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Most of you have heard about reburning your CDs to black CDs and it is an improvement. But for a significantly much larger improvement(no - I'm not exaggerating) you should look into the CDRs being developed by George Bischoff Audio Engineering. I have heard numerous CDs downloaded to disk and then recut to his CDR and the improvement is overtly noticable in seconds. Transients are faster, focus is improved, decay is cleaner, space between sounds is quiter, bass is more defined, treble is smoother and I could go on and I repeat I am not exaggerating. I heard it done on commercial pop, crap recordins, acoustic folk, large scale movie music. classical both voice and insturmental and on both acoustically good material and losuy stuff. I listened on great speakers like Pipedreams and Merlins and some very ordinary speakers. And I imideately heard the improvement and so did every other listener who participated which included speaker designers such as Merlins and Vanderstein and just ordinary audiophiles. This is intiguing and worth looking into. Contact is: phone 877 272 1567, fax 908 314 0042
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This information has already been posted. The process manipulates the data and seems to boost the treble. On most systems, this gives the illusion of improved resolution.
Hi. I have read your post and am quite interested in finding out. You mention "reburning your CDs to black CDs". As I have never heard about this I shall appreciate information on what is it and how to do it.
Just get some black CDRs at a computer store and burn copies of your CDs on a computer by downloading to a file and then burning the CDR.
Not all black CDR's are made the same. A CD can be any color you like, colored dye is injected into the protective polycarbonate layer the laser passes through. Some belive that a black dyed polycarbonate layer somehow absorbs scattered laser light and reduces jitter, or otherwise does something to make CD's sound better. Others belive that at a 780nm wavelength, the laser of a CD player burns right through the polycarbonate layer, unaffected.What does make a big difference is the type of dye used on the recording surface. There are many different types, and it's impossible to tell by looking at the disc what type of recording dye is being used. The good stuff is made by either Mitsui or Taiyo Yuden of Japan. Ritek also makes decent discs, but Mitusi and Taiyo are considered the best. Most other discs are made by Prodisc and CMC, and aren't signifigantly different from each other.
The only way to tell who made a disc is to pop it in a CD burner, and use a utility like Nero CD Info, which can decode the manufactuer's ID from the blank CDR.
Mitsui and Taiyo Yuden discs are hard to find in stores. Some Fuji discs are made by Taiyo, Mitsui are almost never found in retail establishments (they're expensive.) The easiest place to find both is online.
I have been trying to find the black Mitsui and Taiyo Yuden but all I have been able to find are gold and silver CDR from both manufacturers. Any suggestions on an internet supplier?
Mobile Fidelity makes black poly layer CDR's, OEM'd by Mitsui. They are EXPENSIVE for CDR's, even Mitsui's, especailly just for a bit of ink injected into the CDR layer.If you shop around you can get decent prices on bulk Mitusi's. I bought a pack of 100 Taiyo Yuden's from Newegg for $50, which isn't bad.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
The CDR is a product of a friend. I have no financial or business involvement at all in it. He was working on it over a year and I knew nothing about it until the Stereophile Show when he demoed it. I have been in audio for over 4 decades(I even wrote for Stereophile years ago which may be a negative, I know) and have always approached tweaks with mountains of doubt. I was impressed with this CDR almost the instant I heard it. Bobby of Merlin heard it. He is on the Asylum, You can ask his opinion.
My purpose was only to speed up the investigation of this CDR by others(yes, I hope my friend makes some money but who gets rich in audio). It's a very new product so I gave a phone and fax number so you can contact him. He is very straight and will talk without any 'magic' statements. Then you guys can decide whether to pursue things for yourselves. Lots of us have spent bucks on 'magic' chips and dots. This is certainly worth as much investigation.
I know my description of the affects sounded like hype. But that is what I heard every time. And so did everyone else.Should I understate what I believe? Hopefully some of you will do some of your own investigation.
I was intregued by the GMA First Overture digital preamp, and it's innovative use of capacitors as cable risers. I was excited to try CDR's from such an engineering legend.They were delivered by a mysterious looking black van, I never saw the delivery man, they just seemed to appear at my doorstep, and the van left my circular driveway as I opened the door. There were cryptic symbols all over the plain cardboard box they came in, like some ancient, unknown sanscrit, with the standard postmark stamped over a group of symbols that looked like Egyptian heiroglyphics. Interesting...
I made a CD image using EAC of my Chesky demo CD, no errors, bit-perfect copy. I dropped in a CDR (Plextor Plexwriter Premium drive) My computer started making a funny sound, and the screen started flickering. It sounded like atonal pipe organ music coming out of my Midiland computer speakers. Fine, silvery dust started shooting out of the drive as it spun faster and faster, louder than I've ever heard it spin. The same scanscrit started scrolling down my screen, wiping out the Nero Burning ROM dialog box with a jumble of horrible, incomprehensible lettering. An inhuman voice started chanting through my headphones, smoke came out of my monitor, the keyboard was hot to the touch, and with a horrible, crashing, grinding sound, the CD ejected, complete.
I popped it in my CD player, and noticed a slight unveiling of the higher registers, but the overall sound was more compressed, with a hint of distortion in the midrange. Also, all the birds in my yard seem to have died, a horrible, hemorraging death, and my car now gets lousy gas mileage.
Has anyone else had these results? The clearer highs sure are nice, but the added distortion in the midrange, burned-out computer and dead wildlife are drawbacks.
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I got the dead bird problem too. I thought it was the the cat next door!
We don't care whether it works or not. This is not an advertising venue.
But it's not my product - I have no interest financially in it at all. I just was impressed.
Then please register your moniker so we can get to know you.
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Yes, it was meant to be, but what if it's the truth(which it is), then you've missed something really good because of your skepticism and refusal to investigate further. Not one person who heard the demos was unable to perceie the difference very quickly.
. . If your product is good then word of mouth will spread. by posting it like this, you've lost all credibility.and i don't feel the slightest bit bad for you. we all have to obey the rules.
It's not my product
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