How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

Stanhifi,
First up, in audio terms, $600 isn't 'serious money'.
Secondly, if I didn't like the product I would have returned it to George and got my money back rather than trying to "justify my purchase by writing a rave review".

$600 is a lot of money to some people; don't be so disingenuous.
You're hearing what you want to hear. About $500 flushed down the old porcelain altar.

disingenuous, strange to come from you!

The fact that the original and the copy sound different is not even debatable. Whether or not the copy is 'better' than the original, is. There is certianly more openess and better depth on the copy.
Stanhifi,
You should post the details of your system; it might give us some idea of why you can't hear what is blatantly obvious to the rest of us (and our non-audiophile friends).

Based upon the rewritten CD's that I have tried, I believe it is just jitter in the pits of the original. If the data is transferred to a computer hard disk and then rewritten by a burner with a precision low-jitter clock and clean power, such as batteries, and the copy is made at low speed to get more accurate pit shapes, then the copy should be significantly better than the original. Makes perfect technical sense to me.