Accessories
Audience Power Conditioners

aR12-T, $8000; aR6T, $4600; aR2-T, $4100

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These are the versions of Audience's superior power conditioner, all with the much more expensive and much more impressive Teflon capacitors. The numerical designation indicates the number of connections each unit accepts. Audience makes less expensive non-Teflon versions, which do sound better than most of the competition, but once you hear (or rather don't) the T-versions, you will have to have them. What these units do is as significant sonically as would be the substitution of s superior tubed electronic unit into your music system. We just inserted the aR2-T unit, deisnged to handle big power amplifiers (vide, the 300-watt McIntosh 2301), and found a great amplifier achieving state-of-the-art status.