The Testing

I performed a lot of tests using both devices. To get test samples, I told all my friends about this review and I soon found a stack of CD's in my room from people whose CD's were not happy..

The first CD I tried, was an Audio CD which had several smaller scratches, dirt and a few larger scratches..

I put this in the Dr Fix It and let it do it's stuff. It removed all the minor scratches and dirt and the CD was useable again, except for one track which seemed majorly affected by a rather deep scratch:

I used the deep scratch pad, but to no avail. No matter how many times I ran it through the Dr Fix It, it made no difference.

So I try the SkipDr, and notice no difference :( Looks like this scratch is too deep to be repaired.

I then took 6 or 7 CD's from my friend Sarah who was complaining of major skipping. I repaired each and every one of them using both devices and they all worked in my Pioneer Slot Loading DVD drive. Yet when taken back to her Hi-Fi, 50% of them were not much better.

Could it be, her hi-fi's error correction routines are inferior to my DVD drive? Or perhaps the lens is a little dirty? I recommended that she got a cd-lens cleaner, to see if that solves the problem and things worked. I think Samuel Beckett got it right in his play "Waiting for Godot"..

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."

So, testing wasn't particularly scientific - but the point is, they both work and to roughly the same quality. But there are plenty of other deciding factors..

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