Recently I installed Auva 50 footers under my speakers. Auva's are products from Stack Audio in UK and only sold dealer direct online. I installed these after a personal recommendation from an audio friend whose recommendations are always spot on. The Stack audio website is full of information on what the products supposedly do, along with numerous reviews and customer comments. Reviews and comments are always on the positive side, otherwise they would not be on the site. The product information is extensive. But then it is about selling a product. They do come with a 30-day money back, so it is a safe purchase.
Once installed I did a slight speaker positioning adjustment, and I started listening.
It did not take too long a time to tell that something was vastly different in the music. And the vast difference is that the Auva's seemed to remove the electronic signature of the audio system. The music came alive and brought a "You are there" sound and feel to the music. This was across the board with every disc that I have played, no exceptions. I might add that this is especially so with acoustic instruments and all human voices. Of course, the musicians are not there in the room with you quite obviously. But if you close your eyes to remove visual stimuli, the music does sound like the real natural sound of musical instruments and human voices, with nothing really added. I listen to classical and jazz, with some folk music at times. I tend to not listen to electronic popular music very much at all.
In reading the recent ISO Acoustics thread there were 2 posts about the Auva's, posts #48 & 50. The poster in #50 was quite positive about them.
I do admit to being skeptical about these at first. Highly praised tweaky things that I have tried in the long ago past, just did nothing for me like they supposedly did for others. But my audio friend's personal recommendation did sway me to make the purchase, and that is really the only reason I bought these. I'm glad I did!
The Auva's are the real deal! They are highly recommended. I have found them to be the biggest sound improvement that I have ever made in all my many years of audio listening.
My speakers are in the pic below. They are DIY, designed in 2003 by the late Rick Craig of Selah Audio, and remade in 2018. They are simple DIY speakers nothing too fancy. They are a 2 1/2-way design with Seas W18E and Hiquphon OW,1. They are reasonably similar to Troel's CNO25, though my design predate Troel's by a long time. The speakers are driven by a Starkrimson Ultra amplifier. All music is sacd, DSD128 files, DSD256 files, or DSD256 converted from pcm by my Marantz SA KI-Ruby player.
Once installed I did a slight speaker positioning adjustment, and I started listening.
It did not take too long a time to tell that something was vastly different in the music. And the vast difference is that the Auva's seemed to remove the electronic signature of the audio system. The music came alive and brought a "You are there" sound and feel to the music. This was across the board with every disc that I have played, no exceptions. I might add that this is especially so with acoustic instruments and all human voices. Of course, the musicians are not there in the room with you quite obviously. But if you close your eyes to remove visual stimuli, the music does sound like the real natural sound of musical instruments and human voices, with nothing really added. I listen to classical and jazz, with some folk music at times. I tend to not listen to electronic popular music very much at all.
In reading the recent ISO Acoustics thread there were 2 posts about the Auva's, posts #48 & 50. The poster in #50 was quite positive about them.
I do admit to being skeptical about these at first. Highly praised tweaky things that I have tried in the long ago past, just did nothing for me like they supposedly did for others. But my audio friend's personal recommendation did sway me to make the purchase, and that is really the only reason I bought these. I'm glad I did!
The Auva's are the real deal! They are highly recommended. I have found them to be the biggest sound improvement that I have ever made in all my many years of audio listening.
My speakers are in the pic below. They are DIY, designed in 2003 by the late Rick Craig of Selah Audio, and remade in 2018. They are simple DIY speakers nothing too fancy. They are a 2 1/2-way design with Seas W18E and Hiquphon OW,1. They are reasonably similar to Troel's CNO25, though my design predate Troel's by a long time. The speakers are driven by a Starkrimson Ultra amplifier. All music is sacd, DSD128 files, DSD256 files, or DSD256 converted from pcm by my Marantz SA KI-Ruby player.
