Amp Power Conditioner or not?


I was moving some equipment around and plugged my amp - MF NuVista M3 w/ Nordost El Dorado cable - directly into the wall for what I thought would be a few minutes. To my surprise it sounds better. More open, smoother, less conjested, more three-dimentional. I think I'm going to leave it that way.

Anyone else have the same experience?
grimace
I've been listening to it for about three hours now and the improvement is NOT subtle. Is it possible that the PC was restricting the amount of juice getting to the amp? It just sounds cleaner.

The CDP still sounds better through the conditioner, but the amp sound worlds better without it.

My Sonic Frontier Power 3SE+ mono sounds much better when plugged into the EquiTech 2Q.

When I had a PS Audio Power Plant Premier, the fan would turn on if I plug only one mono into it ... too small.

I have 2 dedicated 20 amps outlets for my audio system.
Knghifi,
My results are the same as yours.I use a BPT 3.5 Signature which uses a balanced transformer as does your EquiTech. These units are high power capacity-high current models that can handle power amp demands. Many power conditioners are too small to accomadate amplifiers but are suitable for all other components. I`ve tried 3 different amps with the BPT and sonics are much improved, yes even dynamics,bass and resolution.
I have tried the same routine with both Audio Research and most recently Rowland Amps. In both cases the amps sounded better directly connected to the outlet. A step beyond, however, is the use of a Rowland PC-1 with the 501's. That has significantly improved performance over the direct wall connection.
I believe it is important to mention what type amps -- IMO, my tube amps sound the best directly into dedicated outlets whereas, the sources & preamp are into a non-filtered power bar fed from a large isolation transformer (on a dedicated line).

Bob