The system seems to be taking less effort in making music, and does so with vastly improved transient attack and speed of delivery, and yet somehow does all this without changing the character of the products connected. It also does that great thing that IsoTek devices are so good at enhancing without changing. I used it with a range of digital and analogue audio devices, in part to try and fill-up all its sockets to test it under stress. The EVO3 enhancements mean those 12 sockets are completely isolated and see equal resistance. The best way of thinking it is two EVO3 Sigmas joined at the hip and then given a bit of a spit shine and a power up. Truth be told, I was fairly blown away by what the EVO3 Nova can do. IsoTek suggests a couple of cable upgrades on its basic – but useful – red instruction manual. My home voltage was usually around 240-242 pretty much throughout the day, although the harmonic distortion did increase in the evening until about 11pm, when it began to fall again. This is controlled by the three buttons on the front panel left displays input voltage, the middle one turns the display off, while the right shows percentage THD on the AC line. When powered up, there is a single constant blue LED and a bright blue numeric display behind a semi-mirrored panel in the middle of the Nova’s front plate. This technology is usually found in the company’s Syncro power cable, or most recently in its new Syncro Uni box. The Nova also features DC cancellation circuit, which rebalances the mains sine wave on the zero volts line, thus reducing transformer hum. However, the clearance is tight and unless you have long, thin fingers, you might struggle to throw all three switches with the spikes in place. Having these switches on the underside means the Nova has to use the supplied spikes (or alternatives) to allow for clearance. Then flip the switches on the left side to enable the upper and lower sets of four lower power three-pin sockets. The curious part of the Nova is powering it up there are three thermomagnetic fuses on the underside of the To power the Nova up, first throw the one under the right hand side of the box (this powers the box up, fires up the display, and powers up the high-power side). You’d need a pretty large system to run out of plug sockets with a Nova in the mix. It’s fed by a single C20 plug (IsoTek supplies a mid-blue cable called Premier from its Discovery range) and the unit is neatly sub-divided into four high-power sockets and eight sockets used for sources and preamplifiers. In fact, the Nova is a bit of a brute by IsoTek standards, up there with the bigger Mosaic and Ultimate conditioners in size and weight terms. You could mistake it for a power amplifier, were it not for the front LED panel.
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The Nova is a full sized product that stands about twice as tall as the company’s popular EVO3 Sigmas conditioner. The Nova One is a neat little box that could be mistaken for a phono stage power supply or a tiny DAC. Of course, one look at the product in its own right clears up any such confusion. It’s also not entirely right to class the Nova as a dozen Nova Ones in a single box, although there is some element of truth to that statement.
Delete the word ‘One’ and you have a £5,995 12 outlet passive filter/conditioner in the company’s Select range. IsoTek make a product called the Nova One, which is a single £1,500 power outlet filter from the company’s Mosaic range.
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