Abstract We study whether it is possible to apply twisted Laplace spectra (and, if so, how many are necessary) deduce isometry of some well-known examples isospectral manifolds in the literature, due Schüth (simply connected manifolds), Ikeda (lens spaces), Vignéras/Linowitz and Voight (arithmetic surfaces), Milnor (lattice examples), Doyle Rossetti (Tetra Didi), Sunada (based on group-theoreti...