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The cheapest CD tweek ever or how storage environment modifies the sound of your CDs

Maybe you remember the story of the chief editor of a German audio magazine who claims to be able to tell you what type of floor you have in your listening room, by mere listening to one of your CDs?

Well, I made three copies of one of my CDs onto CD-R, kept one and gave the other to office collegues, so that each CD was stored in a room with a floor different from the two others. I then sent the CDs to that editor.

Some time later he mailed his reply: he described the sonic footprint of each CD, and what he wrote was comparable to what one would would expect when comparing loudspeakers or phono cartridges:

CD 1 velvet, dark sibilance, capped highs, dry, little reverberance
CD 2 hollow, fresh highs, cloudy, misty, reverberant
CD 3 bubbly bass, vague, clumsy, spongy, coarse dynamics

He could not identify the floor types correctly.


Now the question arises : what in a listening room could have an effect on a CD such that its sound is modified that drastically? The audio community is supposed to believe that light can modify a CD’s structural properties, what else do they want us to believe?

Remember, the Intelligent Chip cannot work and yet it does (for some people). If the storage environment modifies the sound of a CD as this editor claims, you could simply switch from dry to fresh by storing the CD in a different room for some time. It can’t be cheaper than that. In any case avoid wooden floor covered with carpet (CD no. 3) !!!!!!!


Klaus

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Topic - The cheapest CD tweek ever or how storage environment modifies the sound of your CDs - KlausR. 00:30:18 03/12/06 (143)
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