Just have to share this story of CD isolation with you.

I was at my old girlfriend's house and she was complaining about having to replace her CD player. I said, "What's wrong with it?"

"It keeps skipping, but only on some CDs." Naturally, testing those CDs on other players proves the CDs are OK.

So we test it out. She puts on Nine Inch Nails and we sit back. After only a few seconds of "Closer to God", the CD player is skipping and having a lot of trouble.

I stand up, and lift the CD player off the speaker on which it had been resting. Suddenly the skipping stopped. No big surprise to find out that the pieces on which it had been skipping were the loud ones...

But would an 'isolation pad' have been useful?

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