How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

>>what is blatantly obvious to the rest of us<<

I guess I'd feel like that if I was snookered into an order of snake oil and left holding the pouch. Keep on hearing what you want to hear. It'll be there for as long as you want it to be. Maybe you can turn lead into gold next.
LOL

Tvad wrote:
"If one burns a black CD on a laptop computer running on battery power, and the copy is made at a low speed, would it then follow that this burned CD would conceivably be better than the original, notwithstanding the inferior clock on the computer?"

Could be better, but no guarantees. Depends on the power and grounding in PC and the clock jitter, as well as the quality of the burner CDROM or DVDROM.

Herman wrote:
"why, given the low cost of memory and computing power, doesn't every player above the entry level read and re-clock the data to the dac thereby eliminating this variable from the equation?"

This is understandable. To make a system like this behave just like a normal CD player is a HUGE undertaking. There is a lot of software development because of things like: what happens when you decide to skip ahead on the current playing track or skip back to the last track? This is simple for a regular CD player, but if the data is cached in memory, there may be a large latency to flush the memory cache and refill it with new data and then begin playing it. The system must actually "look-ahead" and predict what the user will likely do with the remote buttons, otherwise, there is a big latency penalty. There is also the issue of DVD-A and SACD. The computer model wil not work for these, so the player must revert back to a standard-type player. It's really a can of worms to make is behave like a standard universal player.

TBG - I have no idea what has been done to the RC burner. I may not be much better than some standard CD-R or DVD-R burners. The one that I am modding should be substantially better than anything that can be purchased because it wil have Superclock3, digital and power mods and battery power.

I think some of the opinion I am reading here, Mapleshade
has been doing them long time ago,like treating their
cd with their own solutions,before recording, It works.
What I do just simply spin the original cd and the blank
CDR on my bedini ultraclarifier, after treating them with
either fynil or the mapleshape solutions,and it is even
better if you use the MF CDR.This is very simple with
good result and not expensive.