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  1. #11
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    Very interesting, thanks

  2. #12
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    yes i use a marigo all the time with my bel canto cd2 top loader . nice little tweak
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    In my old JVC CD Player (circa 1993) I used to put on the music CD a disc cut out from an old "5.25 support from an old floppy disc and heard some differences, but never tried on my current Classè Audio CDP1...
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    Currently using a Marigo Ultima Signature.....probably the best, but pricey , although I also have one by Wezhi Precision that also works great
    Two very different sounds.
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  5. #15
    Join Date: Aug 2009

    Location: Staffordshire, England

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    I'd like to give one of these a go purely out of interest as I can't see any valid technical reason why they would change the sound in the slightest.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

  6. #16
    Join Date: Feb 2013

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    Me too, but always balked to price tbh... one day perhaps
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  7. #17
    Join Date: May 2010

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    I have this. Got to say that IME doesn't make diddly squat difference. All these type of mats are gimmicks. Spend your pennies on more music.

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  8. #18
    Join Date: Aug 2009

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    It's that some people use them and say they work and some have used them and say they don't. They really shouldn't work, the explanation that they improve the sound by reducing the need for error correction is akin to saying that racing stripes make your car go faster. That doesn't mean there can't be an explanation beyond the purely psychological, just damned if I can think of one. Would like to try just to see if I personally experienced the positive benefit, and go from there. Not prepared to fork out any money though.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

  9. #19
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    Only thought i had was stability. The extra weight etc stopping disc from moving up n down as much. Might just be snake juice though

    My Densen disc works for me imo so you never knw
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  10. #20
    Join Date: Aug 2009

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    I'm Martin.

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    Even then it will either read or not. That is the thing with CD there is no grey area. It isn't possible to get it to read the disc 'not as well as it should' without very obvious effects like skipping or drop outs.

    If there is a genuine effect it must be in the analogue domain, damping vibration that is somehow getting into the analogue circuity and introducing noise. It is a bit of a stretch, though. But I don't agree with dismissing any inexplicable effect as placebo without a full investigation, starting with listening for myself.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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