Auricauricle
09-24-2008, 03:47 PM
I think I have finally crossed the divide and will be taken away soon; but before I go, I'd like you a li'l something....
With a handle like Auricauricle, it stands to reason that such a person like myself just can't leave well enough alone.
Over the years, I have read upon and played with various tweaks and gadgets looking for cheap and reasonably harmless ways to improve my set-up's sound and make a smug grin that I have acquired more reassuring. Through my reading, purusing and purchasing, I learned of a time-tested method of taking a marker and inscribing a large cross over the surface of the label side of a CD. Supposing that the light in the player was subject to all sorts of bouncing etc., the suggestion was made with the thought that the so benighted surface would arrest the errant rays and re-focus them upon the disc.
Yes, yes.... I have tried the green around the rim, readers: No tomatoes, there.
The thought of marking a perfectly good disc's surface was, and is, utterly repugnant. Like marking up a good book, so is the marking up of a perfectly good disc.
Bah!
I let the sleeping dog lie a li'l while as I pondered upon this notion....
But this monolith showed up in my backyard, last night....Spooky music played...
Today, I took a disc and with roll of electrical tape, applied four strips from the spindle hole out to the edge, trimmed the excess, and popped her in the player. No skips, no jumps, no crashes. It played perfectly well. (Insert Thus Spake Zarathustra, here).
The sound, you ask?
The sound?
Well, it sounds pretty darn good....
More to come after I get m'straighjacket fitted...."Come on boys: I'm ready!"
With a handle like Auricauricle, it stands to reason that such a person like myself just can't leave well enough alone.
Over the years, I have read upon and played with various tweaks and gadgets looking for cheap and reasonably harmless ways to improve my set-up's sound and make a smug grin that I have acquired more reassuring. Through my reading, purusing and purchasing, I learned of a time-tested method of taking a marker and inscribing a large cross over the surface of the label side of a CD. Supposing that the light in the player was subject to all sorts of bouncing etc., the suggestion was made with the thought that the so benighted surface would arrest the errant rays and re-focus them upon the disc.
Yes, yes.... I have tried the green around the rim, readers: No tomatoes, there.
The thought of marking a perfectly good disc's surface was, and is, utterly repugnant. Like marking up a good book, so is the marking up of a perfectly good disc.
Bah!
I let the sleeping dog lie a li'l while as I pondered upon this notion....
But this monolith showed up in my backyard, last night....Spooky music played...
Today, I took a disc and with roll of electrical tape, applied four strips from the spindle hole out to the edge, trimmed the excess, and popped her in the player. No skips, no jumps, no crashes. It played perfectly well. (Insert Thus Spake Zarathustra, here).
The sound, you ask?
The sound?
Well, it sounds pretty darn good....
More to come after I get m'straighjacket fitted...."Come on boys: I'm ready!"