Most iconic product and it offers the extreme low-noise performance of battery-powered designs without the maintenance hassle of actual batteries. By utilizing a "two-mono" construction and extensive passive filtering, it achieves a level of silence and channel separation typically found only in much more expensive equipment. Awarded it the Editors' Choice Award, noting its "thrillingly eerie feeling of stepping into a recorded space". They described its sound as smooth, articulate, and exceptionally wide-staged.