Fellow member, on a timely basis I wlll be posting few tips on improving your system performance without making a hole in your pocket. These are tried and tested by myself and everytime i tried one, pumped new life in my system. Many of them may know them and ignore (audiophiles,......phantom of all knowlege) and some will benefit of out of it.
Note: some of them woulld not have effect on the hometheate in box system or the plactic garbage made by some wellknown companies . The only thing you get out of them is Noise and not music.
Will start with a very Basic tweak...."Enhance the Media" well known as compact disc or dvd or any damn optical disc you have that you chuck it into your CD/DVD player.
GO to your local hardware store and stationary shop and but a Blue or Black permenant marker, not so rough sand paper and a soft paint brush.
Hold your media carefully and sand the inner and outer circle of CD (edge only) and dust off the fine dust from scrubbing with the brush you bought. Take a marker and paint the inside and outside edge with permenant marker, let it dry and paint once more.
CD's is a bulk production product and the edges are very smooth and reflective and never treated to cut the cost. A CD player is a dumb devise that picks up optical signal reflected from your CD's. When laser enters the plastic media, some gets reflected and some gets refracted and travells through the plastic layer itself. Inner and outter edge from purchased CD's acts as mirror and reflects back some infomation. The lense cannot differentiate between whats what, hence the unwanted reflections are processed as well giving you smeared image and coloration.
sanding and painting your CD's mitigates these reflections and you get much better seperation of instruments, soundstage with less coloration in sound.
Try this and i am sure you will be surprised. Stay tuned for more tweaks.
Note: some of them woulld not have effect on the hometheate in box system or the plactic garbage made by some wellknown companies . The only thing you get out of them is Noise and not music.
Will start with a very Basic tweak...."Enhance the Media" well known as compact disc or dvd or any damn optical disc you have that you chuck it into your CD/DVD player.
GO to your local hardware store and stationary shop and but a Blue or Black permenant marker, not so rough sand paper and a soft paint brush.
Hold your media carefully and sand the inner and outer circle of CD (edge only) and dust off the fine dust from scrubbing with the brush you bought. Take a marker and paint the inside and outside edge with permenant marker, let it dry and paint once more.
CD's is a bulk production product and the edges are very smooth and reflective and never treated to cut the cost. A CD player is a dumb devise that picks up optical signal reflected from your CD's. When laser enters the plastic media, some gets reflected and some gets refracted and travells through the plastic layer itself. Inner and outter edge from purchased CD's acts as mirror and reflects back some infomation. The lense cannot differentiate between whats what, hence the unwanted reflections are processed as well giving you smeared image and coloration.
sanding and painting your CD's mitigates these reflections and you get much better seperation of instruments, soundstage with less coloration in sound.
Try this and i am sure you will be surprised. Stay tuned for more tweaks.