Why the objectivists will never win!

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I don't think it's an 'i hate Geoff Kait audio forum' but you make claims in a technical forum where most people are on technical side of things rather than flurry dust mystery side of things.

What did you expect as return?

And nobody stopped you to tell your things, as a mirror nothing stop other to give their experience about your/that claims.
 
LoL.

Let me seek my inked in purple, turned off smart phone wrapped in a 3d holographic foil in a demagnetised bag of crystals playing 7.27hz frequency i stored into my freezer.

Hmm said like that i'm not sure who the poser is. 🙂

But yes, now i read the sentence... it surprise me i agree.
 
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Did you read what's at the link? Part of the post at that link was quoted here in #1297.

Why? Because you were playing your game with quotes. You were trying to create a distraction with it.

Don't know if you can see it but you are only digging a deeper hole for yourself by the way you are bitterly going on. If you would just stop then we could get back to more civil conversation.
 
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. . . you make claims in a technical forum where most people are on technical side of things rather than flurry dust mystery side of things.

What did you expect as return?

And nobody stopped you to tell your things, as a mirror nothing stop other to give their experience about your/that claims.
[IMHO]

As usual for you, your comment appears to be written in an honest and balanced manner to me, but not everything happens exactly as you describe, or better as you would like it to happen.

Linking to other forums for the sole purpose of denigrating the image of a member of this forum it's just too much, and it's shameful.
There are even those who use the portrait of an Indian philosopher as their Avatar and then dishonor that same portrait behaving uncivilized and spending their time thinking about how to denigrate a member, searching on Google to see if that member has written elsewhere and then linking here to his posts written on other forums over ten years ago?
This dishonors the entire Forum and the image itself that they have unworthily chosen as an Avatar.

It should not be allowed to provoke and mock someone and then by pretending that he does nothing.
And if he responds to those who deliberately provoke and mock, then purists don't like him?
This kind of behavior should be prevented, even if they pay the annual fee, not closing an innocent thread.

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After having delved into the not-so-much mystery of Schumann frequency generators, I have started pondering something else.

What if a purple felt marker on the edge of a CD could do something to affect CD player sound? What might the physical mechanism be?

One thing technical folks sometimes like to point out is that CD data has error correction mechanisms which would prevent a colored felt pen from affecting the data. However, people often neglect the analog part of digital music reproduction. There has to be an analog voltage reference and an analog time reference. Looking at a Stack Exchange page: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/607809/how-do-dvd-players-know-how-fast-to-spin It says:

CDs and DVDs use a recording technique called Constant Linear Velocity, or CLV. The pit-and-land data on the disc have a channel coding rate for the raw signal. The read back system locks onto that signal, recovers data and clock from it, and uses that in a control loop to maintain servo lock, including focus, tracking and the disc spin rate.

Okay, so there is a motor speed servo which among other things recovers a clock signal. Well then, if the purple felt pin dye is absorptive of the laser light color of the servo sense system, then what effect might that have? My guess would be that there is some scattered light as the laser reaches the beginning and end of the pits that are used to sense speed. The scattered light might add a little noise to the optical detector. If much of the scatter is absorbed by the felt pen dye, then maybe analog time jitter is reduced some.
Reduced enough for a particularly attentive person to hear? Possibly. Can't say its impossible at this point is all.

BTW, the same sort of focus on digital data integrity, and lack of focus on the analog references and other sources of analog noise is an issue that has sometimes come up in discussions about audio dacs. IOW, its nothing new.
 
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Well then, if the purple felt pin dye is absorptive of the laser light color of the servo sense system, then what effect might that have? My guess would be that there is some scattered light as the laser reaches the beginning and end of the pits that are used to sense speed. The scattered light might add a little noise to the optical detector. If much of the scatter is absorbed by the felt pen dye, then maybe analog time jitter is reduced some.
Reduced enough for a particularly attentive person to hear? Possibly. Can't say its impossible at this point is all.

BTW, the same sort of focus on digital data integrity, and lack of focus on the analog references and other sources of analog noise is an issue that has sometimes come up in discussions about audio dacs. IOW, its nothing new.
How does the light get out the side of the CD and back to the optics? Also if it made a difference then a standard eye diagram should show it.
 
Also if it made a difference then a standard eye diagram should show it.
Bill, a standard eye diagram is about data errors, and the method is limited by the resolution of a scope (maybe 1% error or so?). A fancy digital scope might be able to measure timing jitter of the recovered clock though.

Regarding how light might get to the CD edge and back, I will only say that if a felt pen can have an audible effect, it would seem at least some light must find some path. Might have to talk to an expert on CD optical system design and development to get a better idea. That or take a jitter measurement with and without marker dye using a fancy digital scope. Don't know if it would even be practical to measure close-in phase noise very easily. Maybe it could be demodulated.
 
All well and good - but a bit moot, as I don't think anyone plays CDs any more? They just get ripped to lossless files, and that process can be guaranteed error free and even if the purple haze ( 🙂 ) on the edge had an effect it's gone by the time it's EAC ripped..
 
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