Power conditioners and power regeneration


There are so many different options on this subject it’s unbelievable. But in the meantime it seems to me that between two companies that I’m comparing, they seem to do the same thing with power conditioning, and as far as I can tell there is no audible difference. Comparing two different conditioners, the elite 20 pfi and the aq pq2. On the other hand, I’ve heard that power regeneration is good, but it also can generate noise. Besides plugging into the wall, which I know works great, I still would like some protection to my amplifiers against brown out or surges. Has anyone else experienced any difference with these 2 products?

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I have my surge protection at the breaker box a Siemens 

then vh audio has a great one with surge power factor connection you connect just on your dedicated audio circuit .

breakers should be changed every 3-4 years ,unless you have silver plated copper contacts which I have on 2 breakers since the pandemic a5 industrial supply house no longer can get ,from Germany ,but by far the best $50 each at the time 

regular copper oxydizes ,and must be changed for it corrodes.

Interesting discussion. I use a Furman Elite 20PFi, but it sure seems like the quality of my sound varies by the time of day and I wonder if regeneration would offer improvement. I was researching Merason DAC's, and by accident came across, Maruson power products. What are thoughts on using something like:

 

for source devices? Granted you would need some outlets downstream from it, but pricewise it seems like a pretty good deal. Any thoughts?

I have been using an old Shunyata Hydra 4 for years. It also has surge protection. Love it. I sometimes find that certain mixes of cables to the wall plus cables to the conditioner can get a more perfect sound. My system is also on a dedicated line with Hubbell outlets. The Higher end Shunyata cables also have built in filtering that is not overbearing or dynamics blunting.