CES 2012 – Synergistic Research

This room had a pair of YG Acoustics Anat III Studio speakers driven by an Esoteric A-03 amplifier, almost everything sitting on Synergistic Research Tranquility Base XL platforms and, of course, cables with Synergistic cable.

Synergistic Research has been trying to capture part of the weird-tweak craze with their Acoustic Art tweaks. There were a couple of these on the floor.

The YG Acoustics Anat III Studio speaker

YG Acoustics Anat III Studio speaker

The Esoteric A-03 Stereo Amplifier.on a Synergistic Research Tranquility Base XL platform

The Esoteric A-03 Stereo Amplifier.

Note the Synergistic Research Tranquility Base XL platforms on the Grand Prix equipment rack.

This cool-blue-tube thing is the power supply for Synergistic Research’s Active Shielding cables.

Here is a good shot of the cabling on the Esoteric amp and the back of the YG Acoustic speaker.

A close-up of the Synergistic Research Galileo cable box.

Now this is a weird, and potentially very cool, thing. The description is below.

So what it does is convert USB to RCA and BNC. So essentially it enables the use of old style and/or high-quality DACs with our computer or other network-aware sources.

Ah, the old power cord on the wall trick… 🙂