, my friends start asking what else I may have done to the settings on my system, like did I add more volume?
They hear the difference but can't wrap their heads around the fact that all I did was to zap both sides of the cd for 20 seconds each.
If you can find them,and they are working up to speed, the old pro bulk erasers work their magic everytime, on lp's and dvds.
I never play any discs that haven't been zapped, and I can tell when someone brings over a cd that sounds diffuse and jangly that this is a fine candidate for a demag.
I don't care about the how or why,only that it works.
Now about the "expense" of upgraded fuses, I think they keep you from spending a great deal more money on endless upgrades and swapping of components.
Fine tuning a system seems to be out of fashion in the new disposable age.
Don't like or have grown too acquainted with a component, then sell it and buy somethingelse,use stock fuses and then sell it,never knowing how good both pieces could really sound because both were compromised by that cheap stock fuse.
I think losing and spending thousands of dollars(as I have)looking for the next big audio junkie fix is an endless journey into frustration, and ultimately leads to burnout.
Then you sell off all the good stuff and settle for mediocre stuff, convincing yourself that it should only be about the music afterall.
The sad story is that if you always ran stock fuses, wires etc, and never really got into the Tweakiness" of this hobby, you've never heard how good that frustrating system really was.
The blame lies not with the system, the snake oil or the evil High End and all their minions.
The reason for someone's displeasure ,frustration with this hobby rests with them.
But then it's always the easy way out to blame someone or something for one's misfortunes.
For what it's worth, I've found that what you get out of this hobby is only as good as the effort you put into it.
I have yet to find anyone who can't hear an improvemnt after a disc has been demagnetized.
I'll ask a friend to bring over a fave cd.
We'll listen to a single cut.
Then I demag the cd, pop it back in and we listen again.
Just like a parlour magic trick, my friends start asking what else I may have done to the settings on my system, like did I add more volume?
They hear the difference but can't wrap their heads around the fact that all I did was to zap both sides of the cd for 20 seconds each.
If you can find them,and they are working up to speed, the old pro bulk erasers work their magic everytime, on lp's and dvds.
I never play any discs that haven't been zapped, and I can tell when someone brings over a cd that sounds diffuse and jangly that this is a fine candidate for a demag.
I don't care about the how or why,only that it works.
Now about the "expense" of upgraded fuses, I think they keep you from spending a great deal more money on endless upgrades and swapping of components.
Fine tuning a system seems to be out of fashion in the new disposable age.
Don't like or have grown too acquainted with a component, then sell it and buy somethingelse,use stock fuses and then sell it,never knowing how good both pieces could really sound because both were compromised by that cheap stock fuse.
I think losing and spending thousands of dollars(as I have)looking for the next big audio junkie fix is an endless journey into frustration, and ultimately leads to burnout.
Then you sell off all the good stuff and settle for mediocre stuff, convincing yourself that it should only be about the music afterall.
The sad story is that if you always ran stock fuses, wires etc, and never really got into the Tweakiness" of this hobby, you've never heard how good that frustrating system really was.
The blame lies not with the system, the snake oil or the evil High End and all their minions.
The reason for someone's displeasure ,frustration with this hobby rests with them.
But then it's always the easy way out to blame someone or something for one's misfortunes.
For what it's worth, I've found that what you get out of this hobby is only as good as the effort you put into it.