Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler CD sound quality video.

Oh, I didn't mean that toward you. It's just a silly myth which I don't really feel like analyzing any closer.

That guy is probably trying to improve the SQ of his CDs that gets scratched from getting placed directly on surfaces ... like the table in the video.

It's ok. I knew that.

Hey man, you don't really know unless you tried it. If it's not true, why do people sell green pens? Hunh? Hunh?

Well, believe it or not I tried it. I left one side of the disc edge alone and used the green on the other half, just to see if I could hear a difference between the first part of the song and the last. I'm pretty sure the green half of the track sounded better, but I may have been influenced by all the hype. Gotta do a DBT to be sure. Will reprot back later with the results!

I bet red ink would work much better.

But they made no mention of red ink in the video, so better stick to the tried and true.

Actually, (probably from sheer boredom), I've been going through each of my CD's at home and trying to find the ones with the best sound quality. About the only thing I've discovered, (which probably is nothing new to most/all of you) is that the older the recording the worse the quality. I've only gone through about 1/4th of my collection so far, listening to about 30 secs of the beginning of each song.

Here's a list of some of the best sounding CD's in my collection, so far:
La Sandunga by Lila Downs 2004
Border by Lila Downs 2002
She Wolf by Shakira 2009
Live at Mile High Music Festival by Dave Matthews Band 2008
From this moment On by Diana Krall 2009
The Fall by Nora Jones 2009
The Essential Neil Diamond (disk 2 only) 2001

I usually find that the older a recording is, the better it sounds...at least through the 70s. The sixties was a mixed bag, likely because of the variable of which mixed bag was smoked.

Your talking about CDs made recently of older recordings?

So far, when I've purchased one of these, the quality is really bad. But I've just been purchasing rock from the late 60s and early 70s so far.

Edit: The quality also seems to be dependent on who the artist was. I have about 8 CD's by Ana Gabriel, older and newer, and all of them have poor sound quality.

Too bad CD's don't come with a quality rating.