Can you bend / Stability in a CD
treitz3
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Strange question. Maybe not. When you take a CD, SACD, DVD I]We'll just call it a [B]CD[/B] from here forth[/I, whatever...and take it out of the jewel case, bend the CD when you are removing it.....does it damage the layer in which the laser reads it, over time or not?
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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Nope. I'm sure some rocket scientist will eventually enter and state the opposite but I'll probably be 100% uninterested at that point. It's a funny thought but there are bigger things to worry about in audio.CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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Look at it from my point of view. I recently took back up vinyl. Many factors. Screw the RS's. Important? yes/sound. Over time, just like any other media.....important, yes. Read sig.~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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I doubt it. I have heard many myths about damaging and degrading CD, but I have never seen any of them come true.
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I just bent one my CD's over, poked her in the hole and had a Dark Sumatra afterwards. Later I cleaned her up, threw her in the player and heard her screaming, "give it to me, give it to me" all over again. My conclusion, no damage was done.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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I just bent one my CD's over, poked her in the hole and had a Dark Sumatra afterwards. Later I cleaned her up, threw her in the player and heard her screaming, "give it to me, give it to me" all over again. My conclusion, no damage was done.
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Nice!
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I gotta assume tolerances are built in for bending.Living Room 2 Channel -
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My roommate in college once completely cracked a CD from the edge to the center hole taking it out of the case... just for laughs we threw it in the player and it played!!! No skipping, no jitter, nothing. We were dumbfounded, but it was a very clean break and perfect perpendicular to the edge of the disc- worked for about two weeks, but eventually we screwed it up by pulling the crack open to show people how bad it was and the foil layer around the crack flaked off.Gallo Ref 3.1 : Bryston 4b SST : Musical fidelity CD Pre : VPI HW-19
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I gotta assume tolerances are built in for bending.
hmmmmm..............after F1's experience it would certainly appear so.
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CD's should always be stored and used in an anti-gravity enviroment.
madmaxVinyl, the final frontier...
Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want...
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...sitting in a buds Chevy pick-up I spyed a horribly sun warped jewel case on the dash. I pick it up and say "ya KNOW extreme heat will ruin these" with a big
This thing looked mangled in the jewel case and I just had to see the disc inside. Well as I try to open the case, we hear this 'Twing' sound and the disc springs out of the jewel case bounces off the headliner onto the dash again.
I pick it up... look it over and it looks fine.We both get the 'wonder if it will play' idea at the same time.Checked for warpage against another good disc 1st before playing it. It played fine. -
You can always put The Clamp on it Tom!:D:D:D:p
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The silvering on a CD is flexible, but it can crack or peel off the disc if bent enough.
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Ok, I'm getting the sense that this was not the best of questions. Sorry to have bugged you all, I was just wondering. Questions like this from me are a result of many, many a beer and almost breaking a CD trying to get the damn thing out.
I was just pondering that if I bent the CD that much, stretched the foil layer, that the laser would have to correct more reading errors. Maybe I should stop thinking about **** like this when I'm on the beer.~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
That would be a logical assumption, but I've never read anything conclusive on it.
As long as you're drinking, wanna buy some speakers the size of washing machines?
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Workin' on it as I type brother!
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Micro-brew? Treitz drinks icehouse. Good ole all american boy that don't need no stinking fancy pants beer. Next thing Ya know is somebody is gonna tell him to replace his zip cord IC's with one of those high dollar cables we all know aren't any better than plain ole wire.:D
