Anyone have experience with the Nanotec Nespa?

Norm, maybe, maybe not. I'm only the importer and with 75 now sold, many are on back-order (I think yours will be in the shipment if you are getting one from our mutual friend) we shall see. It does change the sound of CD's, for the better, I've never claimed, nor do I understand, how this works, but once Nespa'd there's no doubt there is a BIG improvement. So much so I've already sold my RealityCheck duplicator. Yes the duplicator works also but it's also a PITA.
I'm told by Japan that there are now over 500 Nespa units sold :-)
Please keep us posted, once you receive yours, about what you think, your thoughts are much valued.

I've heard several Nespa'd discs, and there is a difference. Whether the Nespa disc is better than the original is for the end user to decide.

The AA RealityCheck thread demonstrates that when it comes to tweaks, there is nothing in the audiophile world that doesn't exist outside the audiophile world.

I'll be interested to read the first post that provides a link to the same CD spinner used by Nespa, and the corresponding light bulb. The flashlight aisle at Fry's Electronics is full of extreme intensity LED flashlights with bazillions of lumens. The bulb used in the Nespa can't be hard to track down and install in a generic spinner for considerably less than the Nespa's asking price.

Tvad, yours is a curious post. Of course, tweaks and everything else in audio is also outside the world of audio. Even if it is the case that the Reality Check unit is the same as that available for a lower price, there are other units, namely most computers that fail to achieve what is achieved in this unit. Why? And if the RC unit is better than what appears to be the same, what would you conclude?

Similarly with the bright light and the Nespa.

Both George Louis and the inventor of the Nespa have spent time developing this and hopefully both will get a return on their successful developing it. Perhaps, the internet limits the return they can get and perhaps many will be discouraged from bothering given the limited return. If so, the internet will have killed tweaks and possibly all innovations.

Interestingly in the case of the CLC and the IC, where people cannot reverse engineer the tweak, they demand to be told how they work or refuse to be interested. Were I to be an inventor, I would, of course, tell such people to go to hell.

02-11-06: Tbg
Tvad, yours is a curious post.

Why? Because I question the possibility of re-packaging at a ridiculous mark-up?

Of course, tweaks and everything else in audio is also outside the world of audio. Even if it is the case that the Reality Check unit is the same as that available for a lower price, there are other units, namely most computers that fail to achieve what is achieved in this unit. Why?

Because out of cost cutting concerns, most computers do not have the same high quality DVD/CD drives that are installed in dedicated duplicators. Basic economics.

And if the RC unit is better than what appears to be the same, what would you conclude?

The RC unit thus far has not been demonstrated to be better than the IO Shop burner, so I conclude nothing.

Interestingly in the case of the CLC and the IC, where people cannot reverse engineer the tweak, they demand to be told how they work or refuse to be interested.

Every invention with substance and a basis in science can be reverse engineered, as history has proved. Only devices based on pseudo-science cannot be reverse engineered because their benefits are myth, and their science is non existant. Like crystal balls, rabbit's feet and palm reading.

If the product works as claimed and the price is exorbitant, then market forces will drive the price down as competing, lower priced copies enter the marketplace. The question is, will audiophiles recognize the value of the cheaper, but equivalent knock-offs, or will they ascribe some greater effectiveness to the original and continue to pay the higher price?