Anyone have experience with the Nanotec Nespa?

Leec, Thanks for your comparisons; that was helpful. John

Leec and Hooper,

Leec mentioned that there was an improvement if the Reality Check treatment was followed by Nespa's treatment. Is there an improvement if the Nespa is followed by Reality Check? If so, then both may be useful to get the optimal sound out of the CD (but at the cost of greater PITA).

Best Regards,
John

Tbg, Have you had a chance to compare the Nespa and RC treatments? The cleaning fluid is another variable here. It would be interesting to compare "copying" with "zapping by light". So, to do an objective comparison, perhaps you can clean the CD and all CDRs with the same fluid and then compare as many of the following as your patience will allow: plain CD, Nespa, RC, Nespa followed by RC, RC followed by Nespa. I found Leec's comparisons very interesting, but I don't recall if he removed the cleaning fluid out of the equation by cleaning all discs first.

Norm (Tbg),

WOW, a score of 5 as compared to 1, 1.5 or 2. That is attention getting.Thanks for the info. Great work! The one thing that is consistent in your experiment as well as Leec's and Sksos' experiments is that Nespaing an RC cd-r is beneficial. Leec's results suggest that Nespaing a cd-r before duplication is detrimental. While Sksos Nespad the original CD before duplicating it, he did not give us a comparison between an RC copy of a Nespad CD and a Nespad RC copy of a Nespad CD. Your tonight's experiment should provide this missing piece. Please let us know your outcome.

Best Regards,
John

Sksos and Leec,

Have either of you compared the sonic improvements made by Intron #8500 Protect and the Reality Check's cleaning fluids PRIOR to duplication. Also, what is the sonic comparison between the DUPLICATES that were made using these two cleaners.

Best Regards,
John

Tbg and Leec, Thanks for sharing your info.

Does anyone know of a modder who is offering modifications for the Reality Check duplicator or the Cool Copy duplicator or any other standalone duplicator (one that doesn't use a computer). Such modifications could include installing a linear power supply (which Gary Loh considers very important), software similar to the Exact Audio Copy or Plex Tools (to guarantee accurate duplication), a Super Clock (to reduce jitter), and a hard drive. Using software to first get an accurate copy onto the hard drive, then using software to select which tracts you want to duplicate from the hard drive onto your black CD-R discs offers a nice flexibility. Making a compilation of several favorite selections from a number of CDs onto a single black disc is more convenient when it comes to listening.

Best Regards,
John