I was one of their first customers and I happened to have the Neutrik A-2 Audio Test Station in the studio when my first RNC arrived. With 6dB of compression going in, it beat ALL of its published specs by whole orders of magnitude. The response was flat out to beyond 100kHz, the noise was around -128dB, and the distortion was around .0013%.
The test measurements from the Neutrik were almost too good to be true and I called Mark McQuilken (for the first time) to find out what I must have been doing wrong. It turned out that I wasn't doing anything wrong, and those measurements were typical of the production RNC. In short, it was the cleanest, quietest, lowest distortion compressor I've ever heard - at any price. We run 6 "paid for" RNC's in each of our two studios, and they get used constantly.
If you think the RNC is "crap", then tell me of a compressor with better specs.
Steve Albini has four of them. A lot of the major engineers I know swear by them. It's easy to call something "crap" on the Internet, without offering any proof to back it up. I've measured it; it's even better than they claim, and we've used it on several major label releases. Care to explain exactly why it's "crap" and what's 'better' at that price point?