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In Reply to: RE: Mods, this person obviously is a friend of the devil. Banish him! Nt posted by geoffkait on April 24, 2015 at 10:10:17
I did some research a while back (cannot remember where, though, so don't ask) and heard that ions applied in the blow-dryer fashion seem to strip away pretty fast, versus a continuous flow.
How long does the ionizing effect last, in your experience?
Did you do A-B comparisons, say, with the ionized disc at the very end of a long, 70 minute+ disc (say, a Mahler symphony), maybe letting it play straight through up to the start of the very final movement, and then listen to the first 3 minutes or so of that movement and then swap in the non-ionized dupe copy of the Mahler disc, and then skip to that same movement to see exactly how long the treatment lasts? That approach should work well to see if the treatment really is still effective. You could do that with various discs to see exactly, time-wise, where the effect starts to wane.
I can see it immediately benefitting a disc, no doubts there. But over a half hour later in the environment of a spinning motorized CD player? Well, I have my reservations on effectiveness over prolonged play times. I hope it would last, as I would like to employ such technology, but don't want to waste my time on longer playing discs if the effect is (like the car theft movie from the 70's) "Gone in Sixty Seconds", so to speak.
Of course, even if short, one could always just re-do after each movement, I guess, but what a PITA!
Oh, and how long do you shoot the disc with the ionized air for before playing? Both sides the same amount of time?
TIA for any and all info, Geoff.
Cheers,
WS
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Depends on the environment. The effects obviously wouldn't persist as long in an environment where there was the potential for relatively high static charge.
... that you haven't tried what I suggested. Which is cool, no problem. But it's all speculative unless somebody actually A-Bs the effect and determines approximately how long it lasts for their set up. Again, I don't buy it lasting too long in a CD player's internal environment, given the dramatic effects reported in many posts where somebody has tried grounding anti-static foam strategically placed around their CD transport and power supply. I know when I used the foam and grounded it, the results were quite evident and beneficial. Maybe that would be a fine combo: anti-static foam with a tourmaline treated CD.
I'll have to think about getting a ion generating blow dryer and giving it a shot. But who wants to stand there and blow-dry their CDs for five minutes before each play? I mean, hot blow jobs are great.... to receive (but NOT to give!) ;-)
I suspect you're over thinking this whole thing. The tourmaline gun has many uses not just CDs, silly. And it only takes about a minute to treat an object, not 5 minutes. The more objects you treat the better the sound. You know, things like interconnects, speaker cables, drapes, carpet, even glass and wood can develop positive static charge over time. Capish? It takes maybe 5 minute to treat the whole room. As I said it depends on the environment how long it takes for the positive static charge to build back up on the objects you treat with the ion gun. Where I live the humidity is moderate to high so the effects of the Particle Accelerator are relatively long lasting.
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