Review: Tritium Electronics AC Power Triphazer AC filter


Category: Accessories

I am compelled to write this review because I believe this is a product that results in instantaneous and dramatic benefits without any risk or effort, but it is offered by a company with practically no recognition in the audio community. The company is Tritium Electronics.

To realize the benefits of the AC Power Triphazer, this is what must be done: Turn off your component, remove the IEC power cord, insert Triphazer between component and power cord, turn component on and listen. That's it.

You will instantly recognize the difference. No careful analytical listening required. No second guessing about what you think you are hearing. No painstaking set-up or break-in procedures. You will notice greater presence of performers and instruments on the soundstage with spaces between them in much sharper contrast. Inner detail and subtle nuances in the music will be easier to recognize and follow. Bass will have better articulation and impact. The entire musical event will seem to emerge from your system with greater emphasis.

The nice thing about this product is that it does not replace anything currently in your system. It works with your present power cords and conditioners. It doesn't matter what your musical or equipment preferences are. I found it to be most dramatic when used with my cd player, but other components benefit as well.

If this product is so good, why haven't you heard about it? The only reason is the very small size of the company and it's struggles to get the word out about it's amazing products. If Tritium Electronics had the budget of a PS Audio, customers would busting down the doors in their rush to buy. In addition to the AC Power Triphazers, Tritium makes Triphazers for use with speakers and interconnects. The beneficial effects of these devices are perhaps even more profound, but it takes longer for them to break-in with the system.

As a way of compensating for its lack of recognition, Tritium offers a 90 day return privilege, but with the AC Triphazer, you will only need a few seconds to realize how good this thing is. If you have experimented and used components designed to improve power delivery, you already know that these devices can make a difference and are necessary to achieve higher levels of performance. But the wrong choices can be costly and detrimental. In the case of the Tritium Power Triphazer, the choice is a no-brainer.
Their website is www.triphazer.com

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First some engineering background:

1) The AC line is supposed to deliver a single-frequency sine wave (60 Hz in the US, 50 Hz in Europe). It is supposed to contain NO harmonics (unless you count the 60 Hz first harmonic). Any harmonics that are present are BAD - they occur because of waveform distortion and other forms of electronic interference with the power system.

2) The power supply in each piece of equipment then converts this AC into DC appropriate for the particular device. In the process removing ANY noise or harmonics present (as well as the primary frequency). Some power supplies do a better job of this than others.

3) A power conditioner helps the power supply do its job by preventing at least some of the noise in the line from reaching the power supply. If the power supply were really well designed then the power conditioner would be unnecessary - but this is the real world.

Anyone who PASSED their engineering courses knows this.

From this it is obvious that any claim of a device "replacing missing harmonics" in the power line is total nonsense.

As for their other product claims...... most of them are "engineering doubletalk" or worse. They have used the word "skew" in a new and creative fashion (while it can describe types of signal inaccuracies, usually involving videotape travel, they use it as the name of some new distortion that only they seem to recognize). Nobody I know with engineering background has any idea what "aligning the audio magnetic envelope" might mean - but it sure sounds cool. Same for a "20-50% improvement in sonics". Their "technical descriptions" are relatively pure nonsense.

Do some of their other products make the music sound better?

There have been many products in the past that added specific types of distortion to music to make it sound "better" to some people (remember the Aphex Aural Exciter).
Since there is no relaible way to remove distortion from a signal after the fact, this MUST be what their TriPhazer products do (if they do, indeed, do anything). If you like the way their gadgets make your music sounds, then you should probably buy them - just make sure that you really feel the change they make IS an improvement. Personally I prefer to AVOID distortion as much as possible so I have no interest in them.

It's even possible that some of their products do something useful..... but the technical descriptions on their Web site are the worst pseudo-scientific drivel I have seen in a while...
Elizabeth's posts hereabouts have always been polite and insightful. Her reviews and thoughts are such that one would be crazy not to pay attention.