Does anyone have experience with AudioXsell's CDRs (http://www.audioxsell.com/community/blog/0/Latest-Items.htm#249659)? If so, can you please opine in this thread. In advance, thanks for your assistance.
I note these CDRs are pricey - $100 for 100 is the least expensive purchasing option on the web site. Or, one can do the $10 for 3 option. :-k Thus, I'm interested in reading what others felt they got for their respective $$.
Cool djdnh! 8)
More info:
http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/whitepaper/Black_CDsII.pdf
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/cdr/cdr.html
Lots of sources of black bottom media:
http://www.emediadepot.com/Prodisc_Black_Color_CD_R_p/46105499.htm
http://www.e3works.com/product.php?productid=16137&cat=251&page=1
http://www.memorex.com/html/products_detail.php?section=1&SID=1&PID=25&FID=3&opento=2
(I have had bad experiences with Memorex products, YMMV)
Other forum discussions:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=941327
http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=46373.0;wap2
Great subject. Thanks. I'm going to Circuit city to buy some.
rollo
Quote from: richidoo on December 08, 2007, 05:33:01 AM
Cool djdnh! 8)
More info:
http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/whitepaper/Black_CDsII.pdf
A bit off topic here: I note the first link is to a paper by Gary Leonard Koh of Genesis loudspeaker fame. Well, he's also the importer of the IsoTek System Enhancer CD (http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/isotek/cd.html). The gentleman seems willing to be open to various audio improvements, tweaks, etc.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program. richidoo, thanks for all the links! :clap:
I'm wondering if there is something supposedly superior to the AudioXsell product, or if its pricing is for some other, unknown reason disproportionate to the other companies' respective black CDR media.
I was wondering that too. Only one way to find out! ;)
I tried a CD demagnetizer and CD ionizer at the RMAF show, both Acoustic Revive products (http://www.acoustic-revive.com/english/rd3/rd3_01.html). They used them on my CD-R which is not metallic like a real CD, but the difference was very noticeable, and I judged the products to be worth the price. I wondered how such CD treatments (liquids, markers, disk vibe dampers, footers, demag, ionize, black bottom, etc.) might compare to ripping the CD with a tenacious PC program like EAC or Easy CD-DA and streaming from hard drive. I thought that most of these CD treatments act to improve the laser's ability to pick up data. But reading Robert Harley's TAS treatise on CD players last year, you would think they are nearly foolproof in extracting data. So then I think the tweeks help reduce jitter? But that doesn't really make sense either. It remains yet another audio mystery to me.