Tranquility Carbon
Condition signal from within.
Introducing Tranquility Base Carbon, the first all-new Tranquility Base in over a decade. We started with a new chassis machined from a solid billet of aircraft aluminum for a 50% slimmer and 80% more rigid chassis. We then experimented with new laminates and arrived at carbon fiber for its superior response to mechanical and airborne vibrations. We then applied our most advanced EM Cell technology directly transferred from our Galileo SX PowerCell. Finally, its internal UEF Technology was transferred from our new state-of-the-art SRX cable loom. The net result is a thinner and more rigid Tranquility Base with a lower noise floor from which springs improved dynamics and soundstaging combined with smoother, more extended high frequencies.
Tranquility Carbon
Condition at the source.
Tranquility Base history. Shortly after launching our first PowerCell line conditioner, our lead designer began work on a new application for his then new patent-pending EM Cell technology. It was early 2010, and Ted had the idea for an Electromagnetic Cell Field-Effect Conditioner capable of conditioning signal inside a component. First, we developed several flat EM Cells for placement below components running tests on multiple variants until we perfected an EM Cell capable of improving any component. We then experimented with different laminates engineered to cancel mechanical vibrations selecting the option that created the best sound quality. The first Tranquility Base was launched at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in late 2012. Three years later, we refreshed the Tranquility Base lineup in 2015 with the addition of UEF Technology. We have been building Tranquility Bases continuously since 2012 with minor running improvements along the way, but with no major overhaul or change to the fundamental design for the past decade, until now.
Tranquility Base Carbon
U.S. 110V MSRP
$2,495.00
INTL 220V MSRP
$2,995.00
Includes 1 sets of MiG 3.0 Isolation Footers
18.5″W x 16″D x 3/4″H
180 sq/in Active UEF EM Cell
Ground Plane Technology
Solid Billet Aluminum with Carbon Fiber Top
1 Single Lead MPC Power Supply
1 sets MiG 3.0 ($295.00 Value)
Tranquility Base Carbon XL
U.S. 110V MSRP
$3,495.00
INTL 220V MSRP
$3,995.00
Includes 1 sets of MiG 3.0 Isolation Footers
20″W x 23.25″D x 3/4″H
340 sq/in Active UEF EM Cell
Ground Plane Technology
Solid Billet Aluminum chassis with Carbon Fiber Top
1 Single Lead MPC Power Supply
1 sets MiG 3.0 ($295.00 Value)
Tranquility Carbon
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Hard drives – A surprising but significant improvement
Under Turntables – Improves clarity and sound staging
CD Players, DACS and Transports – Sound almost like Master Tapes
Pre-Amps
External Cross-overs
Amplifiers
One set MiG 3.0 included
Good things come in threes.
The new MiG 3.0 delivers an increased sense of space in the sound field plus improvements in low-frequency control and extension with high-frequency air and detail. All this with greatly enhanced resolution that is never fatiguing, plus a wall-to-wall holographic soundstage, including a sense of the performance enveloping your listening position. Listening notes: comparing MiG’s to isolation footers based on dampening principles, you hear more extended dynamic range and spatial cues where dampened footers tend to have a flatter sound and lack dynamic extension. Isolation footers based primarily on draining mechanical vibration away from the component tend to sound bright with less sound stage layering and mid-range warmth when compared to MiG’s. Lastly, if you have a full suite of SR Tech, your best possible footers will likely be MiG’s, as they work on similar principles and have a similar house sound to SR cables, power products, and acoustic treatments.
SR Isolation Footers
Upgrade and save.
Upgrade your included set of MiG 3.0 Isolation Footers to a set of our reference MiG SX
Upgrade cost +$500 ($995 MSRP)
SR Ground Block
This goes to 11.
Elevate your Tranquility Base Carbon's performance along with your entire system when you star-ground it all to an Active Ground Block SE or Galileo SX Ground Block. You can even ground the shields of Synergistic Research Atmosphere SX, Galileo SX, and SRX cable looms. The more you ground, the more you lower your system's noise floor. So you hear a larger and more layered sound field with powerful dynamics and detail, all with increased musicality over a standard ground, thanks to our Active Grond Filters' elimination of noise and distortion from your audio system.
Tranquility UEF LPS
Perfect Power.
With a Tranquility UEF Power Supply driving your Tranquility Base Carbon and Tranquility PODS, your soundstage increases in size and scale. Low frequencies are likewise improved with greater impact and control, while resolution is enhanced thanks to a lowering of your system’s noise floor. The net effect is a system-wide upgrade where your SR components get a boost in dynamic range and refinement for a not-so-subtle improvement to your system’s overall performance. Available with a no-risk in-home audition.
DC SX Power Cables
Direct to the source.
The ultimate DC cable is capable of transforming the performance of Active Synergistic Research components with the same newly developed technologies found in our Galileo Discovery and SRX level power cords. We start with a pure 99.9999% silver monofilament conductor in an air dielectric hand made in our California factory and add UEF Technology first developed for SRX level power cords and then apply a long duration high voltage conditioning process also designed for the SRX cable loom.
Available in anodized aluminum
Silver
Available in anodized aluminum
Black
Review
Review
Review
“all instruments projected further into the room with the surrounding ambience having greater clarity.”
“the noise floor drops and the product’s presentation gets less overtly ‘electronic’ sounding.”
“There is superior rendering of detail and subtle sounds of instruments. Both micro and macro dynamic qualities to the music are more easily heard.”