Shunyata Research Altaira Grounding Hub (Pre-owned)

We have for sale a Shunyata Research Altaira Grounding Hub

This is pre-owned, one owner from new, it was originally installed by myself in September 2023 and has been traded in as the customer has upgraded to the new Altaira X hub.

This is silver, as new condition (no marks) and supplied in original packaging with instructions.

This is still a current model in the Shunyata range, RRP is £3000

Caelin Gabriel, the owner and chief designer at Shunyata developed the Altaira Grounding Hub to be a state of the art solution for controlling ground plane noise in home audio systems. The Altaira is essentially a centralised hub that can remove ground loops and dramatically reduce ground noise, typically the sort of noise that can cause buzzing, humming and other similar unwanted pollutants. Electrical grounds are rife with noise, interference from devices in the home such as routers, microwave ovens, chargers for devices such as mobile phones, laptops, smart lights and suchlike.

The Altaira has 6 grounding posts on the back, plus a 7th post designed to connected to either the ground earth terminal on a Shunyata Power Conditioner or the ground pin on an unused wall socket.

The Altaira connects to the chassis ground of each of the components in your system and drains away noise and pollutants into the Altaira, when this noise reaches the Altaira it is dissipated via Shunyata’s proprietary filtering technology which they employ with the hubs. In addition to this you also give each component in your system that you connect a true reference ground point.

I talk about lowering/reducing noise frequently and when you do this properly you can make a system much more revealing, increase overall dynamics as and when they are required, but at the same time you make the presentation calmer, more natural, you get improved 3D imaging, better tonal accuracy and for want of a better expression you make the music simply sound correct. Grain and glare is stripped away and you get to hear more into the music.

If you have a good system and you already have a Shunyata power conditioner the addition of an Altaira is a superb upgrade, there is no waiting around for performance to settle, integrating one into a system is like flicking a switch.

Please note: no grounding cables are included (they are not included with a new one), there are 6 different ground cable options available depending on your system and budget.

Price includes UK P&P