Acoustic Revive RTP-4 Ultimate Power Distributor

Selling Acoustic Revive RTP-4 Ultimate Power Distributor.

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Acoustic Revive Ultimate Power Distributors start out life as a solid block of 2017 Duralumin, which is then machined into a chassis. The blocks of Duralumin that the RTP-2 Ultimate is machined out of weighs 3kg (6.6 pounds), 4kg (8.8 pounds) for the RPT-4 Ultimate, and 6kg (13.2 pounds) for the RTP-6 ultimate. Acoustic Revive says it takes them about 5 hours to carve out one chassis and top cover for an RTP-2 Ultimate, and about 8 hours for an RTP-4 Ultimate or RTP-6 Ultimate. Each Ultimate chassis is machined to have a maximum thickness of 25mm (approximately one inch) for vibration control and to screen out noise, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio. Acoustic Revive says their one-piece machined chassis works far better at controlling vibration than competing designs, with the result being better sound quality and less distortion. After the chassis and top plate are machined they are sandblasted, and then finished with an attractive and durable finish called Snow White Alumite (chassis) and Black Alumite (top plate), which appears to be similar to an anodized finish.

The finished chassis of the Ultimate Power Distributors are then filled with a combination of green carborundum powder (the purest form), tourmaline powder, and natural quartz powder. Green carborundum is a man-made compound of silicon and carbon that Acoustic Revive says absorbs "electromagnetic wave noise which is produced from receptacles and internal wiring. Green carborundum is the only electromagnetic wave absorbent material which improves sound quality and S/N ratio." After treating the chassis interior with green carborundum, a mixture of tourmaline powder, quartz powder, and epoxy is applied to the interior of the chassis and left to cure for a week. Acoustic Revive the piezoelectric mineral tourmaline reduces static electricity through the release of negative ions, and that the quartz powder "releases far infrared rays, which has a surface activation effect. This leads to very realistic sound filled with a feeling of throbbing pulse."

After the epoxy in the chassis has cured, height-adjustable chrome-plated machined brass footers are attached to the bottom of the RPT's chassis. The footers are fitted with a pad of high-tech vibration control material (developed by professor Masao Sumita at the Tokyo Institute of Technology) that eliminates vibration by converting vibrational energy to heat energy.

The receptacles in the RTP-2, 4 and 6 Ultimate are specially modified Oyaide R-1 receptacles. Oyaide R-1 receptacles are an ultra high-performance receptacle whose electrode material is made of highly conductive beryllium copper, which is designed to reduce vibration at contact points, with no loss of signal transmission. The R-1 is plated with a combination of platinum and palladium. Acoustic Revive modifies the Oyaide R-1 receptacles by applying thick silver and rhodium plating, and then cryogenically treating them at minus 196ºC to increase their conductivity. The housing of the R-1 is made of machined 30% glass filled polybutylene terephthalate (PTB).

Like the Oyaide R-1, Acoustic Revive has also applied thick silver and rhodium plating, and cryogenically treated, the conductive components of the power cord connectors. The interior wiring of the RPT is an annealed oval-shaped PCOCC-A (Pure Copper by Ohno Continuous Casting) single crystal copper with greater than 8Ns purity. Acoustic Revive chose to use the PCOCC-A wire because they thought that it provided much more natural sound quality than any of the round, rectangular, or flat shaped conductors they had tried.

First owner. As new condition.

Used in dedicated smoke, animal, and kid free listening room.

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