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TAS Recommended CD Tweak….


In The August issue of The Absolute Sound, RH gives a glowing review of a product from Digital Systems & Solutions – “UltraBit Platinum Optical Impedance Matching Disc Treatment System.” According to RH, he was floored and, “….This wasn’t a subtle difference; there was a wholesale increase in apparent resolution, space, clarity, soundstage dimensions, and vividness.”
Apparently, this is a liquid solution that is applied to CDs and DVDs ($65/bottle).

Regardless of the whole “advertising thing,” I don’t believe someone like RH would put his reputation on the line by giving a bogus review. I wonder what, “This wasn’t a subtle difference…” means to the average person’s ears?

Also, in the same article, RH makes the statement, “…Similarly, it’s incontrovertible that a CD-R burned from a CD sounds better than the original CD.” I did not know this. Have any of you come to the same conclusion?
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newbee
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Eldartford, Whether it's 'all that clear' or not is often in direct relationship to the products a poster is trying to sell. Obviously since Goeffkait is trying to market a devise which will remove the effect of stray light, it would be clear to him. How else could it be. Free, indirect, marketing sure is a wonderful thing! :-)
eldartford
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Newbee...Wana buy an algorithm? :-)
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phillyb
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I just tried this liquid on several discs that I know by heart and the improvements were easy to hear and to be honest it will take some getting used to.

CD sound relaxed as in natural, detailed, open, and full body from the top to bottom with improved dynamics.

This improvement is cheap and I would rate it as high as changing your preamp or cables.

Vocals improve, top hats and snare drums improve, mass horns, you name it improve. Now will it make Motown sound like an audiophile recording, no they still sound like crap, and that is a good thing, shows this stuff is not coloring the sound at all.

Things come into focus, Harry James (Still Harry After All These Years). There was a Jaw dropping improvement, I mean everything had it space, the piano went from sounding good for a recording to sounding like the real thing. His Trumpet had more bite and detail and presence, yet more relaxed, by the way the drums and high hats really came into there own in the mix, as well as the sax sections.

Billie Holiday Body and Soul on MO-FI came to live Billie sounds much better more detail bring more swing to her phasing.

Louis and Ella mono recording had a new openess, and the deep in the mix back ground stood out like never before, yet still deep in the mix.

For Duke CD and Fatha (2 lp on one cd) now out of print sounded like I remember my LP's sounding.

I could go on. Bottom line is this stuff is cheap and for what it does is really something positive. Reminds me of hearing the Lessloss powercords, you wonder how something so affordable can bring such a improvement to ones system.

I will be order several more bottles for future use. I have not tried it on DVD's yet but I will and see if it improves video also, I would guess the audio should improve if nothing else.

Give this stuff a try, you won't be sorry. I will end this way before CD's sounded detailed, clean, great pitch, with this stuff the soul returns, you won't understand until you hear it.

Digital may have been much better then we all thought, even a LP's lover said to me, this changes everything, I am enjoying my CD's as much as my LP's now.

He alwayd thought each medium had it's good and bad points, but he perferd his LP's due to the master tape being fresh when the LP's were pressed and then buying a cd with 30 year old tape being used as it's source, now he having second thoughts on his thinking.
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