Can I run my Amp from a Line Conditioner?


HELLO GROUP, I HAVE A SUNFIRE CINEMA GRAND AMP AND A MONSTER HTS-5000 LINE CONDITIONER, DOES THIS LIMIT MY AMP? I ALREADY HAVE A 65" PROJECTION UNIT AND VCR,DVD,SAT,HARMAN RECEIVER AND HARMAN AMP,A COOLING FAN AND 2 40 WATT LITES FOR THE STEREO CABINETS PLUGGED INTO THIS.ANY HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED. ALSO I HAVE A SEPERATE 100 AMP ALL COPPER SERVICE ENTRANCE DEDICATED TO THIS AUDIO ROOM. THANKS,RICK
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Rick:

I have had no problem running my equipment through a Tice Solo AV line conditioner, however, I now use a PS Audio P600 Power Plant with even better "musical" results. I can honestly say that with the Tice I was NOT experiencing any current limiting. It sounds like you have your act together with a dedicated 100 amp service to your audio room. You should be good to go!
It depends on several factors. If you have highly efficient speakers of reasonable impedance, a small room and listen at low levels, i see no problems arising at all. If you have a large room, low efficiency low impedance speakers and like to listen at higher volumes, ANY power conditioner will starve this amp. If you are somewhere in the middle of the two situations mentioned above, try it and see what happens. Sean
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I'd heard that you don't want to use the same power conditioner for your amp than for the other components. Is this true?
I had a 5000 and ran my amp through it...you should be ok. I have recently discovered if your equipment has a highly regulated power supply (like my Sonic Frontiers Line 1) you DONT want to use LCs, but the Sunfire should be good to go.

Peter, you heard wrong...a good LC is designed to keep digital gear seperate from other gear plugged into it. I'm sure ideally it would be great to have everything seperate, but I can't afford to do that.