SnubWay Question Thread

@ozzy check out the thread on Decware’s forum for several + comments. Kamran wrote and extensive review.   I think results may be dependent on how good of conditioning/high frequency scrubbing you already have set up.  I am not using one of the expensive big boy conditioners like your AQ.  I do have several conditioning tweaks in place.  As for the plug I am using a 3 to 1 outlet splitter installed at the duplex wall shared with a Puron and my ground box so its size doesn’t impact me.  

Thanks, tksteingraber, I value your opinion.

But I’m going to pass on this product...

ozzy

@ozzy 

Received my Snubway yesterday and listened last night.

After an hour and a half of listening without Snubway I plugged it in and listened for about 3 hours repeating a lot of the same recordings. This is only 1st impressions obviously, and with that said the opinion of the What's Best Forum member you quoted is quite different from my session. I do agree that connectivity is somewhat limited especially if you have several plug-in devices pre-existing. I'm not clear at this point if dynamics are increased as I have a very strong dynamic presence in my system and didn't focus in that area as well as if there is an increase in perceived volume.

What I did notice was an increased purity of treble tone, along with extended decay. This affect also was throughout the midrange with increased resolution of very fine detail. Don't really want to comment on bass reproduction because again at this early junction my serious attention was elsewhere, and secondly, I was listening to different tubes than my preferred for best bass definition. In general I didn't have any concerns with the full musical experience.

Overall the music last night was musical, and very involving.

   LP

Should be getting a SnubWay in about a week or so. Will be using it in my EQUI=CORE 600 [which supports a TrippLite w/three switching power supplies plugged into it: USB Disruptor (w/stock), Wyred4Sound Recovery (w/iFi iPowerX) and Hagerman TUBA (w/iFi Ipower Elite)].

Am very happy with the EQUI=CORE. The SunbWay comes with Mark Shifter’s recommendation, so I am looking forward to hearing its [further] effect(s)/enhancement(s).

Have also "re-footed" all my components with Synergistic Reseach MiG and MiG 3.0(s)--which have also charted signal improvements.  

I received the Snubway today and have been listening to it, in and out of my system, for several hours. Even though it’s been less than the 10-12 hours of break-in suggested by Mark, I wanted to give my initial impressions as a card carrying tweak skeptic ... this thing is the real deal, folks. Period. End of story.

The first revelation was astonishment at how much noise and hash I have on my lines. Holy smokes! There is most definitely a palpable lowering of the noise floor here and, with that, an increase in dimensionality (front to back), width of soundstage, and clarity. Micro-details become manifest to the point where what was formerly a hint of a triangle is now heard fully. Also, by lowering the noise floor so dramatically, it has become necessary to lower the volume from my standard setting by approximately 3 dB.

To me, all of that is a substantial improvement. Of course, I am building in a certain allowance for the placebo effect, but even with that factored in, the Snubway plainly works, and it does so very well. In fact, I have ordered a second one to plug into the Zerosurge to which my subwoofer is connected. Again, as a tweak skeptic, I typically am wary of "magic in a box" items. However, after having read the online posts by the Snubway’s inventor, who displays its inner workings for all to see and explains in detail how it works (without using a bunch of unintelligible gobbledygook), I’m confident that this product is legit. Certainly, I cannot ignore what my ears are telling me.

There’s a 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee on the Snubway, including return postage. So, there’s absolutely no downside risk. You know, most of us take great pains to assemble our systems, but many ignore room treatments and power issues. I confess to have been remiss as to the latter, but what a great surprise and delight to have addressed the power issue in such a substantial and reasonably priced way. I’ll update this mini-review as may be necessary, and look forward to even more improvement as the Snubway breaks in and after the second one arrives.