"Recommended Component" 2013 - Stereophile
"Don't Dismiss It Until You Try It." - Stereophile
System-Enhancing Burn-in and Test CD
The Irrational, But Efficacious! test CD from Ayre is will enhance your listening enjoyment by improving your audio system.
Stereophile magazine honored the Irrational, But Efficacious! CD by including it in its "Recommended Components" list for 2013. "Highly recommended," said the magazine. "Don't dismiss it until you try it."
Fine-minute Glide Tone
The main tool is a five-minute glide tone, that when played through your system at a moderately low volume, will improve its sound. Ayre reports that the tone helps demagnetize residual fields that build up in your components over time.
The other tracks have more specialized functions and feature white noise, pink noise, brown noise, etc. All tracks were created digitally with 88.2 kHz, 32-bit resolution. Enhanced resolution transfer to the 44.1 kHz, 16-bit CD format was performed using 0.5 bits of dither with a triangular probability distribution function for maximum fidelity.
