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In Reply to: RE: Anyone compare Acoustic Revive RD-3 to Walker Talisman? posted by Quint on September 05, 2007 at 08:11:39
The Talisman is quite superior to my RD-2, but my experience with Acoustic Revive equipment has been all quite favorable.
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Had the RD-2 and replaced it with the Talisman. The RD-3 will be arriving in the next few days, and I'll stack it up against the Talisman then. We shall see. The Talisman is definitely quicker and way more convenient, though.
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How much of the AR stuff have you tried? I have used the QR-8 with very great effect which belies their small size, but they can kill the sound also. The PSA-100 silk works quite well within equipment also, but I have little experience with it outside components. The RR-77 Ultra Low frequency Pulse Generator is very strange. You can hear a benefit but it is very difficult to put your finger on what it is doing. If you remove it, however, you will want it back right away. Finally, the RGC-24 Ground conditioner is also a strange device. It is the most subtle benefit of all the AR things I have tried and there is great variations in its effect depending on where it is.
without and with the RR-77 low frequency pulse generator. By congested, I mean having lots of instruments being played together at the same time, so that the music sounds very complex and bunched together. This type of music may be a complex orchestra piece or just a pop band with lots of singers and intrumentation. Without the RR-77 in place you will find that it's quite difficult to flow with such a complex piece of music as the music may sound compressed. But with RR-77, the music becomes lubricated and more organic, clearly putting more definition to all the players and improving the clarity and separation of each music component. This I think is the best test of RR-77. Give it a try ;-)
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I haven’t tried nearly as much as you—just the RIO-5 ionizer, RD-2, and ground conditioner. All of them yielded some nice benefits, the ground device, as you noticed, having the most subtle (though still audible) effect. I definitely want to try the RR-77. That’s next in line.
The webpage and its description of the unit does not tell you that what is important is the locations of the puck. I had it located under my linestage and connected to the line stage. Last night I relocated the puck to under the transformer of my Exemplar/Shanling sacd player. It is still grounded to the linestage, however. Now there is no question that its impact is enormous and that I need to get another for under the phono stage. My H-Cat P-12R line stage is the only component that is grounded to the ac ground.
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I tried locating it under various parts of my Oppo CD player, with little effect, until I placed it under the approximate location of the transformer. Then . . . bingo. It all snapped into place. As they say in real estate, “location, location, location.”
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