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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teajay
Got 3 IPC Energizers coming and two SMusic boxes coming. Along with the 777 I hope they all work together like Snowdon and Putin!!

Gary,

So, what are your impressions of the RR-777 versus the IPC Energizers versus the SMusic boxes? What are SMusic boxes?

Chuck
I have an RR-777. At first I thought it didn't work. I was listening for more bass, detail, that sort of thing. Once I heard it, it became impossible to live without it. I leave it on all the time because the listening/living room feels better with it!

Its effect on my voice is obvious. Without it, my voice sounds drier and more inside me. With it, my voice is more liquid and fills the room more. I hear the same difference with my bamboo flute.

My 10 yr-old who cares nought for hifi, could hear it with her violin. She was mystified how flipping a switch on a little box, could change the sound of her playing. It was interesting to me to watch her try to describe what she heard, She has no vocabulary for sonic differences. She liked my "wetter," as a description of the sound with.
Interesting comments regarding the perception that the 7.83Hz Schumann frequency pulse generator affected one of the Audiogon member's voice (or, at least, he subjectively believed that to be the case).

I have this item, albeit a different brand, and have noticed that when it's turned on, my personal "staying power" is enhanced while both the sound and this author are soft and flabby when it's turned off.
I am using three RR-77 in my listening room and they are a must when I listen to music.
A fourth one is prmanently on in the room I'm working.
I'd like to test the RR-777 too