On Apr 14, 1999, at 7:01 AM, Goran Finnberg wrote:

> Mike Richter:
>
>> You can also see reports that green (or red) marker on the edge
>> improves the sound, that silver (or gold) sounds better, and so on ad
>> infinitum. There are WWW pages devoted to urban legends. Please check
>> there before passing along the un measurable and inaudible claims.
>
> It is audible in my experience, black vs silver CDR disk.
>
> Even Plextor painted the disk tray black and could measure a lower
> jitter as reported by you yourselves some time ago from private
> communication on the advanced CDR list.
>
> As the DACs used are not immune to upstream changes to the incoming
> amount of jitter then any changes here may be audible to the end
> listener.
>
> Depending on the associated equipment the difference may go un noticed
> to clearly audible in my experience.
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Goran Finnberg
> The Mastering Room AB
> Goteborg
> Sweden
>
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