System tuning tips from Hi Fi Plus


The folks from Hi Fi Plus put on a system-tuning seminar at RMAF. Their recommendations included: (1) use cables from only one family in your system, (2) get a non-resonant, non-ferrous component rack, and (3) clean your cd's....They had equipment problems during the session of the seminar I attended, so I didn't get to judge the actual improvements gained by these tweaks, but I'm interested in just how important/helpful you all have found these suggestions to be...
77jovian
Cleaning CDs & then TReating them with Ultrabit Platinum has been a pleasant surprisingly effective process in my Spectral based system. (I have absolutely no interest in & do not know the folks at Ultrabit)
Psacanli- Did you find vocalists, instruments, etc. to sound much more focused after treating the CDs with Ultrabit(ie: more definition between kick and bass guitar or stand-up notes, etc.)? That seemed to be my biggest improvement. Further: I rent DVDs from a place called Family Video quite often during the week(no cable/satellite- hate commercials). For some reason, many people that rent there think it necessary to use prybars to remove the DVDs from their players(lots of scratches, gouges, scuffs on the optical side of the discs). I've two players(Toshiba/Sony) and often neither will play a whole disc without going mosaic, stalling and skipping to the next chapter of the movie. Without fail- After treatment with UBP, the discs play perfectly. To say the the product is VERY effective in aiding the LASER in it's ability to track more accurately, eliminating/minimizing read errors, and/or reducing stray/reflected LASER light is in my opinion an understatement. I bought the stuff two months ago(about) after reading a thread in here regarding it, and it has improved or repaired every disc to which I've applied it. I have no interest in the company either, outside of being a very pleased customer.
demagnatize a CD? Why? it's aluminum, for Pete's sake.
Aluminum is paramagnetic. And, while an induced current will also (by definition of electromagnetism) make a magnetic field, how does this effect anything?
The demagnetization of a CD is for the label, not the CD itself. Sometimes the ink used for the printing contains ferrous particles.