CD Sound??

Read an interesting whitepaper on the Genesis Speaker web site re. blank Black CD's (address below). The Memorex brand of same, can be easily found on the www...

http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/whitepaper/Black_CDsII.pdf

That Genesis article is clear proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I tremble to think about what his first draft said, before people started trying to straighten him out (not that they got very far).

The most revealing sentence in the article was when he said that "many brands of media...did not play in my transport." That would suggest to me that his transport is defective, although I suspect it's more likely that he probably just screwed up the burn, and then blamed it on the disk. Trust him at your peril.

I read a review on 6 moons that said that the black CDRs sounded best. I ordered a spindle to try out from CDW.com. They were Memorex, and I do think they sound better than the average TDK or Fuji cheap CDRs, but they aren't as good as Mitsui Gold in my opinion. I have had a few skips and glitches when using the black CDRs, where I don't have any problems with others that I've used.

Does "our" Vader wear black too?
I usually listen with my eyes closed, so EVERYTHING is black as far as I'm concerned. So no stimulus cross-contamination issues, resulting in higher s/n ratio in my brain, I suppose. You really think that's true for Redbook lasers too?

Your theory has some support, for sure. Check out:

http://www.tweakaudio.com/Cd%20tweaks.html

Tom