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Yes. The CR gives you 100% (virtually) mineral/ion free water. It's a completely amazing device. However, be prepared to spend $$$ on resin every so often, or possibly blow up your house like a meth lab trying to regenerate it.
The other things is a water softener. "Soft" water is sodium heavy (salt or sodium bicarbonate ) and calcium light (calcium carbonate). The calcium carbonate is what leaves the nasty etching staining water spots. While a water softener won't eliminate water spots, a CR Spotless can. Sodium type water spots are *supposedly* easier to remove. The water softener is rechargeable with salt.
Think I got all that right.
I have the biggest CR and have found the most effective and cost saving way to use it.
First I only use it for the final rinse.
And to keep the big canisters of resin lasting as long as possible I use a resin pre-filter.
It is just a small, single filter version of the CR type filter. But when it's resin clogs and I need to replace it, it only requires less than a quarter of the resin that the CR takes. And by taking the load off the big CR filter they last much, much longer.
Here's the little filter I ended up using.
I got the clear garden hose housing
Garden Hose Filters – Pure Water Products, LLC
And the resin cartridge
Water Softening Cartridge – Pure Water Products, LLC
The resin to re-charge the cartridge you can get on here on the CR page.