Ableton co-founder Robert Henke thinks we should bring back CDs

Anyone else tried shaving CDs? It’s amazing. Music becomes cleaner, clearer and better focussed, with greater separation of instruments and a greater sense of space around them. Highly recommended!

2 Likes

Damn you just stole a few minutes of my life.

Do you think the sound of the OT can be improved by shaving the outputs?
Or even make the DT sound less HiFi ?

:slightly_smiling_face:

1 Like

I also demagnetize my CDs. It makes the gritty 16 Bit crunch of a CD sound even more fat and punchy.

3 Likes

… but if I really want to go all out, I use this tool:

I wouldn’t buy new vinyl or CDs. Plastic is killing our world. Old vinyl that was recorded and pressed before digital is truly analogue and that’s why it sounds so good. Analogue everything. Modern vinyl is all digital up until the point of pressing. Not worth it for our and kids’ future. Just download and forget physical. Music isn’t physical anyway… all just sound waves.

1 Like

Sound waves are physical. (Music is probably psychical too, assuming that was a misspelling.)

Well yeah but only in the same way that WiFi is physical.