New Audience Ultra High Resolution Adept Response

It would be nice if someone who has heard both the Power Cell 10SE and the Bybee Purifier could comment.

The question to inquire about is: what is the absolute reference in this case?
We, many of us, like "better bass" "more 3D" without any reference to "....cellos sound like this in the Muskervein..." or "drum overtones sound like this in Carnegie..."
In other words, we know what an actual instrument sounds like or else we simply like what instruments sound like with our preamp, amp, cords, line conditioners.
There are silly comparisons to other units' "stage width" or "depth." Nearly no one compares to instruments in their room, or halls. And almost no one even plays an actual instrument that he/she compares to on these sites.
You can have live or you can have faux live. If you KNOW "live" you don't compare to other units: you compare to LIFE.

It is an astonishing product. I have a what I thought was a great system - Verity audio Parsifal encore speakers, RM9 -SE Amp, CAT Ultimate preamp and the Jadi CD1. I had been enjoying music immensely and then I got the Adept Response. It took the system to a whole new level. I find it imposiible to listen to music whitout it. I live in NYC where the electricitity is notoriously bad so I don't know if it will have the same effect elsewhere.

The very latest version has the Teflon caps and a big copper ground plane. Many were spotted at the California Audio Show that was on recently in Emeryville.

Regards,

I own a Synergistic Powercell 10SE, and recently tried a scaled down version of the Bybee conditioner. This one had the Golden Goddess filters inside, with a Slipstream purifier in the noise circuit.

The 10SE is much better on source components. In fact, I have not heard the benefits of what the 10SE does for source components on any of the ten or so devices(conditioners), that I have used. On tubed equipment, I prefer neither of the two. The 10SE does not do much, and the Bybee dulled the upper and lower range, while making the midrange a little more warm sounding.

i prefer the Z-der Block, by Ridge Street Audio, on the tubed equipment, with a specialty power cord to the wall outlet.

For amps (SS), I plan to try the Audience conditioners, while leaving the !0SE on the source components, and the Synergistic Cable Cells on the interconnects.

The Bybee unit did work very good on video screens and the computer, but very expensive for the small upgrade.