How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

" I do know several people, me included, who have tried to find better blanks with no success." Tbg
Tbg could you please elaborate upon your experience with various blanks?
Today Georges blanks just absolutely murdered the dirt cheap Iomation blanks and was clearly superior to the highly regarded Mitsui gold blanks

Mejames, I am still awaiting additional Verbatim "Super Azo" CD-Rs, but on the two I have, they prove not as good as the RC blanks. This is contrary to what Todd found. See: http://www.AudioAsylum.com/audio/general/messages/412248.html

I have also used run of the mill blanks from TDF and Verbatim. Others have had more experience with other blanks. See the many posts on AA by Quint.

I am like you in being impressed with the RC blanks used with the cleaner Louis sells.

After listening to a number of live recordings I am reconsidering my blanket position on the duplicate CDs.

Tvad identified... "two definitions of "air" that are bandied about on Audiogon. One means blackness, or silence, between instruments and vocalists. The other definition of "air" means a sense of the recording venue: ambience, echo, reverberation...those aural cues that give the listener a sense of place."

I personally would never use the first of these to define "air." The second definition of "air" is just about perfect.

In my experience, the CD duplicates create a silence between images, but reduce "air." This tends to make poorly recorded studio albums sound cleaner and clearer.

Are these burned with your revised RC unit and on what blanks. I ask because I have more of a sense of the hall and recording venue with the RC copies on their blanks.

Exlibris wrote:

In my experience, the CD duplicates create a silence between images, but reduce "air." This tends to make poorly recorded studio albums sound cleaner and clearer.

This echoes my observations as I listened and compared three original CDs and their RealityCheckCD copies.

I did prefer the RealityCheckCD version of one recording to the CD original. With the other two, I preferred the CD original. The RealityCheckCD I liked better was a copy of a poorly recorded CD, the two RealityCheckCDs I did not prefer were copies of well recorded CDs.

In all cases, my preferences were directly related to "air" and silence between images as described by Exlibris.