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#1 Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:56 pm
by pre65
I thought I'd asked this question before,maybe ?

Has anyone tried cleaning CDs in an ultrasonic cleaner, and if so was there any noticeable effect ?

#2 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:56 pm
by Dave the bass
Yes, I have, I had access to an Ultrasonic bath at a previous place of employ. I had a CD that i bought in a charity to shop that was 'sticky' with jam or summat so I put it in the Sonic bath and the sticky jam came off and the CD played.

Win-Win!

#3 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:08 pm
by pre65
Thanks Dave. :)

What flavour was the jam ? :lol:

#4 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:27 pm
by Dave the bass
Loganberry.

Quite rare.

#5 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:13 pm
by andrew Ivimey
Ooooo I have access to an ultrasonic cleaner that could do cds. Otoh a good breath and a wipe from my hanky seems to do the job.

#6 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:24 pm
by Dave the bass
What colour hanky do you use Andrew?

#7 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:00 pm
by andrew Ivimey
A grubby well used hanky

#8 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:49 am
by Dave the bass
Ta, I'll order one.

#9 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:03 pm
by Daniel Quinn
Dave the bass wrote: Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:56 pm Yes, I have, I had access to an Ultrasonic bath at a previous place of employ. I had a CD that i bought in a charity to shop that was 'sticky' with jam or summat so I put it in the Sonic bath and the sticky jam came off and the CD played.

Win-Win!
Not quite , I suspect the same would have been achieved with a clean cloth , isopropyl alcohol and some elbow grease .

#10 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:24 pm
by Nick
Quiet probably, but why do that when you have a bath ready to do the work for you.

Note, he never said that his method was any better than any other, just that it was a method.

#11 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:56 pm
by Dave the bass
Just to clear things up, the only reason I cleaned the CD in the Sonicbath was because I'd been working on it, repairing it actually. We used to have a HiFi system at work at the last Workshop, hence playing CD's at work and the availability of a Sonicbath at the same time.

It's not something I do at home.

Mainly because none of my CD's have Loganberry Jam residue on them.

#12 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:05 pm
by pre65
Dave the bass wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:56 pm
Mainly because none of my CD's have Loganberry Jam residue on them.
:)

Perhaps I can rephrase the question.

Has anyone noticed a change in sound quality when a cleaned CD is replayed ?

#13 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:09 pm
by andrew Ivimey
In that a clean CD no longer hops,skips and jumps it could be said to sound better.

How about the claim that has been made that a CD copy of a commercial CD sounds better. This has been remarked upon in the past...

#14 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:50 pm
by Daniel Quinn
the o/p asked for noticeable effect . I was trying to clarify if any one was prepared to say "ultrasonic cleaning" is superior to elbow grease in respect of reproduced sound heard

this stems from my hypothesis that much of efficacy around record cleaning machines over manual cleaning is hype and speculative .

Mr Brooks new record cleaning solution partner got rather annoyed with me for suggesting this ,he did however offer no cogent argument , evidence or fact .

ps- to avoid misunderstanding I am perfectly prepared to accept the superior convenience and ease of use of r/m

#15 Re: Ultrasonic clean CDs

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:04 pm
by Nick
What you need to realise DQ is that 95% of Dave (le Bass)'s posts are to be taken tongue in cheek, and the other 6% are mistakes.