Mr Lanctot accidentally on the email list Wrote: > > > I ripped a lot of beat up CDs over the weekend and I > bought a "CD repair" kit for the problematic ones. > > I was amazed at how well it worked. It didn't seem to > do anything visible but I went from 2-3 unrecoverable > errors to a bit-perfect rip confirmed with > AccurateRip! And on more than one CD too. > > However if I was doing this to more than a half-dozen > I'd definitely go for the little machine Radio Shack > has to do this ($30 CDN). I went for the cheap manual > kit for $7 CDN. It's a buffing compound and it's far > too labour-intensive if you had to repair dozens of > CDs. > > You have to really work it in very hard and even one > makes your fingers and wrist pretty sore. >
I almost posted for advice on this before. It's a whole interesting topic in and of itself. So it's good to know that the clean cd's RIP more accurately, which makes complete common sense. However if I copy my CD's to Black CD-R and paint the edges with marker, and add a disc stabilizer, and hit it with a static gun, and bevel the edges with a $500 bevel cutting machine- will it RIP _better_? I think not. Thus- snakeoil. Perhaps they make it sound better by avoiding c2 corrections? I've also read that people think some cd's can sound more 'jittery' than others. That's just what I read :) Surely there's a theory in the making there somewhere? Last edited by Skunk : Today at 20:33. -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20385 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
