Twice Chilled
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: freeze, audio, discs | Themes: Digital Entertainment
2. Twice Chilled
Intrigued? Well, so was I, especially after reading a similar but even longer posting here. One noteworthy part of this page states, “In our experience, freezing any more than twice does not create much more of an improvement, so we think it not worth the effort of freezing more than twice.” (The page also notes that the same process will improve cassette tape fidelity, which needs all the help it can get.) By the time you finish this page, you find yourself thinking, “Huh, maybe I’ve been missing something awesome all this time.”
Like a lot of people, I’ve largely switched to digital downloads for my new music, but I still maintain a collection of several hundred “must-have” CDs if only because I don’t trust the future of digital rights management or the ever-degrading level of sound quality accepted by the general public. But what if I could make these prized discs sound even better by freezing them? Man, move over bacon, now there’s something meatier!
To find out, I would need two copies of the same CD, so I ran down to the local used CD shop and grabbed something disposable but tolerable for testing purposes: Duran Duran’s “Decade.” One copy went in the freezer overnight. The next morning, I took it out, let the disc thaw to room temperature on the counter, then froze it again and thawed it at lunch.
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Pink Floyd was enhanced not by putting it in the freezer. It sounded better because of the ice cubes you took out to add to your alcoholic beverage.
Well i worked in a hospital as an anesthesia tech over the summer. Although the hospital did have a no cell phone policy, this was consistently ignored. In fact, there was a cell phone in each room for the anesthesiologists. I asked the head tech about this and he said that once upon a time, cell phones could cause interference in things like an EGK. However, they would never render a machine unusable. Furthermore, modern machines are shielded and are not significantly affected by a cell phone.
CDs are stored digitally. The data is encoded with redundancy that allows for error detection and correction.
Again if all the errors are correctable then the music stored on the disc is 100% identical to the original.
If you want to measure disc quality you can run a utility that will graph the number and types of errors found on the disc.
So Willy Winkle, Third Stage is among your oldest albums, but Boston's debut is not. Was it lost in the sands of time or did you actually own Third Stage and not Boston? If the latter, then, I really don't know what to say. :|
If you really think there's a difference, rip ta piece of both CDs to uncompressed .wav files, and compare the digital data...
A quick point... cellular phones were moderately dangerous to medical equipment and certain navigational computers on aircraft. When i say cellular phones, i mean the analog bricks we carried around in 1991 when the law was made. The phones we're using now are technically all digital PCS phones, not the analog cell phones those laws were written for.
Jitter. Also, your headphones are crap.
0 and 1, but timing: jitter. Also, your headphones are crap.
I remember trying to burn a backup of data on my Computer before sending it in for repairs. I was using CompUSA branded CD-Rs (really really cheap stuff). I saw pinpricks in the CD media before I even burned it. The reflective layer on the CDs was actually the backside of the label on the top surface, which was actually brittle and cracked with too much pressure (the reason they tell you to use a felt-tipped pen when writing on them). Oddly enough, the disks burned just fine and could be read back a few months later. I don't care about them anymore, but I still have them, and it would be interesting to see if they aren't just completely dead by now.
The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.
So Willy Winkle, Third Stage is among your oldest albums, but Boston's debut is not. Was it lost in the sands of time or did you actually own Third Stage and not Boston? If the latter, then, I really don't know what to say. :|
I went back for the prior two releases on CD later because I already had them on LP. ;-)
The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.
It pays to be taller than the other kids. Moreover, Prince was cool in the '80s. If I'd gone around listening to Air Supply and
Manhatten Transfer, yeah, it could've gotten ugly.
Back in 93 they had leaking gas fridges, that could add to the reason why pink floyd sounded so much better after sticking your head in there.
I am a pilot and cellphones on planes are not allowed to be used NOT because they interfere with instrucments (because they dont) they interfere with Cell network/carriers coverage range thats the ONLY reason!
hmmmm, so if i were to freeze a dvd would i get bluray quality? =P
You know, you gotta wonder where there stuff comes from. I mean, at some point, someone had to have come up with the idea, "Hey, I wonder if putting my CD in the freezer would make it sound better?"
You know, you gotta wonder where there stuff comes from. I mean, at some point, someone had to have come up with the idea, "Hey, I wonder if putting my CD in the freezer would make it sound better?"
I've thought that about many things. Look at escargot. How hungry did that first guy have to be, huh?
It pays to be taller than the other kids. Moreover, Prince was cool in the '80s. If I'd gone around listening to Air Supply and Manhatten Transfer, yeah, it could've gotten ugly.
ACDC, Metallica, Iron Madien, White Lion, Poison, those were cool, I do remember people listening to him. I just never could get over how much of a dousche he was. And I liked metal better.
They did the phone on the plane one on mythbusters. The solution they came up with is that it does have the potential to screw with things, but really that would only happen if wires/equipment were not shielded properly. Realistically this isn't an issue, but we are still taking the "better safe then sorry" route.
cell phones in a hospital are the same as on an airplane, "better safe than sorry" ... that being said, my wife is an ER nurse and she and her coworkers use their cells at work regularly, given they have any bars.
The part of the story I dont understand is how you made it through high school listening to Prince. I am suprised you didnt get beat up on a daily basis.
Prince rocks!