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Awaiting an Fo.Q order to arrive from Tokyo in response to Ric's kind suggestion for the ripper, I needed a distraction from writing and looked at a sealed Buffalo Thunderbird drive and an Oyen Digital MiniPro drive. Both were made in China where the deleterious effect of magnetism on music is even less well recognized by component manufacturers than here (if indeed that's possible).
Needless to say, I opened both up. Got hold of my Klein Tools 1001 Multi-Purpose Electrician Tool and a slew of 440 brass screws which I then cut down to size in a shopping bag where neither half could escape. Switched the brass for the magnetic in all but three cases that need flat-heads and closed the drives back up.
Been reacquainting myself ever since with favorite works at a markedly increased level of musical detail. Sometimes significant improvements in sound quality cost almost nothing and sit in plain sight.
Follow Ups:
I've been trying to find with no avail, brass screws for my SpaceDeck. I don't know the size off hand but they seem to be a custom made size?
Don't forget Ric Schultz' brass screw tweek on loudspeakers as well. Made a huge difference on my Spatial Audio OB speakers. Have fun!
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You are ill-informed, duke. SSDs (solid-state drives) are insensitive to magnetism but provide a less dynamic quality of sound to their magnetically-sensitive, rotating-drive cousins. That's one reason why there will likely long be third party vendors of external rotating drives now that laptop manufacturers like Apply have standardized on internal SSDs.
I was, as ever, being facetious in pointing out that hard-drive manufacturers probably do understand the effect of magnetism on their product because you can't make a hard drive without it.
To paraphrase F.E. Smith, a much-trolling duke is like an ill-tuned cymbol...
Edits: 07/30/20
Not trolling, just poking fun at your choice of words. I understand your viewpoint. I don't agree but there is no point me disagreeing. I found the notion of an HDD without magnetic materials amusing as it wouldn't store any data. A bit like a brick :)
a much-trolling duke is like an ill-tuned cymbol...
Which is not to be confused with a cymbal. Wymbourne wasn't trolling, he was joking.
Well, that's how I took it.
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