How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck?

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.

Tbg,
I burned 5 CDs on George's black discs prior to modifying the unit. My comments refer to these 5 CDs and to the CDs I've made with my modified unit.

Exlibris, can you tell us more of your modified unit? Louis reported he has a customer who has added a linear supply and is exploring its benefits. Is the customer you? I have done nothing due to Christmas, CES coming up, and final exams.