Well i took out the diskette from a floppy disck 5.25 case just to use the diskette sleeve as a cd case - which is very retro cool, btw - and then i looked at the diskette and i wonder why not using it for vibration dampening in my cdp...?!
What i have done was cutting the floppy disk with the same diameter of a cd disk, then glued it in the cdp drawer – with a soft glue - and with a scissor or a sharp knife cut it exactly like the drawer – because of the laser pickup, of course – and that’s it: A cdp mate.

Could it be the ferro-magnetic of the diskette or maybe because it acts similar to a turntable mate giving more stability to the disk and eliminating a few inside ressonances...the improvements are far from subtle.
I'm listen to a very "complex" music and i find it more focused, defined, detailed than before, and because of that the overall sound has a little more dynamics and attack.

do you have a picture? I am having a hard time picturing what you did.

elroy

I don't have a camera with me. Maybe tomorrow. I have done the same with my cd rom and i have good results. Damping any audio source is always a good thing. A year ago i've done some damping with a kind of bitumen adding mass to another cd rom case with great results, and this year i also made some damping in some of the caps in my MF X-A1 integrated amp.

I'm betting that this is the reason, Alvaro. I personally do not think that the magnetic flux of a diskette is enough to do anything audible, but the flexible plastic of the diskette could very easily absorb some of the vibrations of the spinning CD within the CD player's transport.

I'm with Elroy, though; a photo showing exactly what you did would be a big help. Am I correct in thinking that you cut it to fit your CD player tray, cut out a slot for the laser, and glued it to the tray?

Correct! That's exactly what i did.

Here's - a not very good - pic from my dvd rom:



Note: Please do not try this if you use Dual Discs, which are thicker than normal CDs, and are likely to get damaged or cause damage in some players/CD/DVD ROMs ,or refuse to play because of the extra thickness.

Now, that's some Thinking Sound....

Not to 'sound trite'

Butt, Thats Cool!

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