I am cautioning you the product in question is mysterious and it comes from an unknown company but it really works. I discovered Tritium electronics, a small business concern on the west side of Milwaukee, about six months ago. The place had been recommended to me as a reliable place to have some tube electronics serviced and modified. The owner and I talked briefly about the minor surgery I wanted performed on my conrad-johnson preamp. Unexpectedly, the conversation turned to Tri-phazers. "Try what?" I asked. ...

Time Travel Made Easy :

With the Tri-phazers in place my system immediately projected greater depth of field than usual. Within minutes, I also perceived better articulation, that is the notes and the spaces between the notes were clearer. The effect was not one of detail at the expense of musical pleasure the illusion of a live performance had been greatly enhanced ... I listened longer than anticipated. The magnitude of improvement with the Tri-phazers... or(tri-phasers). was greater than achieved by replacing power cords and installing dedicated power lines to separate components.  Next I took the tri-phazers into the study where a more modest system resides (CD source, integrated amp and cone drivers in sealed boxes). This is a pleasant, if not terribly revealing ensemble. The addition of the tri-phazers didn't transform the study into Carnegie Hall, but the sonic Improvements were plainly audible and very consistent with what I had heard earlier. Lastly, I took the Tri-phazers to my office, where an even simpler system hangs out. Again, I noticed a superior Illusion of depth with cleaner spaces between noted and silence. ( silence between notes ) Cymbal splashes in particular became more realistic an achievement for the modest tweeter involved. I had become so impressed with the Tri-phazers that I began to doubt myself.
 

A question of Value..

A good report tries to determine whether a product works well enough to be competitive. How am I supposed to tell what a device Is worth when It has no competition.... considering the fact that nothing I'm aware of makes this kind of improvement and that you can place them anywhere in a system without discarding something else,  No such compromise exists with the tri-phazers, you put it in a system and the system sounds better the moment the device is in. This is the first unit I've heard and I think Martin agrees - that seems to improve any and all systems it is in regardless of other variables and factors normally attributed to cost and type. How much is that worth to you?
    In summary, Tritium Electronics has developed a black box that makes any system sound more lifelike and real. Years from now when your CD player has expired and your present speakers have been sold I predict that the Tri-phazers will still be with you.

MGD comments,

As Rich Indicated, upon his suggestion I received a pair of Tri-phazers from the manufacturer Tritium Electronics.
My initial skepticism was dispelled when I inserted them into a system using the Gallo Acoustic loudspeakers. As you may know the Gallo uses a new and revolutionary 360 degree in the round tweeter.
    The insertion of the Tri-phazer had indeed changed the system and very much for the better, First thing to catch my ear was an improvement in the way images inhabited the soundstage. l will call it a positive step toward naturalness.
    With the Tri-phazers in the system the Imaging became more precise and yet it imaged larger and more naturally it struck me as the kind of improvement in imaging that every audiophile would appreciate regardless of his preference. Players were in place not confined to some miniature spot between left and right instead they took a realistically sized space upon the stage and that's where they stayed extremely dense and very palpable. without doubt the tri-phaser maintains the kind of lmaging and staging that classical and jazz aficionados alike would love. The area of the performance was enhanced along all boundaries.

Tone quality:

With the density of images belng so lmproved could the tone quality be anything less than superb? I'd call It rich without being overly lush. Technically, what I think to be going on was a fuller retrieval of (harmonic envelope attached to each sound. Every sound reproduced seemed more complete. It's as if a sonic contaminant had been removed leaving more of the music to be revealed.
    The tri-phazers took an already exceptional system to greater levels of transparency perhaps more so than any other so called "tweak" used in the last five years. Now to put all of this in perspective. what strikes me as potentially groundbreaking about the tri-phazers is not how much they improve the sound of a system it's what they do to improve a system they improve in ways that are hard or impossible to attain with other devices as such they are equally hard to describe and define via the written word........
    ... I consider tri-phazers to potentially be products of great import and consequence. I hope to be writing much more about this product.

Bound for Sound review  by Dr. Richard Weiner and Martin DeWulf

Several months later while reviewing some speakers that Martin really liked he thought to try the tri-phazers on the $4,500 units to his amazement they took great sounding speakers and made them better!
With that he wrote in the review: "Is there nothing that tri-phazers won't help?"

Now read letters from happy Tri-phazer customers.

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More interesting experiences from Bound for Sound.

Bound For Sound Amplifier Connection Part II

    A final point regarding set-up of the W3. Like no other amplifier in
this survey, the W3 benefited from the use of the Tritium Tri-phazer made
for loudspeakers. The W3 is a good sounding amplifier on its own, not a
whole lot to complain about, and some real positives. With the addition
of the speaker Tri-phazers, the amplifier came alive with tonal color and
energy. My listening notes say the following:
    "Inserted Tri-phazers today, vastly improved every aspect of sound.
thought that going from Clayton M-100's to W3 would be a great let down
- it has been anything but...transient action is outstanding. Edges are
caught largely without comprimise...Sense of space and presence is
stunning. I'm straining to find anything negative about this amp...amp
has abundant energy in the mids and upper mids. Awesome, playing with
fire, on verge of being overly aggressive - but not there. Walks a very
satisfying tight rope. Bass has energy, but not quite as clearly
contoured as the Clayton..."
    This is what I wrote the next night. "Noticed that images are larger
- closer - less outlined than with M-100's. Still sense of space and
presence is stunning...ambiance retrieval is superb, fill in all the
gaps. Tonally lush, and a very nearly complete harmonic, without being
overly boomy...I love the energy!!! Dynamic action is setting it apart -
mega dynamic contrasts, tonality, everything...the way this amp sounds
now, it could be my reference..."
    I've exceeded the general scope of "set-up" with a all the
superlatives spewed in the last couple of paragraphs, but I thought
going into some of my immediate reactions after inserting the Tri-phazers
warranted repeating. It was an experience.
    SONICS. After the above. there isn't much suspense in reading the
rest of this review. However, I'd like to refer once again to the Buddy
Guy, Junior Wells disc. It was the W3 with Tri-phazers that most vividly
exhibited to me just how amazing that CD really is. And I'm not sure
that any power amplifier has rendered that disc any more realistic or
alive than did the W3. Mind you, I don't think that the reproduction was
perfect with the W3, with or without the Tri-phazers. The midrange
dynamics of the W3 were just short of the near perfection found with the
NTA Callas, so they were still very good. And in that same range, I felt
that W3 was actually a little better than the Calla when it came to
fleshing out low level detail..........
   The W3 captured the certain shades of life that are part of a
complete harmonic presentation. Of course, this aspect of the
performance was heightened by the use of the Tritium Tri-phazer.
    No Ac line conditioning was used, the amp being plugged into the
wall. I used Tritium Tri-phazers during all critical listening after
determining that the "basic" character of the amp was not changed by
their use. The amplifier came to me well used, so I can't comment on the
nature of the break-in, or how long it took.

Martin De Wulf

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