Is There Some Problem With Shunyata's Everest Power Conditioner

@moto_man 

I've wondered the same as I signed up on HiFiShark a few months ago to be notified when one becomes available for sale.  I have received a LOT of emails on these.  I haven't tried one but did trial an open-box Eiger from Music Direct.  It made an immediate improvement in my system.  I ended up going with a used Hydra Triton V1 for $1300.  I didn't have it at the same time as the Eiger but it also made an immediate improvement...but not quite on the same degree as the Eiger.  It seems like around $6000-6500 has been a good price lately so if you can afford that and the PC, go for it!  Clearly you can resell it if you are not impressed : )

I have an Everest and it was a major improvement in sound over the Triton V1 I had prior. I think it’s worth the cost especially buying used. 

Following up on fastfreight's post, Shunyata is one of the few power conditioner manufacturers that have patents which publicly disclose aspects of their technology.  In particular, their two primary power conditioning technologies implemented in the Everest (and also the 6 outlet Denali, but not the two outlet version) are referred to as QR/BB and NIC (noise isolation chamber).

If you want to read about them and debate their technical validity, see below (just delete spaces):

QR/BB - https :// patents .google.com/patent/US10031536B2

NIC - https ://patents .google.com/patent/US8658892B2

Re: the number of units for sale, there are a number of possible explanations.  Quite a few times I have seen this happen when a new and improved product is coming out at some point and those "in the know" are looking to dump their units early (most recently to my recollection, this happened with MSB Select DACs right before the public announcement for the Cadence) so - an Everest v2 is on the horizon?  It also could be, as others have noted above, power conditioning tends to be very system dependent / controversial. 

All I will say about the Everest in particular is that it has some credibility in the industry, and in my experience, absolutely smokes the Audioquest 7000, which is commonly listed as its primary competition in terms of price / target application.

I have a Denali 6000S V.2 with an Alpha V.2 XC to the wall. It's an outstanding piece of gear.  

As far as a lot of used Everests' who knows, could be there's something better that the Uber wealthy think is better for twice the price. 

So after cogitating about it and reading everyone's input, and most important, finding a very nice deal on a used one, and no Denali v2's for sale, I bit the bullet and bought a used Everest and Sigma v2  power cable with it, incoming on Saturday, so I will post my impressions after it is hooked up and settles in from its trip!  Hype or real . . . I'll soon see!