First off, I'm as skeptical as you but I really can't see it hurting me or anyone else, to take a chance on this product, if we can get our money back if we're not satisfied (other than the return shipping cost). According to Music Direct, who's salespeople I respect, a bunch of them own the product and they would not carry a product that didn't work, as it wouldn't sell and/or be constantly returned & damage the stores reputation. As Music Direct sells very high end stuff and they didn't push this or any other product on me (in fact I actually came to them about the product as they carry it for 50% less than other online stores), I consider them credible. Again, I should stress, if they didn't have a 30 day return policy, I never would have bought or taken a chance on this product. I just look at it like I have everything to win if somehow it miraculously does improve CD sound noticeably and have nothing other than a small return shipping charge to lose.

What I intend to do is play 2 different Beatles CD's that I'm not wild about the sound on, first without clarification, then with. I'll either notice an apparent difference or not as I have excellent ears and to be honest have no desire to shell out $200 for a product that won't produce significant improvement. Then just to double check myself, I'm going to make before I clarify anything, 2 CDR's of each disc, clarifying one & leaving the other in its original state, and play thenm back to back. While I agree psychologically I may be predisposed into noticing a difference, unless the difference was significant I wouldn't want to buy the product, so I don't think my bias will be much of a factor. As for another example, I bought and returned last week a Marantz 5400 CD player and an Onkyo 390 CD player as neither of them improved the sound quality of my CD sound as much as I would have liked them to. In any case I will report the results of my experiment on this board.





Quote Originally Posted by Feanor
In the case of the Clarifier, the statement is made, "With its patented Electro Magnetic Beam Configuration, the Clarifier polarizes the polymer in such a way as to maximize the laser's ability to retrieve stored data." How do you polarize a polymer? Maybe someone can explain, but from my limited knowledge, a polymer is a quite complex molecule that doesn't have a pole to align. OK, maybe the Clarifier does polarized the polymer: so how does that make the CD sound better?

These devices abound with such psuedo-scientific claims. In some cases no explanation at all is offer to explain why the device might work, just send us your money! My advice: DON'T.