How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

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.

Onhwy61 wrote:
"He doesn't explain why storing the data on a hard drive degrades the sound which leads to question along the line of whether just storing the data in a memory buffer also degrades the sound?"

This makes no sense to me either. Copies from the hard-disk should be every bit as good or better than ones from the original CD.