AussieMick
500+ Head-Fier
What follows applies to both speaker listening AND listening via the Focal Stellia. If anything, the differences are MORE apparent via headphones.
Anyone here using the Revopods from Arya Audio in the UK? I read a review from Roy Gregory, whose likes and dislikes seem to have lined up with mine for two decades. He discussed them in the context of top flight WADAX gear and was positive enough for me to hunt some out.
https://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/arya_audio_revopod.htm
I got onto an Australian dealer and I’ve been listening to them in my system for a few weeks now. They’ve been under all of my electronics now and the effect has been uniform under each. I’ve had gains in clarity, ease and dynamics that were very welcome. However, the real WOW factor has been in the areas of stage depth and instrument texture and body. There’s much greater sense of front-to-back layering in all types of music, and there’s no wandering of instruments with level.
Instrument texture is much more vivid - finger and bow on string, drumstick on drum head, Esperanza Spalding’s electric bass more string and less unnecessary bloom, Sting’s voice more weathered. Across all genres it’s the same. And to go along with it is more body to everything. I think it’s what Darko calls “tonal mass”.
low level listening is more alive and “present”. Loud listening is more easeful and less draining. Detail is wonderful and inner separation consistently better.
I’ve recently been using Townshend Seismic Pods and Nordost Pulsar Points snd Sort Kones. The Revopods combine the open and airy ease of Townshend Pods with the precision imaging of the Nordost products. Nordost too etched and bright? Townshend to “soft”? Try the Revopods!
And finally, dynamics. There’s the slam from drum kits and the huge macro dynamics of brilliantly recorded orchestras. HUGE!
They’ve been under an Innuos Zen MK3, a Pass Labs INT-30A integrated amp and a Chord HMS/TT2 stack. Consistent results under each, and floating the entire system brings more and more of the same. I’ve ordered the threaded adapters so that I can try them under the Focal Kanta 2 speakers next. If it goes well I’ll be supporting my entire system, and eventually invest enough to float the power products as well.
For the QSA Yellow and above fuse users, my feeling is that the change is as fundamentally influential as putting a QSA Violet in the Zen MK3. Tbe QSA gave technically superior performance, and the Revopods give musically superior performance. Captivating.
Here is a full size set under the M Scaler and a Mini set between it and the TT2. The thread that comes with the Mini is the same as the stock feet of the Zen MK3, so it’s a direct replacement.
They’re pricey, but cheaper than the three Sort Kones I had under the streamer, and they perform more to my tastes. A box of 4 Minis is cheaper than 4 Townshend Pods, and is better for my DAC.
Anyone here using the Revopods from Arya Audio in the UK? I read a review from Roy Gregory, whose likes and dislikes seem to have lined up with mine for two decades. He discussed them in the context of top flight WADAX gear and was positive enough for me to hunt some out.
https://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/arya_audio_revopod.htm
I got onto an Australian dealer and I’ve been listening to them in my system for a few weeks now. They’ve been under all of my electronics now and the effect has been uniform under each. I’ve had gains in clarity, ease and dynamics that were very welcome. However, the real WOW factor has been in the areas of stage depth and instrument texture and body. There’s much greater sense of front-to-back layering in all types of music, and there’s no wandering of instruments with level.
Instrument texture is much more vivid - finger and bow on string, drumstick on drum head, Esperanza Spalding’s electric bass more string and less unnecessary bloom, Sting’s voice more weathered. Across all genres it’s the same. And to go along with it is more body to everything. I think it’s what Darko calls “tonal mass”.
low level listening is more alive and “present”. Loud listening is more easeful and less draining. Detail is wonderful and inner separation consistently better.
I’ve recently been using Townshend Seismic Pods and Nordost Pulsar Points snd Sort Kones. The Revopods combine the open and airy ease of Townshend Pods with the precision imaging of the Nordost products. Nordost too etched and bright? Townshend to “soft”? Try the Revopods!
And finally, dynamics. There’s the slam from drum kits and the huge macro dynamics of brilliantly recorded orchestras. HUGE!
They’ve been under an Innuos Zen MK3, a Pass Labs INT-30A integrated amp and a Chord HMS/TT2 stack. Consistent results under each, and floating the entire system brings more and more of the same. I’ve ordered the threaded adapters so that I can try them under the Focal Kanta 2 speakers next. If it goes well I’ll be supporting my entire system, and eventually invest enough to float the power products as well.
For the QSA Yellow and above fuse users, my feeling is that the change is as fundamentally influential as putting a QSA Violet in the Zen MK3. Tbe QSA gave technically superior performance, and the Revopods give musically superior performance. Captivating.
Here is a full size set under the M Scaler and a Mini set between it and the TT2. The thread that comes with the Mini is the same as the stock feet of the Zen MK3, so it’s a direct replacement.
They’re pricey, but cheaper than the three Sort Kones I had under the streamer, and they perform more to my tastes. A box of 4 Minis is cheaper than 4 Townshend Pods, and is better for my DAC.
