Who has dumped the power conditioner?

Some people should get INEGRITY !

Yep... I've never found one I've liked better than my dedicated lines alone. I do have my video stuff (TV/DVD player, Wii machine) plugged into an inexpensive Monster unit to keep them away from the audio stuff.

Doak

You can enjoy your life and still behave ethically.

Give it a shot and stop whining because you got caught.

I think you may be losing your audience due to the bickering. Please cease and continue with the original posters topic.

I used power conditioners for years and found that using cascading power conditioners on my digital rig made a nice improvement. But as I have moved up the chain to better components I have found that the PC's have had a detrimental effect on them in some cases.

- My amp likes it straight into the wall.
- My preamp has conditioning built into it, as does my phono preamp, and anything additional sounds worse.
- My new CD player also likes it direct into the wall. None of the different kinds of conditioning sounds better than this.

Since I'm a DIY kind of guy it has been easy for me to implement these changes and still maintain a safe "junction box" or sorts where I can have some surge protection and some small X (or Y) caps across the line that do not affect the components in any negative way.

I do still find benefits of PC for my turntable motor and my old DAC's, when I want to listen to those.

Now please consider that I have had my fuse box and power lines replaced in the last 5 years, so this may have contributed to better power in my home also.

Enjoy,
Bob

Wow! How's the music?