What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism


I just stumbled across an old thread discussing this process, and the sonic advantages. It's intriguing, and I wonder what other members think. I am primarily into vinyl, and don't listen to cd's that often, but if I can improve the audio quality, then I am interested, to say the least.

I am concerned though, about painting the tray of my McIntosh, for fear of damage, and also de-valuing it's re-sale value


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Showing 2 responses by tomcy6

Don't bother with it.  It's an old tweak that died out years ago.  My apologies in advance to anyone still doing it.
No matter what the wavelength of the laser used in cd players, wouldn’t any scattered light picked up by the photodiodes be miniscule compared to the direct reflection that the photodiodes read and wouldn’t any halfway well designed cd player be able to ignore the miniscule amounts of scattered light and only send on to the DAC 1s and 0s read from directly reflected light?