June 18, 2025
Introducing Everest-X
Forged in Discovery, Perfected Through Innovation.
Shunyata Research is proud to announce the release of the Everest-X, the most advanced power distributor in the company’s 25-year history. As the successor to the award-winning Everest 8000, the new technologies deployed in Everest-X represent a dramatic advance in the pursuit of absolute fidelity in recording, mastering and listening systems.
Built upon decades of research and scientific refinement, the Everest-X is destined to reset performance expectations in the power delivery category. Whether anchoring the power domain at world-class recording studios or invigorating the performance in a home music system, Everest-X delivers on the promise of resolution without compromise.
Compared to traditional power conditioning, Everest-X reproduces sound with a profound sense of physical timing and extended silence. Sound is more visceral and impactful due to the newfound absence of noise and distortion. Familiar recordings take on added scale as if more powerful amplification was added to the system. Everest-X imbues sound with a profoundly quiet background, bringing forward newfound harmonic detail from instruments and voice.
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EVEREST-X
TAP (Transverse Axial Polarizer) is a patent-pending technology developed by Shunyata Research to enhance the performance of its reference signal cables. The evolution of this technology has led to the creation of TAPc, a groundbreaking advancement that significantly reduces the size of the modules, enabling their application across a broader range of products, including power distributors, power cords, interconnects, digital cables and speaker cables.
The sonic results of TAPc technology include a profound drop in perceived noise floor, effortlessly portrayed dynamics, and an exceptional rendering of timing and coherency. These benefits are unique to TAPc, setting it apart from any competing product or technology. Even to an untrained ear, the effects of TAPc are immediately apparent and consistently repeatable across various components and systems. Essentially, the TAPc modules act as force multipliers, elevating the listening experience to levels many would not have thought possible.
POWER HARP technology, originally developed to address current resonances in speaker cables, has now been adapted for power distribution in the Everest-X. Through extensive research, Caelin Gabriel identified the presence of current drift and audio-frequency current resonances within power delivery systems, much like standing wave modes in room acoustics. In the Everest-X, the HARP module functions as a current-mode diffraction device, disrupting these resonances to enhance resolution, coherence, and dynamic stability across connected components. By mitigating these power system artifacts, HARP technology helps create a more refined, noise free listening experience, allowing the full potential of a system to be realized.
The QR/BB™ is a patented device which dramatically enhances the perception of dynamic impact and timing when connected to amplifiers or other high-current electronics. The QR/BB™ is unique in that it provides a local reserve of energy, or Coulomb charge, that mitigates the inductive reactance of the AC power line without using coils, transformers or capacitors. The QR/BB™ acts as an instantaneous energy reserve when placed in-line with an AC power supply.
— Patent Number: US 10,031,536 —
Common-mode noise is different than differential noise and is much more difficult to measure and eliminate. For the purest signal possible, Shunyata Research has developed a CMode filter that effectively reduces common-mode noise without introducing the sonic compression effects associated with conventional filters. It reduces high-frequency noise distortion while delivering an analog ease and palpable background silence that closes the gap between digital and analog systems.
KPIP v2™ Shunyata Research’s proprietary Kinetic Phase Inversion Process includes four days of continuous KPIP v2™ processing which refines conductor metals at the atomic level. This dramatically reduces burn-in time and significantly improves sonic performance, delivering a relaxed and life-like presentation. When compared to the original process, KPIP v2™ represents a dramatic performance upgrade on par with a component-level upgrade.