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Review: Acoustic Revive RR-77 Tweak

Category: Accessories

I consider myself a relatively sane and skeptical audiophile when it comes to devices that offer a higher level of performance with magical explanations of how they work. Well, I had read on Six Moons website a very postive review regarding the Acoustic Revive RR-77 room conditioner, yes room conditioner, but took it with a big grain of salt. Then my good friend and fellow GON member Ted Brady in a conversation tells me that he has not lost his mind, but the damn device worked wonders in his high end system. So, what the heck, it costs $400.00 and I can get one from Music Direct with a 30 day home audition and send it back if it does not work.

It's a very small box that you put behind your speakers at the height of five feet off the ground. It is a type of wave generater that puts into the room a subsonic frequency that either effects how you hear the system in the room or somehow effects the acoustic of the room it self. For alot more information regarding the theory regarding how it works you can go to Six Moons website for alot more details.

Well, I have no real idea how it produces the effects it does, but the damn thing works magic in the following areas:

1)A greater liquidity and oozyness in my system without a loss of PRAT or macrodynamics.

2)More dense images with greater air around each player in the soundstage.

3)A deeper/wider soundstage.

4)Everything sounds more relaxed and natural.

My girlfriend, who is a musician, heard it instantly when she walked in and asked me what did I do this time regarding a new piece of gear. So, I have no rational explanation how it works, but boy does it work in a significant postive way. So, if I have not lost my mind, I recommend you try one in your room. What the heck, you get a 30 day trial from Music Direct. Highly recommended!

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sgordon1
460 posts
 
Sabai, I would like to add "vibration isolation"
to your list. My Schumann unit is placed at the end of a piece of maple,
sitting on a shelf at the rear of the room, six feet high, extending into the room. The quality of the isolating device changes the sound.
My choice is Symposium Rollerblocks.

My unit, "Earthsafe Whole House" from Less EMF Inc.,
has two nice features. It has a ground cord to inject the signal
into the wiring of the house (their claim). And it has a dial
so you can adjust the output of the unit. I can coordinate it
with a Synergistic Research FEQ and a Kemp SR that
are in the front of the room.
sgordon1
460 posts
 
"Everything" makes a difference... right?

Try this one: play a cd (however you typically treat or don't
treat it before inserting in the machine). One track should do it.
Next, remove the cd and place it, label side up, on the Schumann Resonator, for five seconds, or longer, if you like.

Re-insert and play. Do you hear a difference?
sgordon1
460 posts
 
Shelf, stand, bracket attached to the wall...
In my experience, better sounding with nothing above
the unit and "into" the listening space... make sense?
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