Tweak rediscovered

[bubslewis]

A friend sent me a Sound Improvement Disc for my cd player. There was an improvement when using the Disc but not a great one. Out of laziness I stopped using the disc when playing cd's. Recently with my upgraded int. amp and speakers I realized that now most of the electronic non musical sounds were from the cd player. I thought about the SID and decided to put it to use.

Let me say I am amazed. My cd player does not sound like the same player. All the electronic grunge is gone. The laser must be tracking better or the error correction system is working less. Imaging is more precise, vocals are pure and some cd's have greater depth. Smooth but detailed highs without any sense of fatigue while listening. The SID has improved the performance of the CD5001.

In the past when I tried the disc I think the int. amp and speakers were a limiting factor to the quality of the sound. Now that they have been improved I was able to hear the great improvement of the SID.

Would the Sound Improvement Disc work any better (or worse) on downloaded, computer burned, discs than it would on commercially recorded discs? Got a $25 I-Tune gift card for xmas from my daughter. I downloaded about 25 pieces, varying from Bach to Chuck Berry.

1st thing I noticed was I had to turn my normal volume setting a good bit down when I played my newly burned disc on my main system. Also there was that varying edginess (depending upon which track played) of distortion that was readily apparent thru my Maggie 1.6's.

I have a Dell desktop computer that's about 3-4 years old, but I'm not sure of the bit rate for its internal disc burner. Anyway, back to the original question. Any differences with the improvement disc for cd burns?

ps. they also advertised improvment with video quality of dvd's when using the improvement disc. Anybody test that claim yet? $39 plus shipping is pretty steep for a little piece of rubber. Still.... I'm tempted.

Bill