Can you bend / Stability in a CD

[treitz3]

Strange question. Maybe not. When you take a CD, SACD, DVD [We'll just call it a CD from here forth], whatever...and take it out of the jewel case, bend the CD when you are removing it.....does it damage the layer in which the laser reads it, over time or not?

[dorokusai]

Nope. I'm sure some rocket scientist will eventually enter and state the opposite but I'll probably be 100% uninterested at that point. It's a funny thought but there are bigger things to worry about in audio.

[treitz3]

Look at it from my point of view. I recently took back up vinyl. Many factors. Screw the RS's. Important? yes/sound. Over time, just like any other media.....important, yes. Read sig.

[zingo]

I doubt it. I have heard many myths about damaging and degrading CD, but I have never seen any of them come true.

[F1nut]

I just bent one my CD's over, poked her in the hole and had a Dark Sumatra afterwards. Later I cleaned her up, threw her in the player and heard her screaming, "give it to me, give it to me" all over again. My conclusion, no damage was done.

[Polkitup2]

I just bent one my CD's over, poked her in the hole and had a Dark Sumatra afterwards. Later I cleaned her up, threw her in the player and heard her screaming, "give it to me, give it to me" all over again. My conclusion, no damage was done.

Now that is sig material!

[Keiko]

I just bent one my CD's over, poked her in the hole and had a Dark Sumatra afterwards. Later I cleaned her up, threw her in the player and heard her screaming, "give it to me, give it to me" all over again. My conclusion, no damage was done.
LMFAO! :D

[Fireman32]

Nice!

[ohskigod]

I gotta assume tolerances are built in for bending.

[unc2701]

My roommate in college once completely cracked a CD from the edge to the center hole taking it out of the case... just for laughs we threw it in the player and it played!!! No skipping, no jitter, nothing. We were dumbfounded, but it was a very clean break and perfect perpendicular to the edge of the disc- worked for about two weeks, but eventually we screwed it up by pulling the crack open to show people how bad it was and the foil layer around the crack flaked off.

[reeltrouble1]

I gotta assume tolerances are built in for bending.

hmmmmm..............after F1's experience it would certainly appear so.

RT1

[madmax]

CD's should always be stored and used in an anti-gravity enviroment.
madmax

[Music Joe]

...sitting in a buds Chevy pick-up I spyed a horribly sun warped jewel case on the dash. I pick it up and say "ya KNOW extreme heat will ruin these" with a big :D
This thing looked mangled in the jewel case and I just had to see the disc inside. Well as I try to open the case, we hear this 'Twing' sound and the disc springs out of the jewel case bounces off the headliner onto the dash again.
I pick it up... look it over and it looks fine.We both get the 'wonder if it will play' idea at the same time.Checked for warpage against another good disc 1st before playing it. It played fine.

[hearingimpared]

You can always put The Clamp on it Tom!:D:D:D:p

[John in MA]

The silvering on a CD is flexible, but it can crack or peel off the disc if bent enough.

[treitz3]

Ok, I'm getting the sense that this was not the best of questions. Sorry to have bugged you all, I was just wondering. Questions like this from me are a result of many, many a beer and almost breaking a CD trying to get the damn thing out.

I was just pondering that if I bent the CD that much, stretched the foil layer, that the laser would have to correct more reading errors. Maybe I should stop thinking about shit like this when I'm on the beer.

[John in MA]

That would be a logical assumption, but I've never read anything conclusive on it.

As long as you're drinking, wanna buy some speakers the size of washing machines? :)

[Keiko]

Ok, I'm getting the sense that this was not the best of questions. Sorry to have bugged you all, I was just wondering. Questions like this from me are a result of many, many a beer and almost breaking a CD trying to get the damn thing out.

I was just pondering that if I bent the CD that much, stretched the foil layer, that the laser would have to correct more reading errors. Maybe I should stop thinking about shit like this when I'm on the beer.
I think you should have another beer treitz. ;)

[treitz3]

Workin' on it as I type brother! ;) :D http://www.freewebby.com/beer-food-sick-smilies/alcoholic.gif

[Keiko]

Workin' on it as I type brother! ;) :D http://www.freewebby.com/beer-food-sick-smilies/alcoholic.gif
Good man! :cool:

BTW treitz...comes to mind the only issues I've had with CD's and the foil layer cracking or peeling has been with the color-coated/color-layered CD-R's. And for whatever reason, I was told these types are susceptibile to breaking down prematurely. Just stick with a good name brand CD-R like TDK, Verbatim and a quality micro-brew and you'll be set bro. :)


"All I need are some cool buds and some tastey waves dude and I'm fine." Jeff Spicoli :o

[skipf]

Micro-brew? Treitz drinks icehouse. Good ole all american boy that don't need no stinking fancy pants beer. Next thing Ya know is somebody is gonna tell him to replace his zip cord IC's with one of those high dollar cables we all know aren't any better than plain ole wire.:D