Roger Thorpe wrote:

I especially liked the "Nespa #1 CD & DVD finaliser" which "offers a
way to 'finalise' the manufacturing process of CDs and DVDs by
shining a very high intensity light at an inserted disc.

My first thought... if this is so effective why don't CD pressing plants
do it? As well as cleaning the "mould release agent" off the disc...
after all they do clean the discs once they've been stamped and lacquered.

Of course, as long as the 1s and 0s get from the CD to the DAC without
corruption then these treatments won't make a blind bit of difference...
had to laugh at the SuperSocket that RA sells. It's had its contacts
sprayed with some fancy polish. That's it. If it had RFI filtering then
it might make a difference... but polished contacts? Errm...

The biggest problem with the likes of Russ Andrews is that it breeds
cynicism. You get something unexpected that makes a difference (eg
speaker cables - note that I don't want to get into a cable sound
argument here, I'm just using that example to illustrate this point) and
having been fed a steady diet of snake oil by the likes of Russ A all
the regulars in here respond with "it's all in your mind".

The sad thing is the likes of Russ Andrews (and whoever it was a while
back that was selling the "Clever Little Clock", a digital clock that
would supposedly make your system sound better by being in the same room
as it) causes so much cynicism that many people think that all hi-fi is
therefore about selling snake oil!

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