Robert Morein wrote:

What is your opinion of the tweak suggested by Sam Tellig, which involves
spraying a CD with Armorall Protectant? Do you feel it increases the clarity
of the reproduction?

I thought you didn't want to be associated with these so-called "silly
tweaks" Robert? Didn't you tell me you couldn't even talk about the
ideologies associated with them, it's such a "hot potato" topic? So WHY
all of a sudden would you ask a stupid question like that, Robert?
That's rhetorical btw. I already know why, and I'm disappointed that
you would do this. Even after all these years of battling McCarty, you
didn't learn anything, because you really don't make a very smart scam
artist. I don't know that you ever will, but I will try to help you for
the next time that you try to "get me", by giving you a tip: don't go
too far. Reign it in.

I'll answer your stupid question anyway, even though it was insincere,
your motivations were malicious, and your desire was to hold me up to
ridicule by "showing" how "dangerous" my suggestions are, and make the
point that none should be pursued, all should be dismissed. If you want
to be that ignorant, _be_ that ignorant. But in my book, note that
being purposefully malicious without direct provocation against you is
worse than being ignorant. First off, I don't read Tellig, probably
because I rarely ever read Stereophile, and I never tried his tweak.
But I do know, as you know, that the product eats through the
polycarbonate layer after some time, gets to the substrate and destroys
the readability of the disc. (I believe this was where I was supposed
to say "sure its a great tweak!", and you were supposed to hold me up
to ridicule and say "See folks! He was trying to steer all of us idjits
wrong all this here time! We would'a all had busted seedies if we'd a
listened to 'im! Cletus! Go fetch the stake! Lurlene... get some
matches! I think we got us a tweako freako effegy ta burn!").

Gosh, and you almost had me convinced that you were one of the very
rare "smart ones" on this group. Anyway, don't feel bad, I promise you
there will be no shortage of opportunities to mock and ridicule me,
along with your ignorant friends, so you can all feel better about your
ignorance. Just to show that I am not so deeply offended by your stupid
amateurish little con job, I will give you a free tweak for your CDs,
that won't ruin them. It's a RAO exclusive that you won't hear anywhere
else, because I recently invented it. Why would I share this advanced
idea with the ignorant swine of RAO, who have proven that they have no
clue as to what is and isn't valid in audio? That's for me to know and
you to find out... Now get a strong magnet (a good example is from an
old speaker driver). Place the north pole just above the label side of
the CD, turn it slowly clockwise a few times, over the entire surface
of the CD.

Mock away, mockingbirds....