Here are some comments by Andrew Claps:
If people listen with open ears, they will be blown into next month by Ultrabit Diamond Plus. This stuff is, by no small measure, the best optical-disc treatment I've ever, EVER tried. The way it uncovers layers and layers of long-buried information, but with zero highlighting, really needs to be experienced "first-ear. The written word can only do so much. There are certainly CD treatments that do this or that very well, but precious few in my experience yield across-the-board improvements. The only one I can think of, prior to the Diamond, was George Louis own Ultrabit Platinum Plus, which has reigned supreme in my listening room for years.
But time marches on, and George's mind has obviously not laid still. The Diamond sees the UBP-P and raises it several notches. It excavates much more musical information and untangles complex productions and arrangements in a way that even the UDP-P simply can't. It also improves 3-CD recovery so dramatically that, in a darkened room, it can scare you if conditions are right (or even if they aren't, for that matter.
It's truly a mind-altering experience to hear recordings you've heard a thousand times revealed in such startlingly new ways. Yes, that's a hopelessly worn cliché, but I believe that there's a little truth in every cliché, and the Diamond is that truth in this particular one. In the sports world, the best athletes often say that, for them, the game slows down to a much greater degree than it does for other players. And, seemingly, so it is with the Diamond. Musical lines are laid clear with exacting precision, and it?s almost like listening to CDs in slow-motion (in the best sense of that phrase). Everything is so remarkably clear, so precise, so open and untangled and intelligible, but sans ANY edge or accentuation whatsoever. It's easily the most "even" -sounding optical treatment I've ever experienced.
High-end audio is rife with hyperbole and puffery, but Ultrabit Diamond Plus is one of the few audio-related anythings I've owned or heard that absolutely defies the hype. It deserves every single plaudit that comes it way. To listen to a CD or SACD without it is like experiencing music in blurry, divided fractions rather than as a whole, clear, breathing entity. It's simply the best of the best, in my opinion. In my experience, SHMs can benefit just as much as non-SHMs. Despite the seemingly advanced coating, they are clearly not optically perfect, as evidenced by UBD-P's effectiveness--at least in my case.
Andy (Andrew) Claps
And from the developer, George himself. I though I would add his comments fairly Verbatim:
For
the next 10
years, 10
seconds and 10
cents is all
you need!
First, why would
any music-loving
audiophile want
to buy and use
UltraBit
Diamond-Plus™
(UBD-P) with
CD's, SACD's or
for that matter
any kind of
laser-read
media? First of
all you need to
get better Music
in to get better
music out, to
rehear what's
really possible.
Just ask almost
anyone (except
of course a user
of UBD-P) and
they'll tell you
that if you get
the all the
digital 1's and
0's right, and
reduce digital
jitter to
inaudibility if
that's all there
is to
emotionally
involving
digital playback
and you'll get a
resounding yes,
"...what else is
there..."? Well
after you take
10 seconds and
10 cents of
UBD-P and apply
it once every 10
years to any
laser-read media
you'll hear for
yourself just
how much
emotional
involvement with
the music
they're missing
and just how
much they have
to learn.
UBD-P is an
Optical
Impedance
Matching
Treatment™
(OIMT) for all
laser-read media
that enables any
disc's digital
data to be read
better. What
most people
don't know is
that when the
digital bits
encoded on
laser-read media
are first read
they are
converted to an
optical eye
pattern that's
actually an
analog signal
before it's
reinterpreted
into digital for
further digital
signal
processing (DSP)
and conversion
back to the
analog signal by
digital to
analog
converters
(DACs). And
that changes
everything from
the pure digital
process to a
hybrid digital
encoded to
analog to
digital and back
to analog
playback which
that it works at
all let alone as
well as it does
is quite an
electronic
engineering
triumph.
The analog part
of the disc
reading is where
Digital Systems
& Solutions
thinks most of
the problems of
digital playback
are. If you
care to read
more about the
process, there's
a white paper on
our website at:
http://audiogeorge.com/how-optical-impedance-matching-works-a-technical-white-paper/
that describes
the process of
reading bits in
excruciating
detail.
The effects of
applying UBD-P
and buffing
discs with
different sides
of the included
buffing cloths
proves that we
didn't know what
we didn't know
about how to
read digital
media and we
still don't know
have all the
answers because
the bits are all
the same. But
isn't hearing it
for yourself the
only proof you
should need,
because
ultimately
nothing else
really matter
does it?
And lastly, even
if you only have
a relatively
modest
investment of
money and time
in your system,
but you still
like to optimize
its performance,
then using UBD-P
may enhance its
quality to where
it exceeds the
fidelity of much
costlier systems
that don’t enjoy
its benefits.
As every
music-loving
audiophile knows
that the
paradigm of
“diminishing
returns” rules
the world of
high-end audio
and video so
that makes UBD-P
one of the most
cost effective
upgrades you can
buy. Therefore,
every serious
music-loving
audio and
videophile who
would like to
maximize the
fidelity and
musicality of
his or hers
audio and video
systems should
use UBD-P.
Best regards,
George
Buy it now for UltraBit Diamond-Plus or with the CleanDisc-Plus added.
.