Shunyata Research Triton V1

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The Absolute Sound 2011 "Product of the Year" and 2012 "Golden Ear" Award Winner 

Every single element within the Triton
has been tested, measured and carefully auditioned to ensure the
highest possible level of performance. Substantially more efficient at
delivering power than previous designs, Shunyata has eliminated every power bottleneck, every impedance altering connection, every phase shifting part and created a new benchmark for power conditioning to which the rest of the market will be held.

"The
improvements in transparency, spatiality,
and resolution of low-level detail
were obvious, as were the greater grace
and cleanness (but not “filteriness”) of
the transients. Most ridiculous, though,
was that it all sounded louder."

– Michael Fremer, Stereophile

"Rather than skewing tonal balance or altering one's
sense of leading-edge attack to give the impression of enhanced clarity,
the Triton seemingly just reduces signal-obscuring noise, leaving you
with a cleaner, less edgy, and more lifelike presentation."

– The Absolute Sound, Golden Ear Award

Not a company to release new models without substantial performance improvements, the Triton is perhaps the finest example of Shunyata's dedication to the "less is more" philosophy. A complete reworking from the ground up, only a few components from previous generation products have been retained. Triton receives
an entirely new active filter design, a new and much more powerful
passive filter, an extremely efficient buss structure, new internal
wiring, new chassis, new feet, even new fasteners and screws. The only
parts that were retained are the two parts to which no further
improvement was necessary; the Carling breaker and the SR-Z1 outlets. Like all Shunyata products, the Triton is 100% Music Direct guaranteed. But we're not worried about getting it back. You'll never it out of your system!

Cold out of the box, the Triton offers stunning performance; deep soundstaging with excellent resolution, tonal balance is rich and greatly textured, with a superbly smooth character.
The level of coherency is absolutely breathtaking, every instrument and
every voice sounds complete and fleshed out, no spectrum is spotlit,
the music flows and yet each individual element is easily discerned. The
biggest shock comes after about an hour of listening, when the first
glimmers of what the Triton is capable of begins to finally appear.
From one recording to the next, dynamic range expands dramatically, the
walls of the hall begins to move backward and upward and the
physicality of the performers takes on a whole new dimension. For the next two weeks, as all the elements in the Triton begin
to break-in, almost daily improvements in soundstaging, macro and micro
dynamics, tonal balance and overall resolution are revealed. A fully burned-in Triton is an extremely addictive sonic experience;
every recording sounds fresh and new, the beginning of every song a
heart pounding event and the end of every song a sorrowful affair. For
those contemplating using a Triton in a home theater, video through the Triton is absolutely stunning! This level of improvement of both audio and video with a single component is a veritable double-play!

History 

For over a decade, Shunyata conditioners have graced the world's best
systems, with substantial and unabashed acclaim from critics, industry
professionals and music lovers. Both Talos and Triton deliver 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. This new batch of power conditioners takes this
unparalleled legacy to an entirely new level.

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 previoiusly 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.

Power Cable Not Included


All Shunyata Power Conditioners and Strips require a 20Amp cable, which
is not included with this component. Shunyata does not include a power
cable with their products because they believe that so called "stock"
cables greatly impair the performance of their units and that including
one would be the same as endorsing its use.