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Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment?
This is a set of adhesive-backed thin plastic pieces that one attaches to one’s transport or player disc tray. The disk rests on them during non-spin mode, but presumably don’t touch the applied thin pieces during playback mode. The company says the new Dark Matter pieces reduces background scattered light from reaching the photodetector, thereby improving performance.
Anyone tried this product? Please specify transport or player if you have and your impressions.
Anyone tried this product? Please specify transport or player if you have and your impressions.
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Someone here (but I don’t want to mention any names) whose moniker starts with an f PM’ed me asking if NDM was a quantum type product. Gentle readers, that actually is an interesting question, while I admit it does appear somewhat trollish. My answer was, it all depends on how you look at it. Now, I’m not the type of guy who throws the word quantum around frivolously. I Design and Manufacture many products that work quantum mechanically, five or six such products currently at last count. But I digress. Inasmuch as NDM involves absorption of light, both visible and invisible, is probably best described as operating by classical physics. Plus, the CD laser itself is a quantum device, a Quantum well. But the lines between quantum physics and Newtonian physics are getting rather blurry. So, I wouldn’t get too hung up on whether NDM is one or the other. I prefer not to let the Cat 🐈 out of the bag (as it were) as to how NDM works. It’s all very hush hush. Einstein never really got on board the quantum mechanics train 🚂 God doesn’t roll dice 🎲 🎲 . But he won the Nobel Prize for his early 1905 paper explaining the Photoelectric Effect, including the idea of quantization of light, a precursor to quantum mechanics 🧰. Ironic, huh? In 1887, Heinrich Hertz[2][3] discovered that electrodes illuminated with ultraviolet light create electric sparks more easily. In 1900, while studying black-body radiation, the German physicist Max Planck suggested that the energy carried by electromagnetic waves could only be released in "packets" of energy. In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper advancing the hypothesis that light energy is carried in discrete quantized packets to explain experimental data from the photoelectric effect. This model contributed to the development of quantum mechanics. In 1914, Millikan’s experiment supported Einstein’s model of the photoelectric effect. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",[4] and Robert Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for "his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".[5] |
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