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RE: Ultrabit Platinum Plus vs. other treatments: brief impressions

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In Reply to: RE: Ultrabit Platinum Plus vs. other treatments: brief impressions posted by Quint on January 11, 2011 at 12:16:34

When you say you used only one CD for comparison, did you actually use only one disc or multiple copies of the disc?

Most CD treatments claim to remove the mold release compound from the CD surface. Many CD treatments also contain an anti-static chemical. So, the first CD treatment you use will presumably remove the MRC as well as make the CD static free. I.e., using only one disc you cannot go back to a baseline of an untreated CD for comparison - the next treatment you try will have the advantage of having a treated disc to work with, as it were. And so forth. If only one CD is used for the comparison I suspect whichever CD treatment one uses last might well finish first.

Add'l info: Clark Johnsen ran a test of 22 fluids and gels that was published on PFO a couple years ago.

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Clarification on methodology - Quint 11:07:10 01/12/11 (2)
I had two spare copies of the CD, both of which were in good condition. Both were demagged prior to treatment to make the playing field as level as possible. That�s as good as I could do. Hope this clarifies things.
- RE: Clarification on methodology - stvnharr 12:40:55 01/13/11 (1)
  Does that mean you had 2 discs or 3?
  You say you compared 4 fluid treatments. That means you had to clean at least one disc and apply something else. Hmmm.
  I like UBP. It made a disc play that would stop in the middle of a cut without the treatment.
  Don't use a full squirt, just a half squirt or less, else you won't get anywhere near the number of treated discs that GL says you will.
  - RE: Clarification on methodology - Quint 12:52:00 01/13/11 (0)
    One disc was treated with UBP-P, and that was the control disc. The other disc was the variable, and was treated with the other three solutions in order: Shine Ola first, Blue Maxx second, and L�Art du Son third. (All discs were demagged prior to treatment.) Clean Disc was used to clean off one treatment before the other treatment was applied. Perhaps not the best way to do things, but I don�t own a CD burner and didn�t have four identical copies of the Osborne CD. Clean Disc is the best solution that I know of for cleaning off previous treatments, so that�s why I used it.

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