Adding weights to CD/preamp

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Mike, thanks for saying what you really think - nothing I will criticise in approach to that post. I know it is hardly something that I could write a paper about - but the only way of doing a blind test would be to get someone else to keep adding and removing them. There's no-one else in the house who would want that responsibility, or to whom I would entrust it. What I mean with that is that my education and background mean that my capacity for self delusion is pretty well-controlled (although I am sure someone who was self-deluding might hold that self-delusion too!)

Nothing has fallen out of my mind, other than what I last went upstairs for.

I accept that what I describe seems an unusual step - I guess I'd hoped for a response further removed from 'that doesn't seem right to me, so it must be rubbish' than I've had overall. But thinking about it, this is how it has always been. I am or have been a member of lots of forums - cars, RS, meteorites, hell there's even one for remote controls. In my experience, none are as prickly (at least in some quarters) as those that deal with hifi, and none have as many users who are so dismissive of things of which they have no first hand experience. It's a pity, as it rather takes the fun out of it.
 
Actually, I'll add a caveat to that last paragraph - I am a member of a specific forum relating to my car, and whilst it's not really the sort of place you dip into for a chat, it's a mine of information about technical matters. Unless you refer to the seats (which Clarkson described as ones you wouldn't get thrown out of in a hurry) as 'wingbacks' as I saw one or two others do. If you did that, all bets were off and the sheer bile thrown out by a few long-time lurkers was genuinely startling/saddening.
 
I would be extremely impressed if, without knowing, you could reliably say whether the weight was installed or not. In other words Simon, I'm saying that you were expecting to hear a difference, so you did.

Interestingly enough I was listening yesterday and thought things didn't sound quite as good as I thought they would, and wondered if there's an ennui that can come when you've made a few improvements but then stop. I took the lid off the CD and some of the suspended weights had come loose. I've reattached and will have another listen later when glue's set.

I realise that none of this proves a thing, but it is interesting.

To those who think this is all cobblers and have already told me so, please don't feel the need to tell me again. I was listening the first time around!
 
i believe most if not all high end kit takes minimising vibrations, be it external via isolation feet or internal via damping, seriously.

check out the designs of mbl, nagra or specifically msb where the internal components of their dac products are located in there own chambers within the case work.

ultimately if this tweak cost less than an upgrade to your cd player would have and your happy with the results thats all that matters !
 
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Interestingly enough I was listening yesterday and thought things didn't sound quite as good as I thought they would, and wondered if there's an ennui that can come when you've made a few improvements but then stop. I took the lid off the CD and some of the suspended weights had come loose. I've reattached and will have another listen later when glue's set.

Again? I hope you used better glue this time?

I've been using a few specific tracks when I make changes and there was a point where I thought that things were sounding a little less good. When I took the lid off, the weights had detached. That was when I was relying on self-adhesive qualities, and why ones that are suspended need gluing.
 

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