IsoTek Aquarius Mains Power Conditioner
Available in black or silver
Since its launch in 2002 Isotek's now legendary award winning Mini-Sub has set the benchmark in power conditioning equipment.
But time marches on and the team at Isotek have come up with a replacement for the Mini-Sub.
The Isotek Aquarius uses the very latest design innovations with an amazingly low price tag considering its exceptional performance.
It's a step up the ladder from the GII Mini-Sub, the Isotek Aquarius now offers a full 16amps to its two high current outlets, allowing for unlimited transients thanks to the thermo-magnetic fusing and the 16A IEC C20 connectors.
The other four medium current outlets are now fused with a high quality bayonet fuse holder, which makes user replacement nice and easy.
Instantaneous protection (lightning strike / Electrical surge etc..) is an amazing 67,500 amps and with greatly improved independant filters used throughout, its perfomance is stunning.
The UK version of the Isotek Aquarius has 6 outlets - all UK square pin mains connectors, 2 of which are high current (16A) and 4 medium current (5A)
The four medium-current outlets now feature IsoTek’s Adaptive Gating technology – an auto-sensing filter stage that adapts to the current draw of the load, thus tailoring the filtering process to suit the component attached to each individual outlet. This proprietary technology first appeared in the high-end Nova and Sigmas power conditioners; Aquarius delivers it at a significantly lower price.
Also new for Aquarius is K.E.R.P. (Kirchoff’s Equal Path of Resistance), a technology specially developed for IsoTek’s latest EVO3 generation of power conditioners. This engenders a pure, symmetrical signal path throughout the unit, without interference from one socket to the next, thus helping to deliver a more coherent sound.
Further enhancements are made by an all-new choke design, incorporating improved magnetic material and enabling increased frequency bandwidth; the independent filter stages have also been improved throughout. Even the sturdy new aluminium case plays its part in raising performance levels, its massive ground plan allowing it to act like a Faraday cage when closed, thus providing further shielding from electromagnetic radiation (EMI).
It’s not just about sonic enhancement, however; Aquarius delivers greater protection from spikes and surges, too, with a massive 67,500 Amps of instantaneous and repeatable protection. The fact that it is repeatable is important: many mains filters have protection circuits that trip and need resetting manually. Or worse, they trip once and stay tripped, despite allowing the system to play, thus providing no protection at all, unbeknown to the end-user.
The effect that Aquarius has on a system’s sound, compared to the same system without conditioning, is unequivocal – just as it was with the GII Mini Sub. The noise floor drops and the sound gains greater focus, with reduced grain and improved clarity. Bass is tighter and better defined, treble gains space and ‘air’, and the overall musical performance appears more solid and dynamic, and hence more ‘real’.
What’s more, compare the Aquarius to the GII Mini Sub and it is clear that the gains are considerably greater with the new unit. The sound appears more dynamic, rising out of a quieter background, and the music connects with the listener more emphatically as a result. IsoTek has achieved its objective: Aquarius sets a new mains conditioning benchmark below £1,000.
“The original Mini Sub is the product that put IsoTek on the map,” said Keith Martin, IsoTek’s founder and Managing Director. “In may ways, it was also responsible for making mains conditioning a serious component of the UK hi-fi scene, introducing a legion of audio fans to the tremendous improvements that effective mains conditioning can bring to any hi-fi system. Replacing such a stalwart with a new model is a tremendous responsibility, but no one who tries Aquarius can be in any doubt that we have succeeded in improving on its award-winning predecessor. Unlike other performance-enhancing accessories – cables and the like – Aquarius will improve the sound of every component in your system, ensuring it’s the most cost-effective upgrade an audio lover is ever likely to make.”
Specifications
The following information relates only to the Aquarius. This is an original product and should not be confused with previous or ‘copy cat’ models.
Number of outlets: 6
Mains inlet : 16A Amp IEC C20
Mains voltage: 100 – 240VAC/50 – 60Hz
High current
(two outlets): 16 Amps
Medium current
(four outlets): 5 Amps
Maximum current: 16 Amps continuous
Total available power: (230V): 3680W
High (Circuit/Transient): 18400W
Medium (Circuit): 1380W
Dimensions: 444mm x 85mm x 305mm (WxHxD)
Weight (boxed): 9Kg
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