I have had the same experience. It appears that power conditioning is a system to system thing. In general those of us with dedicated lines find it makes things worse. I can remember thinking my Tice Power Block helped on other components beside power amp when I was not using a dedicated line. There are several possible reasons I can think of and probably a lot more. One is that the conditioner does not have sufficient capacity for the amp. Amps can draw really amazing amounts of current for short periods of time. I just replaced the power cord on my Musical Fidelity NuVista amp , which was large, with a much larger one and got an immediate and very noticeable improvement. But others have reported little or no improvement by changing power cords. In HIFICritic recently a stock cheapie cord outperformed some expensive ones on a CD player. On Power amps the high priced ones were better. A whole group of reasons can be lumped together under the heading " Don't put anything in the line that you can leave out" You may be improving on area at the expense of another. There is so much out there on this that all I can say is that there is simply no consensus on almost any aspect of it. There are several interesting approaches, The "Never Connected" method interests me. But unless you have a large amount of time to spend doing research on it the best thing is to use what sounds better and forget about it.
Power cord into power amp
I have a full Isoclean system and I was running the Supreme Focus through the Transformers and the 80A filter.
After reading one of the threads here I saw that it is best not to run a power cord into a filter and then into a power amp. Thinking that the Isoclean gear was above that because of the satisfaction I was hearing out of my system I decided to rip into this thinking. But before I wrote anything I pulled the PC out of the filter and into the dedicated wall circuit. Was I ever glad I didn't write up on my bashing thoughts I had about running the PC through a filter.
So what did I hear. Dynamics came alive with a wider soundstage and DEEPER bass. I can turn up the volume higher without the music breaking down. Almost a night and day difference.
Can anyone explain why this has happened?
Thanks to all who contribute their audio info here on the 'Gon.
After reading one of the threads here I saw that it is best not to run a power cord into a filter and then into a power amp. Thinking that the Isoclean gear was above that because of the satisfaction I was hearing out of my system I decided to rip into this thinking. But before I wrote anything I pulled the PC out of the filter and into the dedicated wall circuit. Was I ever glad I didn't write up on my bashing thoughts I had about running the PC through a filter.
So what did I hear. Dynamics came alive with a wider soundstage and DEEPER bass. I can turn up the volume higher without the music breaking down. Almost a night and day difference.
Can anyone explain why this has happened?
Thanks to all who contribute their audio info here on the 'Gon.
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