Do you demag or destat your CDs/DVDS?

My thanks to Jea48 for supplying ample information on the Furutech RD. I notice there are no US or Canadian distributors of the Acoustic Revive RD 3, only overseas sales on Ebay that are not endorsed by Acoustic Revive. I could buy one from the dealer in England, but price is now over $600 USD. I spoke at length with my high-end retailer, here in MN, who swears by the Bedini Quad Clarifier. He states he never uploads a disc to his solid state drive or plays a CD that is not first placed in his Bedini. I trust this guy, who works with the top lines in his store every day and has listened to dozens of different systems he has set up for customers to listen to. If this guy sez it works, that's enough evidence for me--I ordered one.

07-12-14: Jafreeman
I spoke at length with my high-end retailer, here in MN, who swears by the Bedini Quad Clarifier. He states he never uploads a disc to his solid state drive or plays a CD that is not first placed in his Bedini. I trust this guy....

A point to consider, regarding the mention of ripping to an SSD (or other hard drive): If in fact demagnetizing a CD accomplishes anything, and if the explanation of how that might occur is as described in the long quote from IAR which Jim (Jea48) provided on 7-9-11, the resulting benefit would only occur during real-time playback in a CD player or transport. The effect described in that explanation has no applicability to playback of a computer file that has been ripped from a CD. And that is especially true if the rip is performed using software that assures bit perfect accuracy, as it should be.

The IAR explanation, btw, involving introduction of electrical noise into circuitry in the CD player or transport, is the most plausible explanation I can think of for how these things MIGHT make a difference. And if that explanation is correct, whether or not a benefit will be realized, and its degree, figures to be highly dependent on the happenstance of the design of the particular player or transport.

Regards,
-- Al

Jafreeman,

Thanks for the acknowledgement. I was hoping you had not made up your mind from reading the posts of all the naysayers that had responded to your posted message.

My Bedini Clarifier is the older dual beam unit. I have heard the quad is a better one.

Not sure if you researched any of the archives here on a Agon on the subject at hand. Here a a thread I posted back in 2005 incase you have not already read it.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1110747999&openmine&zzJea48
Jim

Correction to my previous post: "7-9-11" should have been "7-9-14," of course.

Regards,
-- Al

07-12-14: Jafreeman
I spoke at length with my high-end retailer, here in MN, who swears by the Bedini Quad Clarifier. He states he never uploads a disc to his solid state drive or plays a CD that is not first placed in his Bedini. I trust this guy....
07-12-14: Jafreeman

A point to consider, regarding the mention of ripping to an SSD (or other hard drive): If in fact demagnetizing a CD accomplishes anything, and if the explanation of how that might occur is as described in the long quote from IAR which Jim (Jea48) provided on 7-9-11, the resulting benefit would only occur during real-time playback in a CD player or transport. The effect described in that explanation has no applicability to playback of a computer file that has been ripped from a CD. And that is especially true if the rip is performed using software that assures bit perfect accuracy, as it should be.

The IAR explanation, btw, involving introduction of electrical noise into circuitry in the CD player or transport, is the most plausible explanation I can think of for how these things MIGHT make a difference. And if that explanation is correct, whether or not a benefit will be realized, and its degree, figures to be highly dependent on the happenstance of the design of the particular player or transport.

Regards,
-- Al
07-12-14: Almarg

Hi Al,

You said,
"A point to consider, regarding the mention of ripping to an SSD (or other hard drive): If in fact demagnetizing a CD accomplishes anything, and if the explanation of how that might occur is as described in the long quote from IAR which Jim (Jea48) provided on 7-9-11, the resulting benefit would only occur during real-time playback in a CD player or transport."

You may be correct about an SSD or hard drive I have not experimented there.....

I have as you know, in a thread a while back here on Agon where you responded to a post of mine, where I copied a Red Book CD on a stand alone CD recorder to a CD-R disc and then treated the same Red Book CD in the Bedini Clarifier and then copied the cleaned CD on another CD-R disc in the same recorder. Play back of the two reviled the two CD-R discs sounded different. Sounded different on several different CD players. Several.....

Do you remember the thread? Damn if I can find the thread.... Any ideas? I would like to post the thread here for the naysayers.

You said,
"The IAR explanation, btw, involving introduction of electrical noise into circuitry in the CD player or transport, is the most plausible explanation I can think of for how these things MIGHT make a difference. And if that explanation is correct, whether or not a benefit will be realized, and its degree, figures to be highly dependent on the happenstance of the design of the particular player or transport."

I have played treated Red book CDs back on several different CDP players. I think it has more to do with the listening devices used whether difference can be heard. I will say to date for those that have listened they could hear a difference between a treated CD and non-treated CD. Note I only said difference. Some listeners preferred the sound of the treated CD, other preferred the sound of the untreated CD.

Jim