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Do you demag or destat your CDs/DVDS?

Just curious about these CD tweaks. The Furutech destat machine is tempting at around $350--I like their products. What is the story behind Furutech's discontinuation of their RD2 disc demagnetizing station? I see it was taken up by Acoustic Revive as the RD3, a supposedly improved version. Did it not prove effective by Furutech's standards, or did they let it go in favor of their much more expensive demagnetizer for vinyl and CD? Just wondering if the RD3 does work to improve sound. There isn't much mention of it in the past few years.
jafreeman
jea48
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Hi Al,

If you get a chance would you copy a good sounding Red Book CD, like the ones you used in the thread below, onto a hard drive and compare the original source Red Book CD to the hard drive copy? I would bet the original source CD will sound better.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1354371062&openflup&15&4#15

Thanks,
Jim
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almarg
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Brownsfan, thank you kindly. And I'll add for the benefit of others that if any differences were there to be perceived with the particular device you tried, in your particular high quality system, I have no doubt that you would have perceived them. IMHO your sonic perceptiveness is as good as it gets.

Jim, can't do, as I'm not equipped for computer-based playback to my main system, or to anything other than inexpensive computer speakers. Despite being among the more technically oriented audiophiles, somehow I always seem to be among the last to adopt new technologies :-) I didn't buy my first CD player, for example, until 8 years after the medium was introduced!

In any event, comparing CD playback to playback of a computer file introduces so many variables into the mix that I'm not sure the results of a comparison in a specific system would mean very much. That would likely apply even if the CD were being played back in a CD drive in the same computer that contains the hard drive, due to the differing signal paths within the computer resulting in differing amounts of noise and jitter on whatever output signal it is providing. To a greater or lesser degree, of course, depending on the type and quality of the interface being used between the computer and the component to which it is sending the signal.

Best regards,
-- Al
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geoffkait
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Take any tweak, like demagnetization, for example, or ionization, and there will always be two camps, those that think it works and those that don't. For those that listen to any tweak, like demagnetization or ionization, again there will always be two camps, those that hear it and those that don't. There are many reasons why people don't hear tweaks. I don't think we need to go into all if them here, but an obvious one is the person's hearing ability is not all that it's cracked up to be.
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