Press Reviews

"I am ready to declare Giant Steps are the State of the Art footer."

"The resolution is extremely high and very engaging with more transparency and much more accurate timbre. The improvements run seamlessly across the audible spectrum."

"Blacker background, more layered soundscape, greater dynamics? Yes, yes, and yes!"

"But the tonal colors from the life-like timbre are the most mesmerizing."

"I instantly noticed the improved resolution with the Giant Steps."

"They are in a higher league."

"Cymbals were highly resolved with no apparent smear."

"Voice was more analog or natural - there was no grain."

"The bass was tighter."

"The Chinese drum cut had outstanding timbre. Music was emerging from a much quieter soundstage."



"Timbre was improved and there was greater resolution. The bass was very impressive. Instruments were not masking each other. The orchestras were more resolved and layered front to back. The soundstage was very clear and the instruments were precisely located."

"There was a clear sense that the music was getting better over time."

"I was reveling in the excellent resolution and timbre which gave me a very "you are there" experience."

"There was more inner detail and the air in the recorded venue seemed crystal clear. There was more layering with orchestral works and the soundstage came further forward in the front corners. The music was becoming more real and I felt like I had moved up to the tenth row in the theater. I could hear the hall sound clearly as the reflections gave recordings a more accurate sense of space and size. Turning the volume up felt like walking down the aisle toward the stage with the performers or the orchestra becoming appropriately larger."

"...from start to finish, my toe-tapping the whole time."

"The guitar notes had an even faster attack and were more transparent. The extended vowels in Joni's singing revealed even more quiver and microdynamics. I had greater cognition of words in the lyrics."

"Tears welled up in my eyes."

"Giant Steps brought me to the edge of being there - and not just with one CD. Almost every CD I played felt like it had been dramatically remastered from the original tapes."

"The Giant Steps gave me a window into the lyrics, musicality, and nuance of the music. They also enabled a personal connection to the singers and musicians."

"My recommendation would be to start at the front end(s) of your system and work your way toward the speakers as far as your budget allows."

"Having tasted the purity and immediacy of the music with the Giant Steps, I missed them when they were removed. Could I live without them? Certainly, but given the available resources, I'll keep them, thank you, and likely order more."

"It is clear the Giant Steps are destined to become the Bitcoin of High-End Audio."

"Giant Steps have taken me up what feels like the final ascent. I feel like I could declare "game over" and live out the rest of my life enjoying my LP collection."

"immediately produced a noticeable change in sound."

"the effect was even more pronounced."

"a significant transformation in the sonic message and the overall energy level conveyed by the system."

"increase in perceived resolution"

"allowed the mids to emerge with more clarity and natural articulation."

"striking clarity, grain-free, with micro-dynamics"

"more articulate in its attack and tonally richer, with a resonant quality that heightens the realism of the performance."

"Piano keystrokes become more expressive and detailed."

"Giant Steps enables a clear disentangling of harmonic lines, maintaining clarity, emotional expressiveness, and engagement that surpasses what’s possible without them."

"a remarkable focus projected into space with almost tactile intimacy."

"Breaths, inflections, and the slightest modulations now come through with greater presence and communicative nuance."

"The guitar gains attack and brilliance without ever sounding overemphasized. Harmonics are more audible and seem to extend into space more freely and naturally."

"The double bass moves closer: its fundamental notes are full, rich, and vibrant."

"draw nearer to the natural expressive core"

"leave us wanting to hear one more track… and then another."

"more coherent, more stable soundstage where each instrument acquires a precise and tangible placement."

"The midrange gains presence never exaggerated or unbalanced. Voices become clearer, more centered, yet weightless, as if the sound were emanating from a living body right there in the center."

"Subtle details once veiled now surface naturally: secondary reverberations, spatial reflections, underlying harmonic vibrations that previously remained hidden emerge with ease, as if the signal itself had been partially cleansed of an invisible yet ever-present noise floor."

"undeniably perceptible."

"brings back to the sound that elusive sense of spontaneity and coherence we often chase for years"

"The Giant Steps don’t change the tonality, and they don’t alter the sound per se. What they change is how the system breathes. They do this gently, but with a tangible effect, regardless of the setup. Certain elements that previously went unnoticed begin to reveal themselves, the soundstage feels fuller and more expansive, the bass tighter and quicker still energetic, but now delivered with more grace."

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English translation

"...was instant and hardly subtle."

"digs sensibly deeper and feels more agile, substantial, anchored, defined, controlled, elastic, composed, powerful and dynamically keen."

"The entire perspective gets cleaner and more specific, while vocals and instruments liberated from excess grain and edginess develop the extra density, color, smoothness and articulation."

"Backdrop becomes inkier, cleaner, more moist and busy with nuances that are easier to track and focus on."

"The landscape in front of us grows in size and raises its complexity, while all the sound sources rendered therein are more in focus, expressive and contrasting."

"Giant Steps venture even deeper by injecting even greater heft, juiciness, backdrop inkiness, sensuality and moisture into the music."

"Of the three compared footers, with Giant Steps my system produced the most dense, atmospheric, anchored, dark and velvety sound."

"it worked really well."

"quick, controlling, resolved and composed"

"When Giant Steps were on duty, my system made music noticeably more relaxed, flowing and sensual than with the other two footer types."

"the sensation of enveloping space, ambience, soothing mood and enjoyable flow particularly on calm minimalist tracks was unique, strong, very likeable and as trippy as the design’s principle itself."

"very high level of listening comfort"

"gains all around."

"just as the manufacturer’s Firewall did before it, today’s tiny nicely dressed robust footers changed a lot in my system. So much so in fact that I consider both these designs as equally effective and wicked on that score."

"very surprising and performance-wise quite the step up indeed."

Hifi Knights
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