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Observations on cd burners, vinyl, and car wax

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Posted by PJN on January 10, 2003 at 06:04:40

I have been converting my collection on vinyl to CD's using a a new sound card on my PC and have been pleased with the results. Earlier on when I had just added a cd burner to my pc I had done some experimenting treating burned cd's with Rain dance car wax. Apparently the car wax must lower the refractive index of the surface of the cd enough to make an audible improvement. The other day I tried treating the surface of the CD's before I burned copies of WAV files from an album I had converted to digital. This is what I did. Burned a untreated copy, burned a pretreated copy, and treated a copy after it was burned. Then I compared all of them to each other. The pretreated copy was easily the best, it was much clearer and had much better detail than the others, and the treated copy was a big improvement over the untreated copy. The original vinyl was better than the untreated copy, but it's a tough call between the pretreated copy and the vinyl, some might even say that the CD sounds cleaner. I don't understand why they're so close since one is a copy with less information in it, but thats how it sounds to me. I don't want to start any flame wars over this, just thought I'd let you know what I observed. Try it out yourselves and let us know your observations.

PJN

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