the SHM CD Experience

'i will assure you that my meitner cdsa-se is fully capable of extracting every nuance of information from any cd'

that's why SHM is useless, you will hear 0% more music (bits)

..i'm sorry you system is not good enough to allow you to hear what IS there..you truely would enjoy the added musicality...maybe some day you will have a system good enough to hear the difference..we here at audiogon and the other forums that you frequent sure hope you do anyway..good luck

Calloway, if you want better sounding recordings, SHM-CD won't do it for you as your cd player is 'fully capable of extracting every nuance of information from any cd' whether 16bits are pressed on normal plastic or super clear plastic your player will read them correctly, thus SHM-CD won't bring any improvement at all, maybe some users with cheapest $99 DVD players will benefit from super clear plastic, other than that sham-cd is useless, if you want better sounding recordings you have to look somewhere else...good luck

There is something to clearer/cleaner plastic, IMO.

I asked a friend who was very happy with the results of Shine-Ola to burn me a couple of CDs, and to treat one of each pair with Shine-Ola and not treat the other. He labelled them only "A" and "B", and he did not tell me which was treated and which was not. In both cases, I easily identified the treated CD, which sounded superior...larger image, clearer details, etc.

I can't explain how it works, but the effects were superior, evident and repeatable.

So, I can easily imagine that a super-clear polycarbonate CD layer could yield positive results.

I'm just not willing to pay for it.

I bought In Through The Out Door by Zep.

I couldn't distinguish a difference from the last remaster but the two TTOD tracks on Mothership were noticeably better.