Though the phrase "First, do no harm" is not actually part of the Hippocratic Oath, my listening has convinced me Audience has not only taken that charge to heart, but successfully implemented it in the adeptResponse aR2-T. It is only the second power product with which I've had extensive experience that introduces neither dynamic limitation nor nonlinear filtration artifacts -- each a significant achievement.
Peter Roth -- July '10 Read Full Review
"What these units do is as significant sonically as would be the substitution of s superior tubed electronic unit into your music system."
Harry Pearson -- February '10
The Absolute Sound Editors' Choice Award for 2010
“By contrast the Audience aR6-T's effect on my system's soundstage was as I described earlier: It has a very coherent, whole soundstage. It is a soundstage that is more lik you are at the event than the event is in your room, and as I said above what really made this soundstage so real is the way it handles the vertical dimension of the soundstage. Another difference is that the soundstage varies tremendously from recording to recording. That too can be a little disconcerting for some listeners. Still, I expect that through the Audience the system is just letting you hear the differences from recording to recording. The Audience also has an uncanny ability to let the system reveal the different size of different instruments in the soundstage.”
Jack Roberts -- July 09 Read Full Review
 Audience has kindly sent me various products to audition. Their Au24 "e" audio interconnects are VERY neutral. Pleasing sound that tells the HONEST TRUTH about what your components really sound like while still being tuneful and musical. The "e" powerChord adds dynamics and the Adept Response Teflon power conditioner is great at cancelling noise while bringing out authoritative dynamics hidden in your playback system. The power conditioner is really amazing. If I wasn’t already married, I’d marry it. Add the Au24 "e" speaker cable and you have a true neutral, musical presentation!
Steve Hoffman using all Au24 e and Audience powerChord e cables to remix Nat King Cole album to 3 channel SACD.
Steve Hoffman, recording engineer -- Dec 08
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“The insertion of the aR6T brought a new, dance-like, joyful aliveness to the recording, (a slice of what I had heard at Ozawa Hall), with a natural flow of notes into a wider and deeper soundstage than I ever thought possible in my system.”
“In my auditions of the aR6T, I kept coming back to that analogy of a sage usher who knows the recording venue he has worked in for many years and seats you in the best seat to hear every nuance of performance and recording venue that a given recording may offer. With the aR6T, everything on recordings is just more vital, more musically engaging and inviting. As such, it is indispensable.”
Nelson Brill -- September 09 Read Full Review
“There was a kind of transparency I hadn’t experienced outside a few concert halls, and not in any of my systems. I mean transparency here in it’s original sense (as first used by J. Gordon Holt). There was simply, a greater “invisibility” between you and the experience."
"Perhaps the greatest strength of the upgraded Audience power conditioner lies in the way it captures the human voice. You hear it as if anew, and with a harmonic integrity never quite fully there before."
"So, it was into this system that I plugged the new Audience aR12-T, replacing its predecessor, the just plain aR12. And the transformation of that system was transfixing. Maybe even "staggering" and "astonishing", according to the first impressions I jotted down. Rather than taking those words textbook literally, take them as a measure of my surprise at the transmogrification I was hearing."
The Absolute Sound
HP’s Workshop
A Breakthrough in Sonic Transparency
Harry Pearson --
Nov 08 Print Version
“But none of the +85 power-conditioning products I’ve reviewed can touch what the Audience adeptResponse aR6-T did for the sheer amount of listening enjoyment I got from my reference system. Nothing else has produced a soundstage as large, or a more convincing sensation of instruments and performers being physically present in my room. Details of texture, harmonics, and space were terrific. My expectations of performance are very high for this kind of money, and, offering only six outlets for $4600, the adeptResponse aR6-T is deep in no-compromise territory. But the Audience delivered.”
Doug Blackburn -- Sept 08 Read Full Review |
