I have an Everest and it was a major improvement in sound over the Triton V1 I had prior. I think it’s worth the cost especially buying used.
Is There Some Problem With Shunyata's Everest Power Conditioner
I have been looking for a Shunyata power conditioner, and was thinking of going all the way and picking up an Everest, which is not only stupidly expensive but is the predictable darling of all reviewers, who gush about how wonderful this product is. However, there are currently SIX Everests for sale on US Audiomart. For a transformative and expensive product with seemingly universal acclaim, the fact that there six Everests for sale at the same time makes me wonder if maybe it is not so amazing and transformative and people are having buyer's remorse after picking one up. Comments or insight?
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Following up on fastfreight's post, Shunyata is one of the few power conditioner manufacturers that have patents which publicly disclose aspects of their technology. In particular, their two primary power conditioning technologies implemented in the Everest (and also the 6 outlet Denali, but not the two outlet version) are referred to as QR/BB and NIC (noise isolation chamber). If you want to read about them and debate their technical validity, see below (just delete spaces): QR/BB - https :// patents .google.com/patent/US10031536B2 NIC - https ://patents .google.com/patent/US8658892B2 Re: the number of units for sale, there are a number of possible explanations. Quite a few times I have seen this happen when a new and improved product is coming out at some point and those "in the know" are looking to dump their units early (most recently to my recollection, this happened with MSB Select DACs right before the public announcement for the Cadence) so - an Everest v2 is on the horizon? It also could be, as others have noted above, power conditioning tends to be very system dependent / controversial. All I will say about the Everest in particular is that it has some credibility in the industry, and in my experience, absolutely smokes the Audioquest 7000, which is commonly listed as its primary competition in terms of price / target application. |
So after cogitating about it and reading everyone's input, and most important, finding a very nice deal on a used one, and no Denali v2's for sale, I bit the bullet and bought a used Everest and Sigma v2 power cable with it, incoming on Saturday, so I will post my impressions after it is hooked up and settles in from its trip! Hype or real . . . I'll soon see! |
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