Condition signal from within
 
Introducing Tranquility Base Carbon, the first all-new Tranquility Base in over a decade. It all starts with a new chassis machined from a solid billet of aircraft aluminum for a 50% slimmer and 80% more rigid chassis. Then, experiments were carried out with new laminates and arrived at carbon fiber for its superior response to mechanical and airborne vibrations. After that, the most advanced EM Cell technology was applied, directly transferred from the Galileo SX PowerCell. Finally, its internal UEF Technology was transferred from the 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.
 
Condition at the source

Tranquility Base history. Shortly after launching the first PowerCell line conditioner, SR’s 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,  several flat EM Cells were developed for placement below components running tests on multiple variants until the EM Cell was perfected, capable of improving any component. After that, experiments with different laminates were done, 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, the Tranquility Base lineup was refreshed in 2015 with the addition of UEF Technology. Tranquility Bases were built continuously since 2012 with only minor running improvements along the way, but with no major overhaul or change to the fundamental design for the past decade, until now.
 
With the optional 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.
 
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Standard MiG footers offer all the hallmarks of Synergistic Research highest performance MiG SX, including an increased sense of space in the sound field plus improvements in low-frequency control and extension with high-frequency air and detail. While the new MiG 3.0 delivers 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.
The original MiG or Mechanical Interface Ground is a superb footer that excels with a warm natural balance that can be tuned through two placement options to best match your system. Placing just one or two sets of MiG’s under your components can deliver a significant increase in sound staging with a balanced to slightly warm tonal balance.
 
MiG 3.0 came about when Synergistic Research lead designer sought to incorporate new UEF technologies first developed during their SRX reference cable loom and Purple fuse design programs. He intended to bring MiG 3.0 closer to MiG SX’s increased resolution but with a richer and more dynamic harmonic structure with enhanced sound staging capabilities over MiG 2.0. To make this happen, we retuned the resonance characteristics of the MiG itself while incorporating the same UEF element found in SRX cables and Purple Fuses. The result is a MiG footer with a lower noise floor from which springs enhanced resolution with smoother highs and a larger sound field over the standard MiG and outgoing MiG 2.0.