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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Hotbird, when you stated that you can use more then "one set", I'm assuming you mean more then one individual Acoustic Revive RR-77 at the same time. Do I have that right? I read somewhere that if you use more then one at a time, they can pulse at different times and that negates the sonic benefits of the device. Please share more information regarding this if you know more details.
I have had more fun the last few days taking this little amazing box to other locations to see the response of other listeners to the sonic differences, that so far our only totally postive, and everyone just laughs and can hear the differences instantly.

I went and visited a highly regarded Audio store in the Chi-town area were the owner is a dear friend. Then I took it over to a fellow audiophile with a great sounding system. In the store's reference system what I reported in my review was heard by the owner, great improvement in 3D imaging, greater location in the sound stage, voices became more natural, etc. At the home of my audiophile friend the same results, he could not just stop laughing. He came up with a great expression for what it did to vocals in his system, they just become more "human" and real sounding. All this could be a placebo or hawthrone effect, but I don't think so, it really does significantly effect the sonics of the systems that is put in the same room as. Great fun!
Hi Joe, I still use mine everyday and still believe it does everything stated in my review. Since I have had it,it it never is turned off, so that should answer your question regarding reliablity.

Remember, its suppose to be at least five feet off the floor, behind your speakers and in the middle of them, however my RR-77 is about four feet to the left of my left speaker and still works like a charm. I don't know if 15 feet away in the corner would work, but you could always return it Music Direct during your 30 day audition period.