"The 6moons Blue Moon Award is
bestowed only on components or
music releases of rare excellence.
For ''Outstanding Price/Performance Ratio" in the optical
disc resolution enhancement category."
Blue Moon Award -- Aug 04
"Now for the $64,000 question: Is the new Illuminator
better than the original? You better believe it. Whether classical,
pop or jazz, every disc I applied the AI treatment to displayed
easily audible improvements. The discs treated with the
new AI displayed greater overall resolution, quieter backgrounds,
smoother, less brittle highs and most significantly, an overriding
sense of relaxed ease with a more natural flow to music playback.
Less effort was required to relax into music or to follow
individual strands, be it a rock, symphonic or small-scale
chamber recording."
Paul Candy -- Aug 04
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"I consider the Illuminator to be an absolutely indispensable
tweak that really does enhance the sound of most CDs far beyond
its very modest price. The benefits on the Illuminator on
LDs and DVDs is simply extraordinary, easily as good as upgrading
to a better model player."
David -- Oct 99
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"Using the 3 "C"
criteria - I found out that dynamic contrast, temporal contrast
and tonal contrast are all improved. Low level sounds that
are not heard before (like small bells, subtle triangle strikes,
etc) are now easily audible despite being in the background
of much louder signals."
Hyperion -- Nov 99
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"The Auric Illuminator Optical Disk Resolution Enhancement
is unique in our experience for the sheer magnitude of the
improvement and for the absence of negative trade-offs. The
background “grunge” or noise level is greatly
decreased, along with a drastic improvement in resolution
and clarity without any edginess. Highly recommended."
David Magnan
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"No other CD treatment I've tested comes close to the
Auric Illuminator."
Lucio Cadeddu
-- TNT-Audio.com -- Jun 00
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"When we as audiophile are willing to spend hundreds,
if not thousand of dollars to improve our rigs by what many
times translates into a miniscule progress toward the end
goal of audio nirvana, the Auric Illuminator is a rockin
bargain! No audiophiles should be without a kit."
Jeff Parks -- Writers Choice Awards -- Dec
04
Print Version
"I have tried the Auric Illuminator on about a dozen
other CDs so far, and the improvement is instantly obvious.
You don't have to strain to hear it. I was especially surprised
at the improvement in the bass, but I suppose it is due to
an overall improvement in dynamics, and the bass just improves
to a level equal to that of the other ranges. By the way,
Auric Illuminator still works wonders on DVDs. After viewing
a DVD untreated, I used the Auric Illuminator and watched
again. Not only was the audio clearer and more focused, but
the video was positively glorious. All the colors were saturated
and stood out beautifully. Highly recommended."
Ed Morawski -- Nov 04
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"If you only have $39.95 to spend but want a kick in
the pants that offers images and sound as significant as a
DVD-player upgrade, Audience's Auric Illuminator should be
one of the first things you think about. If you already have
a top-flight DVD player and other goodies, the Auric Illuminator
will make them even better. The bottom line: I’m applying
the Auric Illuminator system to all my favorite and reference
CDs and DVDs, and every new disc that comes in is going to
get treated too. When you can spend this little and get this
much, it’s like, "Duh?!"
Doug Blackburn -- Mar 00
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"The Auric Illuminator from speaker manufacturer, Audience,
is a modest looking set of common objects: two plastic bottles
with a non-toxic disc cleaning gel; cloths to clean the discs;
and a black felt marker with kick-a-poo magic light absorption
edging to be applied to your discs. Ordinary looking stuff.
Extraordinary results."
Jim Merod -- Sep 00
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"The Auric Illuminator
is a benchmark optical disc playback resolution enhancement.
It is "jaw dropping" effective and is appropriately
named. It improved all aspects of soundstaging with every
CD I treated and "illuminated" every instrument
in a smooth and focused manner. It removes most of the clouding
and smear from older recorded CDs and brings added life, snap
and focus to newer CD recordings. It unveils the true timing,
depth, and tonal qualities that these recordings were meant
to display in their original production or at least brings
one damn closer to it."
Jim Dowd -- Jan 00
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