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.
