If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs

De-magnetising and removing static from CD's works, by either method, before inserting the CD into a transport, or by mats / discs used on top of the CD during replay. 

It is a very cost-effective means of "improving" sound, especially on CD's that have not been played for several weeks, or more.

I don't own a CD player, but have just checked the website and for the sake of accuracy it is 0.64mm thick. If I owned a CD player of any calibre I would have thought that at $34.99 it is well worth a punt. If it works great, if not then nevermind. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

“By reducing micro-vibration in the CD spin during playback, laser-reading error is potentially reduced.”

 

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of course they have zero measurements to back this ridiculous claim up

Re reading error, even crude 50c computer drives have read errors around only 1-2 bits per million.  You ain't going to hear them.  Read errors are not the issue with digital SQ.  Problems centre around jitter, clock errors, DAC clock integration with the disc player and the low bandwidth and sampling rate of the CD standard made unavoidable by the storage capacity of a 5 inch disc in 1984.

 

Even though the mat will not improve SQ, within 1mm or most probably more you don't need to worry about its thickness.  From the get go the laser readers in CD transports are self-adjusting to locate not only laterally on the line of pits but also vertically to obtain the correct height above the disc to maintain focus.

 

So this is $34.99 snake oil.  As snake oil goes, cheap at the price.

@clearthinker So this is $34.99 snake oil.  As snake oil goes, cheap at the price.

And for an experience so intense as to seem almost tangible, who wouldn't want to just have to try it?