anapetaudio - Power Conditioner Reviews



	"Across the entire line the build-quality is nothing short of exemplary" Reviewed in Issues 162, 179, 186, 236 Read Full Award " If you need power conditioning, then this is the best I’ve heard." Jack Roberts -- January '13 Read Full Review The sound of the aR6-TS was, in a word, stunning. Eyes bulged. Ears stretched out and snapped back. This wolf whistled. My mouth drooled. I wore my Depends. I wondered where the heck all this new information was coming from. Doug Blackburn -- Jan '12 Read Full Review		"Like TAS editor Robert Harley once said to me “You need a power conditioner.” I have one now. It’s the Audience aR6-TSS. With all my components plugged into the Audience conditioner, violins were unfailingly silkier, voices and instruments emerged from a blacker sonic background with more nuance and dimension to them, soundstaging was grander, and imaging and spatial cues startling. The aR6-TSS contributed a remarkable refinement and brought real precision to my system." Garrett Hongo -- September '13 Issue 235 Read Full Review

	"Across the entire line the build-quality is nothing short of exemplary" Reviewed in Issues 162, 179, 186, 236 Read Full Award " As I continued listening, it became clear that the Audience’s levels of midrange and lower-treble resolution were standard-setting -- again, that vanishing noise floor paid big dividends in the listening chair. The upper midrange and lower treble were nuanced, finely shaded, and highly resolved, presenting harmonic decay and inner detail that I’d never heard with any other conditioner. The decays of the piano’s upper registers, previously obscured by a fine layer of glare, were more fully illuminated and harmonically developed with the aR12-TS in the system. I felt I could see into the lowest, previously obscured levels of harmonics of pianos, guitars, cymbals, and even voices. Piano lovers will love what the Audience does. " Ryan Coleman -- Mar '12 Read Full Review "And, in addition to what eliminating grunge does for the background, the improvements in dynamics, timbre, the soundstage and imaging are not subtle. " Nicholas Bedworth -- Mar 12 Read Full Review (PDF, 661k)		"Bottom line: The aR12-TS is the best power conditioner I’ve heard." Brian Damkroger -- Jan 12 Read Full Review "While it affords an convincingly audible advance over the landmark aR12-T, the degree of that improvement is, to my ears, nearly as incremental an advance on the T's performance as the T iteration improved upon the original aR12." Greg Weaver -- Oct 11 Read Full Review "I said in my aR12-T review that in my experience, this degree of overall system improvement simply cannot be achieved with ANY other individual investment, regardless of the dollar amount of the investment, and that claim is even more true with the aR12-TS." Greg Weaver -- Jan 12 Read Full Review


	"...calling the adeptResponse an accessory may be misplaced, as it is really a world class component in and of itself.” Andre Mark -- Jan '11 Read Full Review Positive Feedback Online's Writers' Choice Awards - for 2008 "Audience Adept Response aR6 should be more than satisfying to any stereo music lover. I can only highly recommend it to anyone who is pursuing the high end reproduction system. $2,800 is a lot of money. But when you're building the high end system you don't want to save with quality power handling. It's a building block of high quality playback system." Matej Isak -- April 08 Read Full Review The 4th Annual Positive Feedback Online's Writers' Choice Awards for 2007 Positive Feedback Issue 34, Awards Page Two Bob Neill -- Nov/Dec 07 Award		“I am now hearing deeper, and with greater definition and detail into the music. Most importantly, that slight metallic sound I had in my system before placing the aR6 in my rig is now gone. Both micro and macro dynamics improved along with soundstaging which is now larger. Soundstaging has become more three dimensional on all planes of the musical stage. Images that sounded slightly opaque and recessed are now more pronounced and brought to the forefront and with greater clarity.” Jeff Parks –- March 08 Read Full Review "The improvement in audio quality the aR6 produces is significant and easily audible -- it gives music an exciting character that’s habit-forming.” "Every voice, every instrument had an aura of excitement I don’t hear from other power-conditioning products. Dynamic prowess and harmonic richness were enhanced, and there was something happening with the timing as well." “The degree of improvement is on a level that sends dedicated audiophiles into hours of debate and comparisons in their quest to elevate the performance of their systems to new heights. If the aR6 represents your sonic direction and price point, you can’t do better.” Doug Blackburn -- Nov 07 Print Version "...these two units beat the crap out of any other power conditioners I've had in my system." Bill Gaw -- Nov 07 Read Full Review

	"We love it because it sounds like you have just upgraded every component in the signal chain, making voices more articulate and natural. As we said back in issue 69, "the Audience adeptResponse aR8 makes a big, important difference to the sound, every bit in line with three grand upgrades to electronics further up the food chain." In other words, we like it!"		"No product is perfect, but the aR8 gets damn close. It’s strange; if a change this large is laid at the door of a CD player, preamp or power amp, few quibble. Even saying changing the interconnect cables produces this big a difference might be accepted with scant question, but to attribute these sort of improvements to a power product is always viewed quizzically. The fact remains that the Audience adeptResponse aR8 makes a big, important difference to the sound, every bit in line with three grand upgrades to electronics further up the food chain. So, set aside your preconceptions and prejudices and listen." Alan Sircom – Issue 69 Dec 09 Read Full Review

