Opposite effect with cardas/Ayre CD

Overhang, Sorry you are having such a bad experience with the Cardas Disc. I think you should call MD, they are pretty good. I purchased that Marigo CD mat a few years ago and it didn't work for my system. In fact, it made it sound like your description of the Cardas disc, except my system was okay as soon as I removed the Marigo disc. I called them and told them about my less than positive experience and they allowed me to return it for a full refund! Give them a call, I am sure they will oblige you.

I took a look at the writeup on this cd at the Music Direct site. I strongly suspect its main effects (perhaps its only effects) would have been on the flexibility of your speaker drivers. That will in time return to where it was, although it's hard to say how long it will take.

The other claimed effects of the cd, such as demagnetization of cables and components, strike me as marketing gibberish, which I wouldn't worry about.

Considering the low cost, though, you might want to just keep it, because it might prove helpful in breaking in new components in the future.

Regards,
-- Al

Had the sam,e experience with a De-mag disc.Hoped for the best,found the worst.Took about a month before I emjoyed listening again.
Never do that again;<

I have the PAD disc. I've found playing the demag portion to have a similar effect to cleaning cable terminations with Caig treatments, treble is brighter, crisper, this settles down after a day or two when things begin to sound better than previous to cleaning or demag. Not demaging or cleaning cables periodically tends to muffle, obscure, grunge up the sound over the long term, a very gradual thing you really don't notice until you clean and/or demag. You are hearing just the opposite with the Cardas disc, pretty bizarre.

Ill say ...ive never experienced this the arye cd.I use it once a week too.I have no idea why it would mess with your system so adversly.Track four is the best burn in for speakers ive found(gets surrounds movin).