Audience Power Conditioner

[Guest Audio Concept]

Audience som gjort sig kända för att leverera marknadens finaste, läs bästa (och tunnaste) kablar har nu kommit med en Power Conditioner – Adept Response, av det seriösa slaget. Vi kör den nu, - och ja - det gör positiv skillnad. Enheten, med tolv stycken Schuko kontakter finns att provlyssna och låna hos oss. Nedan kan du läsa om dess olika finesser.

Mvh, Audio Concept, Robert

””The Adept Response High Resolution Master Power Conditioner is a cutting edge design intended to provide the best power conditioning possible without limiting dynamics. Since power must respond quickly and completely to the demands of program material we believe it is imperative that power conditioning components present a low impedance power path while providing wide bandwidth noise reduction. Conventional power conditioners simply cannot approach the bandwidth/impedance characteristics of the Adept Response while still offering effective noise filtration and high voltage surge protection. Exclusive Audience technology achieves far greater performance for all audio and video components.

Of the power conditioning products on the market today few allow your playback system to attain full dynamic range or reproduce subtle dynamic contrasts accurately. The other culprit afflicting most power conditioning products is the ubiquitous MOV. (Metal Oxide Varistor) The MOV is a sacrificial device. This means it wears down over time until it fails completely. Its purpose is to clamp high voltage transients safely to ground instead of through your equipment. This would be fine if it didn’t break down and behave like the world's worst capacitor across your power line, storing energy and releasing it as performance robbing, time delayed distortion into your audio system. The effect is quite audible. For surge protection the Adept Response employs a non-wearing type high voltage transient suppression.

Adept Response uses only the finest conducting, filtering and transient suppression components. Even the power switch is exceptional, a very high quality magnetic circuit breaker. The advantage over thermal circuit breakers is that thermal breakers increase in resistance as power demand increases, causing heat dependent, resistive modulation of the incoming voltage. This effectively reduces the power available to your equipment just when you need it most. The design employed in the Adept Response provides for the most natural flow of music.

The state of the art inductive components used in the Adept Response power conditioner add no significant series resistance. This maintains a low impedance power path to your playback system. Also, the Adept Response performs power factor correction. This helps restore natural dynamics by bringing the AC voltage and current into a better phase relationship allowing a more efficient transfer of power. With the Adept Response as your power conditioner all aspects of the audio/video performance are greatly improved. Your playback system will no longer be starved of clean high quality power. The result is realistic, beautiful audio and stunning video resolution.

Each of the 12 outlets is individually filtered and double filtered from every other outlet providing maximum component to component isolation. This means an entire audio or video system including everything from digital components and phonograph preamplifiers to power amplifiers can easily be powered by the same conditioner. This extensive noise filtering creates a lower noise floor and improves low level resolution, providing superior sound stage presentation. Power amplifiers plugged into the Adept Response display increased dynamics and perform as if they were more powerful.

This incredible performance is only equaled by the ten year warranty. Audience will repair or replace any factory defective Adept Response power product for the warranty period.

Audience power products set a new performance benchmark in power conditioning. The proof is in the experience. Try the Adept Response in your own system. The Adept Response may be returned in good condition within 30 days for a full refund.””

Features:

•Main power cable included: Standard 6 ft. 10 AWG powerChord by Audience with Neutrik 20A Powercon and Marinco power connectors

•Low resistance, heavy duty magnetic circuit breaker power switch

•No high resistance type series inductors

•Ultra-high efficiency filter components on every outlet

•Double filtering between outlets for maximum component to component isolation

•Dynamic range performance maximized by some power factor correction

•Entire audio and/or video system can be powered by a single Adept Response power conditioner

•Audience Auricap High Resolution Capacitors used exclusively in filter sections

•Digital incoming voltage readout on front panel

•Entire electrical circuitry cryogenically treated

[eliot]

Låter mycket intressant

Hur mycket kostar underverket

Länk till företaget

[Guest Audio Concept]

Eliot,

vi har inte satt priset i Sverige än. I USA kostar den 3 800 $

Vi återkommer om priset.

mvh, Robert

[datar]

3800$ ca 26600 kr... rätt maffigt pris..

[eliot]

Det är planerat en test på den på sixmoons för april/maj

[Guest Audio Concept]

Datar,

visst - 26 000.- är mycket pengar. Därmed är det enda vettiga en spekulant kan göra, - att prova den i det egna systemet för att se om en sådan investering är värd att göra. Om det är så beror mycket på rådande strömkvalitet där man bor/spelar, vilket kan variera kraftigt mellan olika användare.

Eftersom det är 12 uttag på den och kapaciteten är rätt hög, kan du säkerställa perfekt strömkvalitet till alla enheter i anläggningen, vilket är värd att ta med i beräkningen.

Eliot,

vi följer upp med resultatet från six moons recensionen när den anländer.

mvh, Robert

[eliot]

Den har precis blivit testad i Positive Feedback, nummer 18:

I believe that Audience has solved the power conditioner  conundrum that you have to lose a little to gain a little. While similar in  appearance to much of its competition, the adeptResponse goes about its business  quite differently, and in a manner proprietary to Audience. For one thing, the  adeptResponse eschews MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) design, a technology employed  as either the first or second line of defense against power surges in most line  conditioners. MOVs keep everything under control, but tend to put a bit of a  chokehold on the proceedings. The sound is neat and tidy, but flat and  compressed, lacking the proverbial breath of life.

The adeptResponse has that breath of life in spades. It  brought crystal-clear clarity to my system, with every instrumental line  perfectly delineated, but all that detail was delivered without the least bit of  edge or etch. On the contrary, tonality was exceptionally sweet. Above all, the  adeptResponse helped my system to deliver the most dynamically lively and  wonderfully airy sound I've heard in my home. Top-end air is a quality that is  hard to quantify, and manifests itself to different degrees in different  components. With the adeptResponse, images "floated," in a way I've not  experienced before.

The results were—to use a hoary audiophile  cliché—revelatory.

//Eliot