A Revolution in Power Conditioning
100% Designed and Built in the U.S.A. - The Talos is a Huge Step-Up in Performance from All Other Past Shunyata Designs!
Please call us for trade-in pricing on older Hydras and V-Rays
History
Shunyata's 6-Outlet Talos delivers a broad array of new technologies that are absolutely unprecedented in the audio industry. Although these concepts are groundbreaking and revolutionary, the underlying premises having been tested and refined over 10 years. In 1999, Shunyata unleashed the original Hydra, turning the entire audio world on its head and garnering dozens of accolades in the process. Since then, Shunyata’s Hydras have dominated the power conditioning market with an unbeatable combination of outstanding sound quality, staggering dynamic range and unprecedented transparency and tonal accuracy. The Talos takes this unparalleled legacy to an entirely new level. The Talos is 100% Music Direct guaranteed and we encourage you to audition one in your home, we are sure you'll have a hard time parting with it.
Caps & Coils
A typical power supply generates noise at various frequencies. A typical
power conditioner uses a combination of capacitors or inductors in an
array to attempt to minimize noise. This is like using a chainsaw for
brain surgery, a clumsy brute force approach which has damaging and
unintended side effects. Capacitors, all of them, regardless of type,
grade, material or date of manufacture have a resonant point. In other
words, at certain frequencies, the capacitor starts to vibrate or ring.
This can be heard in recordings with sharp pitch signatures, such as a
bell or a piano, where the capacitor ringing appears as a pinging echo
which follows the original event. Ringing can even change the timbre and
tone of the system. Some manufacturers use inductors (coils) or ferrite
elements to dull the resonance of the capacitors, but this further
complicates matters by masking the problem, rather than solving it.
Shunyata’s MPDA solution is more elegant and effective.
Multi-Phasic Differential Array (MPDA)
MPDA is an array of micro-filters, each element targets a very specific
noise component. Each element acts like a notch filter, eliminating very
specific frequencies of noise, without affecting the broad spectrum,
the technical term is “High Q, Narrow Bandwidth Filter”. Using Surface
Mount Technology, Shunyata is able to place 30 of these high-powered
elements onto a circuit board smaller than a stick of gum, virtually
eliminating noise and without interfering with the conditioner’s massive
current delivery. Most importantly, MPDA eliminates the use of
capacitors and inductors.
A Revolution in Power Conditioning
100% Designed and Built in the U.S.A. - The Talos is a Huge Step-Up in Performance from All Other Past Shunyata Designs!
Please call us for trade-in pricing on older Hydras and V-Rays
History
Shunyata's 6-Outlet Talos delivers a broad array of new technologies that are absolutely unprecedented in the audio industry. Although these concepts are groundbreaking and revolutionary, the underlying premises having been tested and refined over 10 years. In 1999, Shunyata unleashed the original Hydra, turning the entire audio world on its head and garnering dozens of accolades in the process. Since then, Shunyata’s Hydras have dominated the power conditioning market with an unbeatable combination of outstanding sound quality, staggering dynamic range and unprecedented transparency and tonal accuracy. The Talos takes this unparalleled legacy to an entirely new level. The Talos is 100% Music Direct guaranteed and we encourage you to audition one in your home, we are sure you'll have a hard time parting with it.
Caps & Coils
A typical power supply generates noise at various frequencies. A typical
power conditioner uses a combination of capacitors or inductors in an
array to attempt to minimize noise. This is like using a chainsaw for
brain surgery, a clumsy brute force approach which has damaging and
unintended side effects. Capacitors, all of them, regardless of type,
grade, material or date of manufacture have a resonant point. In other
words, at certain frequencies, the capacitor starts to vibrate or ring.
This can be heard in recordings with sharp pitch signatures, such as a
bell or a piano, where the capacitor ringing appears as a pinging echo
which follows the original event. Ringing can even change the timbre and
tone of the system. Some manufacturers use inductors (coils) or ferrite
elements to dull the resonance of the capacitors, but this further
complicates matters by masking the problem, rather than solving it.
Shunyata’s MPDA solution is more elegant and effective.
Multi-Phasic Differential Array (MPDA)
MPDA is an array of micro-filters, each element targets a very specific
noise component. Each element acts like a notch filter, eliminating very
specific frequencies of noise, without affecting the broad spectrum,
the technical term is “High Q, Narrow Bandwidth Filter”. Using Surface
Mount Technology, Shunyata is able to place 30 of these high-powered
elements onto a circuit board smaller than a stick of gum, virtually
eliminating noise and without interfering with the conditioner’s massive
current delivery. Most importantly, MPDA eliminates the use of
capacitors and inductors.
Noise Isolation Chambers (NIC)
The most visible and striking features inside the Triton are the NICs,
three massive cylindrical chambers bolted to the center of the chassis,
which deliver an enormous step forward in power-line noise elimination.
NICs filter out noise in the megahertz and gigahertz
range without slowing down AC current delivery. Made from pure copper, a
single wire enters and comes out of each tube, one each for hot,
neutral and ground, one wire per cylinder. Each tube is filled with
Shunyata’s patented ZrCa-2000 compound, a proprietary material whose unique molecular structure literally devours noise. Shunyata previously used this compound on both the Hydra 8 and the V-Ray, but the new NICs are vastly more powerful as they encapsulate each wire, ensuring ideal coverage and maximum contact area.
Zero Point Power Distribution System (ZP-PDS)
Shunyata has always taken their conductive metals seriously, carefully
auditioning and testing every conductive element in the chain to ensure
proper signal integrity and durability. Shunyata now uses exclusively
high-copper content brass alloy for the conductive chain; every screw,
buss bar, fastener, custom termination and end cap. Although other
metals might have higher conductivity, each requires some form of
electro-plating to keep it from oxidizing or wearing. Plating materials
like gold, silver and rhodium each have their own sound, coloring and
distorting the signal. Brass is durable, highly conductive and most
importantly doesn’t need to be plated for corrosion resistance,
eliminating potential sonic character changes. Using a single metal
through the entire buss system also has substantial electrical benefits,
greatly reducing resistance and lowering the impedance to negligible
levels, thus improving conductivity and allowing power to flow freely.
VTX Wire Geometry
Long known for ultra-complex wire geometries which measurably improve
conductivity and desirable characteristics, Shunyata has developed a new
geometry specifically for use inside this new series of conditioners
that greatly reduces the so-called “skin-effect”. Skin-effect is a
distortion caused by differing speeds of conductivity between the center
of the conductor (where the bass travels) and the outer part or skin of
the conductor where the midrange and treble travel. Skin-effect plagues
both stranded and solid core wire, causing smearing, timing and phase
errors, in some cases even changes in tonal balance. The ideal conductor
is a hollow tube, but this is wildly impractical in the real world, so
using DTCD analysis, Shunyata created a new type of wire geometry which
is a “virtual tube” greatly reducing skin effect and improving
conductivity.
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