Hands on experience....not opinions

Yes I'm impressed with the sound .........so much so I've now just bought a unit !

 

So it's all round your place then Pete for a lathe party...lol.

Tim.

 

yeah, I'll be posting some cds...

 

I'll willingly do you a cd ...once I've got the thing and of course learnt its foibles .....

tim ...I can bring the discs up to you or you could pop over ?

 

I'd like you to come around to mine and have a listen to my set-up at some point Pete....maybe when the lathe as arrived and you've had a good try yourself....then you can have a couple of my cd's to lathe....
Where did you get it from?

Tim.

 

From WM at coherence

 

cool - of course i'll pay for the services...

 

You'll have to charge a fee per cd Pete, if its that good i'd give it a go. Jim.

 

Mine arrived last night...

Huge outer box, very well packed, first tried on a Pink Floyd DVD, to make sure I didnt screw-up any of my favourite discs...

Felt like one curtain was removed, played subjectively louder, more detail, didnt pay much attention to image, but colours appear more vivid...

All my test where before and after, I have no duplicate discs...

Then my reference 4 stations SACD with vintage instruments, including Stradivarius.

Played the first track, then with High Fidelity Pur White-Mirror CD-Mat, could ear the harpsichord more detailed, notes before sounded kind of incomplete, like the decay didnt play to the end, now they where more fluid, mids noticeably better...

Then shaved and painted the disc edge, again, curtain lifted, sounded louder, harpsichord detail there, mids even better, creamier, if you know what I mean, goose bumps big time...

CD-Mat on top, no noticeable difference now...

Treated 4 more SACDs + 1 DVD, besides the mentioned improvement, I also noticed that bass is sharper, better defined, tried the CD-mat again, with a Rosa Passos and Ben Carter disc, and bass got worst as before treatment...

Cant wait for the Nespa #1...

 

Well Zanash dropped in and left 2 CDs here today. Both the same album. One lathed and penned, one not. For once it isn't a "did I hear it or not ... I think I did ... maybe .... or not" experience which for me these things usually are but an obvious one. Its a Eleanor Macevoy album (not my cuppa, but not the point). On one CD there is sibilance and on the other, same track, there isn't. But its an obvious enough difference I think you get it right pretty much 100% of the time. Evidence for me that something is happening here. dunno if its the pen or the lathe but last time we did this with a pen, I'm pretty sure it did nowt. If old tin ears here can hear it, there must be something in it.

 

I thought auntie ants reaction after listening to the uncut disc then five seconds in to the lathed cd said it all .....

"was it the same album !"

 

Do you also get the feeling that a curtain was lifted, everything sounds clearer ?

 

Just more space around the instraments ....the performers seemed to be enjoying the session ..not just going through the motions.

On uncle ants system ....performer placement improved [yes I know you've room issues] but the impression was that the singers etc were less tightly clumped inbetween the speakers.

I'm not certain it lifted a curtain ...but thats just terminology I imagine were hearing similar effects !

 

Basically doing the 3 treatments turns cd into a very enjoyable experiance.
The difference in the main listen system is quite remarkable here.

 

whats the ceapest price I can buy one of these devices for..?

 

give wm a call !

 

Hooooorah! Not just me then?

Hoorah! After having to deal with silly responses in another thread it's nice to have one's ears of many years confirmed as knowing their business by people WHO HAVE ACTUALLY LISTENED. This thing works fellow audiophiles, it's just a bit of a devil having to clear up all the shavings!

No experience of a nespa - interested to hear if that is as effective. i think i can honestly say that for favourite music i can';t do without this device now and that is saying something!

 

The Nespa pro is a good step up from the cd lathe, brings out far more naturalness, much cleaner and deeper bass, much better vocal ranges plus the upper frequenices are really bright to life and that harsh/brightness is a thing of the past.
As Lawrence says, once you have tried these items you just can't listen to virgin cd again!!

 

It is interesting how different shavings are, audiophile discs, dont produce much, but DVDs are a mess...

Yesterday I shaved a few more discs, including one XRCD, it improved as much as the others...

I wonder if I should treat a black vinyl CD, as it is black, I assume it wont make any difference...

 

review here - I assume the exact same device?

only 320 quid seemingly...

http://www.svalander.se/cdsi/hi-fi+_issue_44-1.pdf