Astonishing CD tweak? Zanash do try this!

OK, it's completely normal to rub hand cream on your CDs. It's not even slightly strange behaviour, and it's unlikely to make anyone think you're odd or obsessional.

Is that better?

My opinion is that audiophilia is an unhealthy disease, and that tweakers have got serious perspective problems, I don't see why I shouldn't express that opinion. If someone's standard behaviour prior to playing a CD is to demagnetise it, lathe it, and rub hand cream on it, I honestly think they should be seeking help to break from their obsession, they are exhibiting neurotic behaviour.

-- Ian

 

Now take a deep breath, stick two pencils up your nose and utter the word "wibble".

Ian, have you tried this?

 

So you are her only to remind everybody of this, wrong forum... :bub:

 

Get a grip Antonio, Ian is making perfectly valid comments.

 

Right forum and right message.

You and your ilk are hastening the death of the specialist audio industry with this nonsense - an industry with is already dying on it's arse.

I understand that pissing into one's speaker ports is quite an effective tweak. Something about damping...... go on give it a whirl.

 

Yeah, but shitting into the ports is better. something about dumping. Quite hard to aim though.

 

You dont get it, this is an hifi forum, not a kids playground, our toys are not the same, we are past ninja turtles long ago... :zzzz:

 

Wow that first line is the most sensibly thing i have read from you. Monday night i am listening to some new speakers, so hopefuly i can tweak my room.

 

An enormous round of applause for that man! This is the most eminently sensible thing on tweaks and tweakerdom that I've ever read.

With repect to those who hear differences in such things, they should ask themselves serious questions, such as, why should a cream on the non-playing side of a CD have any effect? Correct, it shouldn't. And if you heard it make a difference, the only possible answer is that you heard that because you wanted to hear a difference or were prepared to hear a difference. Now if that pleases you, I'm happy for you to cover your CDs in hand cream, but it's pointless to try to elevate it into a general physical law.

No, I haven't tried it, and I don't intend to. There are some things that are so basically wrong that there is no need to test before dismissing them completely.

 

So it appears no one has actually tried it ?

bloody typical ...slag someone off without first trying the idea ...

In My Opinion ...just a typical numb skull naysayer responce....

Well I've tried it .... but I've only pm larkrise with the sonic results..

And no cdp is still working ....
my hands feel softer [or so Mrs Z says]

interestingly the disc I used tried to escape but fortunately it was not lethally edged and "landed butter side up"

Has any one tried other opaque creams ie vasaline ?

 

Bloody sanity eh

Gets in the way every bleeding time.

 

ZeroGain RIP

Will the last one out please switch off the server.

 

Yup.




Time was when even Average Joe aspired to a 'decent system'. He may not have been a hi-fi nut but he could still appreciate the benefits of good sound quality. His system was his third most expensive purchase, after the house and the car.

30 years on and Average Joe has been persuaded that hi-fi is the exclusive preserve of potty romantics easily parted from their money by latter-day Barnums. He probably rates audiophiles about as highly as he does those who bought shares in the African Space Project from a wide-suited man in dark glasses.



Never has an industry and its consumers been so implicated in its accelerated demise.



LS

 

Never read such a load of crap before, you deserve a prize... :chunder:

 

Give us a break.... if you've not bothered to try it you can't possibly pass comment on it's worth. So at best, all you can do is speculate, guess, pontificate, scoff, or worse.

For those that do want to try ....don't use too much ! try a small amount and spread it evenly onto the none playing surface ...

Remember its easily removable....... using a paper towel to remove the excess. Then rinse using warm water with a drop of mild detergent,sponge off the remainding grease. Follow this by another paper towel and air dry. You can do most of this without even getting the playing side wet if your careful.

For gawd sake its sodding hand cream ...not some multi thousand pound cable ....

 

Now my memory isn't good enough to remember the location of the article, but i recall a german company who somehow managed to generate an CDsurface image based on the locations on the disc where the errror coorrection circuits kicked in or were required to do some sort of corrrection, whatever, the exact details escape me.

But loand behold if the map didn't look like a dog rough copy of the CD label, which was Led zep something or other if memory serves me right.


now either it was total bullshit, but it was published, , or there is actualy some potential effect to what is on the flip side of the cd.

not that i believe hand cream is the answer.

 

I read that somewhere too.

Handcream on your CDs, sounds like a surefire way of getting you CDP full of gunk to me.

As to whether certiably nutty tweakery is the cause of the downfall of the HiFi industry, I seriously doubt it. Peoples priorities changing as to what are their major purchases, the way they listen to music (and the rise TV and internet) ... oh and crap initimidating dealers, all play a bigger part than the wilder fringes and their perverted use of handcream.

 

Edited in the interests of peace and harmony

 

Only on the label eh? Thank goodness for that. I wonder where he stores his creamed up LPs?

 

Good grief, not LPs surely? There really are some bizarre people out there. I’ve no great problem with audiophools wrecking their CDs but vinyl is another matter entirely. That's just plain silly. As a dealer I’d certainly not buy in any LPs with greasy smeared labels, plus the slime would no doubt transfer to the inner and therefore the surface ensuring said idiot has to wet vac the LP before each play.

Tony.