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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. 
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All this thread is interesting... I cannot try the NDM,because I dont use now a cd player... I had transfer all my cd in flac files et listen only to flac files...I keep the noise of the computer to reasonable level and the results are at my satisfaction... But all that is because on the many tweaks I implemented... I know now that tweaks are more important if you had vintage gear or medium hi fi gear than buying some other piece of mid-fi gear...Installing the room is more important and tweaks to the final results...It is my experience...

Then I am interested by non orthodox tweaks...Very interesting OP and thread...
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mahgister All this thread is interesting... I cannot try the NDM,because I dont use now a cd player... I had transfer all my cd in flac files et listen only to flac files...I keep the noise of the computer to reasonable level and the results are at my satisfaction... But all that is because on the many tweaks I implemented...

>>>>One can’t help wondering, wouldn’t you have gotten better results if you had used NDM in your player when you transferred all your CDs to flac files? You would now be listening to music with better signal to noise ratio, no?
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Red-IR and violet-UV absorptive dyes are interesting, too. And these dyes have been around like forever. My last product was a dye. There are many ways to skin a cat. The whole point is to skin it. Otherwise, it’s just a lot of talk.

There’s no substitute for signal to noise ratio. - old audiophile axiom
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I speculate one reason why a lot folks gave up on CD and moved to streaming or whatever is that they couldn’t get it right and gave up in frustration, that is if they even tried. Or they like the convenience or whatever of streaming or serving or whatever. I understand that. Untreated CDs played on untreated CD players generally sound thin, bland, compressed, metallic, wiry, irritating, remote, plastic, synthetic, two-dimensional, gloopy, generic, thumpy, hard, sour, rolled off, screechy and like paper mache. I’m not trying to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in a few hearts.
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