April 2007 Stereophile review of the Audience Adept Response Power conditioner

Positive Feedback Online's Jim Merod BUY's the Adept Response conditioner

Go ahead, plug your amps in...
The Adept Response power conditioner from Audience is an amazing, non current limiting power conditioner like no other. The Adept Response will elevate the performance of your audio/video system to new heights like no other power conditioner.  In addition to superior power protection, the Adept Response delivers the ultimate audio/video experience. 

The Adept Response High Resolution Power Conditioner is a cutting edge design providing the best power conditioning possible without limiting dynamics. Since power must respond quickly and completely to the demands of program material we believe it is imperative that power conditioning components present a low impedance power path while providing wide bandwidth noise reduction. Conventional power conditioners simply cannot approach the bandwidth/impedance characteristics of the Adept Response while still offering effective noise filtration and high voltage surge protection. Exclusive Audience technology achieves far greater performance for all audio and video components. 

High Voltage Transient Suppresion
Of the power conditioning products on the market today few allow your playback system to attain full dynamic range or reproduce subtle dynamic contrasts accurately. The other culprit afflicting most power conditioning products is the ubiquitous MOV. (Metal Oxide Varistor) The MOV is a sacrificial device. This means it wears down over time until it fails completely. Its purpose is to clamp high voltage transients safely to ground instead of through your equipment. This would be fine if it didn’t break down and behave like the world's worst capacitor across your power line, storing energy and releasing it as performance robbing, time delayed distortion into your audio system. The effect is quite audible. For surge protection the Adept Response employs a non-wearing type high voltage transient suppression.

Adept Response uses only the finest conducting, filtering and transient suppression components. Even the power switch is exceptional, a very high quality magnetic circuit breaker. The advantage over thermal circuit breakers is that thermal breakers increase in resistance as power demand increases, causing heat dependent, resistive modulation of the incoming voltage.  This effectively reduces the power available to your equipment just when you need it most.  The design employed in the Adept Response provides for the most natural flow of music.

Low Impedance Power Path
The state of the art inductive components used in the Adept Response power conditioner add no significant series resistance. This maintains a low impedance power path to your playback system.  Also, the Adept Resp