New Product......Intelligent Box

and I forgot to mention-all his products* have a 30 day money back guarantee. Not much to lose is there?

ET

* except the TT which cannot be "returned"

I do not believe the clever little clocks did anything too until I tried them!! I even made them better by putting memory foil(A Peter Belt product) on the battery inside the clock http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PWB

nice apples and oranges comparison there.

ET

Electroid, not sure if the card can be returned, cause technically, you could use all 100 cd upgrades on the card and then say you don't want it. When you get them back no one knows whats left on it.

I have the chips with 30 cd upgrades on it and I actually mark it down on a post it each time I use one. That way I have an idea when it runs out or is getting close.

Usually, I just mark the post it and cd that I did it with out the a/b check. The other night I zapped the Doors new remastered 40th anniversary cd and did the a/b comparison. It was a nice improvement. Jims voice was a little more pin point with better detail and clarity. I am hearing morrisons voice on the new anniversary cd with several cd tweaks like I have never heard before.

I'd be willing to believe this gadget does in fact improve sound if someone can explain to me in detail how it works both in principle and practice.

Then the next question would be if it was worth it or not. I doubt zapped CDs will bring more on the open market necessarily.

The only explanation I could come up with for how a CDs sound can be improved via zapping is if this gadget or any other for that matter makes the digital encoding stand out optically with more contrast to the optical laser on the pickup so that perhaps fewer bits get lost during reading.

Also I would ask whether the improvement is constant across different CD laser pickup devices and/or across different digital CD encoding systems and-or media (for example, media used in manufacturing commercial CDs versus say recordable media available for home use, which uses a different system to encode the disk.

An acid test would be to record the number of bits read/lost for both treated and untreated CDs on average, with some kind of digital device designed to measure such things.

Which raises an interesting question. IS there a CD player out there that actually measures and displays such things as the actual # of bits read versus the max possible for the medium? I would like to see a feature like this. It would enable me to audibly correlate what I was hearing with the actual digital bitstream being picked up and processed. I would expect scratched or worn CDs or CDs with manufacturing defects to read lower in general than the optimal possible.