	"Across the entire line the build-quality is nothing short of exemplary" Reviewed in Issues 162, 179, 186, 236 Read Full Award "This is a remarkable product. And, in my experience, audibly superior to every other "conditioner" I have tried out (and given the peculiarities of the power network in New York, I have tried more than a few over the years). It is, to use a word from the earliest days of the hi-fi delity movement, simply much more transparent than the competition. And Audience lets you hear more ambient information, more definition and articulation of the musical images, and all that with what sounds like a reduction on those hard-to-describe distortions that ride atop a musical (or electrical, one supposes) signal. More to come." Harry Pearson -- July 08 Print Version "I've used a wide variety of power-conditioning systems over the years, but none has ever produced the type or magnitude of benefits I got with the adept response." Brian Damkroger -- Recommeneded -- Apr 07 Print Version "This expensive but extremely effective 12-outlet conditioner delivered significant improvements in bass definition and depth, overall resolution, and soundstage depth. Build-quality is exemplary." Robert Harley -- Editors Choice Awards -- Oct 06 "The Adept Response made a phenomenal difference in my system. Fundamentally, it improved the clarity of recordings by eliminating a previously undetected lack of definition, without introducing any brightness or most importantly any coloration. That is worth repeating. I did not hear any coloration from the Adept Response or any obscuring of the rhythm of the music. The Adept Response just made every recording I listened to more natural and in turn more musically engaging." Max Shepherd -- Jun 06 Print Version "I can say with certainty the Adept Response is among the elite of AC conditioners, and if you’ve not tried one, or haven’t had much success with other brands, then you need to give Audience a call." Clement Perry -- Aug 06 Read Full Review "King Of The Passives - If you are seeking the ultimate in passive power conditioning performance, especially for the reproduction of high-end caliber audio, the AdeptResponse is as good as it gets." Doug Blackburn -- Aug 06 Print Version "Conclusion. The Audience Adept Response line conditioner is a beautiful machine to gaze upon and use. Unlike so many other line conditioners with substantial prices, the Audience does give one reason to feel that the hardware involved justifies the price charged." Martin DeWulf -- #170 -- Mar 06 "Uniformly, those rooms with the Adept Response were some of the best sounding at the show." CES Show Report -- #169 -- Jan 06 "In carefully considering the architectural and equipment specifications of my new studio/demonstration room, I chose only the best. Audience Cables and their Power Conditioner deliver the kind of reproduction quality that our high resolution recordings demand." Mark Waldrep, Ph.D. -- Aug 06 Equipment List "Treble with the Adept Response is superb, coaxing some of the finest highs I've heard out of a number of components. But, it's the clean dynamic action that I've obtained with the Adept Response that to my way of thinking sets it apart from other AC line conditioning devices that I've used in the past." Martin DeWulf -- #166 -- Aug 05		"...these two units beat the crap out of any other power conditioners I've had in my system." Bill Gaw -- Nov 07 Read Full Review "Because BluePort's live recording work is subject to the caprice of strange power sources in a constantly changing variety of venues all across the United States, the challenge of filtering and stabilizing current flow to multiple pieces of high-end recording devices is staggering. I've used nearly a dozen different "power conditioners" over the last ten years or so, each promising spectacular sonic results. The only one that delivers sound with utter purity, clarity, and freedom from extraneous electrical grunge and gremlins is the AUDIENCE "adeptResponse" . . . a product, in my overburdened world of recording work, I regard to be on the top rung of contemporary power conditioning excellence. When I have a project that must have all of its elements as technically perfect as possible the adeptResponse twelve outlet box sits at the outset of my "on location" recording rig. I seldom build a work station without it." JIM MEROD, BluePort Jazz High-Definition Recording Engineer "I doff my cap to the generous audio enhancement that adeptResponse subtlety brings my musical universe." Jim Merod -- Mar 07 Read Full Review “This high-end conditioner filters the incoming AC as well as isolates each of the 12 hospital-grade AC outlets from each other. The result is a cleaner overall sound, better bass definition, a more spacious presentation, and greater ease and involvement. Expensive, but worth it." Robert Harley -- Editors Choice Awards -- Dec 06 "If you have already dialed-in your amps and source components, and are looking for one final piece that will yet again leap-frog your system to a new level...try the Adept Response." Sherlock -- Oct 06 Read Full Review "List an attribute you would expect to have from your power conditioner, and this one actually delivers." Greg Weaver -- Writers Choice Awards -- 05 Print Version "The Audience adeptResponse is perfect in every way. With its gorgeous silver cabinet, it gets a ‘10' for looks. With enough outlets to power even the largest of systems, it gets a ‘10' for practicality. And lastly, with its ability to improve the sound of every piece of gear that I plugged into it, it gets a ‘10' for functionality." Fown-Ming Tien -- Writers Choice Awards -- 05 "I have a fair amount of experience with high-performance AC power conditioners, but the Adept Response took me by surprise. Comparing my system's sound with the components plugged into the Adept Response and straight into the wall, I heard a wide range of obvious, musically significant improvements." Robert Harley -- Sep/Oct 05 Print Version "At $3800, the Audience adeptResponse is not inexpensive, but given its ability to improve the sound of everything connected to it, I feel that it is worth every penny. Audio gear is always about compromise. The Audience adeptResponse is the first and only component I have experienced that represents zero compromise." Fown-Ming Tien -- Nov 05 Read Full Review "Greater bass clarity, an increase in overall resolution and detail while improving the organic nature of instrumental texture left no doubt that the Audience Adept Response would remain a permanent fixture in my system." Greg Petan -- Editors Choice Awards -- Jun 05 Print Version