Easy, Free Tweak for CD/SACD player

You may be 1 in a million people who are not influenced by the power of suggestion or preconceived notions. As for the others on this thread, I would suggest they try it and maybe learn a little about themselves.

What do you mean by quick switching? Do you think that they need to lower the weight onto the cd player very slowly with a motorized pulley system?

 

I'm hardly one in a million. There's plenty of members here who are confident in their abilities and I personally know plenty of audio geeks who are too. Frankly, I have a hard time understanding why some in this hobby would be influenced by seeing what they are listening to. After all, physical beauty is only skin deep.

Quick switching as in listen to something for say 30 seconds, then switch around whatever and listen to it that way for another 30 seconds, wash, rinse, repeat. One needs to get a good listen to absorb what they are hearing, maybe even jot down a few notes to compare with later.

 

Where are you getting this from? I don't think this is true for the vast majority of people, and it doesn't seem to make much sense. There's either a difference or not. Right? Everybody in this thread who has stated that they heard a difference one way or another did so by doing what you call quick switching. If they heard a difference doing this quick switching with advanced knowledge of whether the weight was on or off, they should be able to repeat that determination blindly. That's just how things work.

 

Experience, that's where I'm getting from. Mine and a lot of others with it too.

No, sometimes there is no difference.

I'm not seeing that everyone posting in this thread used quick switching.

Apparently, that's how you work and think everyone else should. I vehemently disagree.

 

Well if you don't want to place anything on top of your cd player (or dac) put something under it ! Not as a platform but really supporting as much of the bottom plate as you can on it. So you will need something a bit higher than the feet of your device, so that the feet are off the shelf/cabinet and the bottom plate is resting on whatever you want to put under it.
As I allready said, I used stacked slabs of cork/rubber under my dac.

 

Discovered granite place mats for weights a couple of years back, just after I discovered supports for kit to sit on

My lovely TAD D-1000 currently has, on top
Granite place mat on
Electric Beach (1" laminated wood blocks) on
Black Ravioli Mk 3s
It sits on
Black Ravioli Mk 3s on
Electric Beach (1" laminated big wood block) on
Black Ravioli Mk3s on
Creaktiv rack

Isolation or what
Who says you can have too much of a good thing ?

 

The damping of the digital stream is a very good idea. No more shiny bits or drowned in bass noise. the 0 and 1 values are heard now clear and sound. The true audiophile sound quality.

But... What's this? A simple audio rip made with a $20 CD player. No books on top. Books are made for reading not for damping the motor vibrations.

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Can you please outline your procedure for determining if a weight placed on top of a cd player makes a difference? Please be specific with times and whatnot.

 

Yeah & make sure to have the results certified by an impartial governing body too.

 

Would you like to buy a vowel?

 

Why wouldn't you want to try to help folks out? I don't get it. Is there a reference that you can direct me to?

 

Your attempts at trolling are not fooling anyone.

 

We all think YOU are the one trolling. 'A blind test is inappropriate. My way of testing is much better, but I'm not going to tell you what it is.' Kinda defines trolling.

 

I thought it might be a good idea to stack several copies of the Book of Mormon on top of my turntable’s platter while spinning. I’m happy to report the results were absolutely mixed!!

 

Your reading comprehension needs a lot of work.

 

Besides being a friend of Steve Guttenberg, who's Miguel and why should I be listening to him ?

 

THIS is the procedure? Good listen = ?. Jotting a few notes helps?