by mykyll2727 » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:31 am
Mav_I have no experience with CD mats, but I came across a website several months ago that caused me to experiment. It's audiotweaks.com. I've heard about the green marker tweak for CDs but like many considered it voodoodust. They suggested that a black marker would work just as well. I remembered my "skepticism" with regard to resonance tuning. Skeptic is so kind. I was a true non-believer. Well as you know now I'm one of it's strongest advocates. Every piece in my system has received some sort of RT. I've proven it's effects to others. I don't claim to understand it fully, all I know is it works.
Well I as I thought about this I decided to give a CD tweak a try. All I did was their black marker tweak on a CD-R I'd made. I've never gone the full route. Well it worked. So I decided to try it on some CDs I have that I wouldn't be destroyed if something went wrong. Again it worked. This made me begin to realise how many CDs I have with black labels. I had always thought that it was purely cosmetics. Maybe it is, then again maybe not. I have no idea. Any way I became concerned that maybe I was deluding myself. So I decided to try it on a friend without telling him what I was doing. I won't waste time time explaining what I did to keep him in the dark but he noticed it too. I've tried the experiment on a total of seven other people and six noticed the difference. Check it out and let me know what you think. If it works for you, then maybe there is something behind the idea of a CD mat, whether or not a mat actually works. Just burn two CD-Rs, tweak one and not the other and see what you think.
PS my one of a kind Mav 3.1 is still working like a charm._Your friend, Mykl