How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

I'm one of the referred-to past beta testers for George Louis. A major part of last year and the first 2 months of this year were spent doing endless listening and evaluating sessions of duplicators, drivers, controllers, power sources, cdrs and fluids.

I was the one that originally turned Steve onto the Cool Copy device, including the link for purchasing. It's sad that he stood accused as a self-promoting dealer when all he was doing was trying to share a product he likes that I believe many will eventually find to be the real deal (cost and performance-wise). Besides, the Cool Copy is on sale at a price below the wholesale cost... so why would Steve even bother being a dealer for it?

We have done quite a bit of testing that made it very obvious that the Cool Copy created copies that were more enjoyable to listen to than what the current RC duplicator produces. The response was 100% among all 3 of us (George's local SoCal testers).

We listened and compared on several very diverse systems. The bulk of George's listening is done primarily with headphones. We don't listen the way George does. We have our opinions and he has his. And we all benefit in the end.

Any questions re. RealityCheck or Cool Copy? BTW, the Cool Copy is fun to tweak.

Rhirsch, thanks for the post. Can you say more about the way the Cool Copy may be tweaked? Also, if you will, tell us about how you cleaned both the originals and blanks.

i have been one watching and waiting on this whole CDR burning thing.....and almost pulled the trigger a few times on RC......but it seemed a bit of a moving target.

i was at an interesting 'late night' demo at 2006 CES where some RC 'insiders' did a bit-for-bit comparison between a RC treated disc and an original and the quite knowledgable person doing the comparison said the 2 discs were not bit for bit identical; although he could not specify exactly the difference.

soooo; i had been waiting to see how this all shook out. then.............

i read the 'deleted thread' on AA the other night before it was gone. 'sk' is a very credible guy; so i ordered the Cool Copy burner and the Silver on Black Prodisc CDR's immediately that night and they are in transit.

after reading Rhirsch's post it sounds like hopefully i am on the right track here. at the price of these items it is a no-brainer.

thanks to sk and the 'Bobs' for the heads up.

i am also interested in any tweaks.

Good for you Mike. I'm looking forward to your report.

Ditto on the "Bobs" - great work from both of them.

Regards,

Hey Mike... glad you waited, you're going to like the Cool Copy unit. I was one of the "Bobs" at the demo you refered to. We ended up staying there another hour after you left!

Man, I didn't think I would get very many Cool Copy responses at the Asylum, but my mailbox was stuffed with inquiries this morning. I just finished answering them, so now onto this thread.

The following is cut and pasted from my email response(s) this morning.

(1)... we found that putting the Cool Copy on footers does appear to improve the quality of the copies. The ones that work best so far are the roller bearing type. We use the Darumas as the much higher priced Symposiums seemed like overkill.

(2)... with the lid closed, you'll notice that there are 2 vertical slotted, dark tinted windows above each drive. Cover these with photo blackout or electricians tape. This keeps extraneous light from affecting the laser (ymmv... we thought we heard a difference).

(3)... plug the AC adapter into a line conditioner if you have one. Less AC noise couldn't hurt.

(4)... the black ProDisc cdr's definitely worked better than the others we tried (Memorex black, Verbatim black and blue azo and Mobilfidelity Gold). We found them at this link for $30 per 100...

http://www.shop4tech.com/item2044.html

(5)... cd treatment, the Nanotech #8500 cd spray is fantastic. It's the first treatment I've encountered that made such an audible difference you don't have to go back and forth comparing to make sure. We compared it with all of the RealityCheck sprays, both versions of Vivid, old and new Auric, Optrix and Shine Ola. You can contact Steve Klein (the only source I know of) at

http://www.soundsofsilence.com/

This should get you started... more testing this weekend... so will post more on Sunday.