Power conditioner help

Try unplugging all of them and listening without power conditioners...just good wall plugs and power cords.

We just finished the rebuild of one of the lower powered Elgars (which is to say that it handles 1000 VA; about 8.5 amps at 117V).

It regulates the line voltage such that with 100 - 130 volts input, the output is rock stable, with no distortion of the AC waveform output. We ran a pair of our M-60s on it- pretty nice; no 'high end audio' conditioner even comes close.

Before I became aware of these conditioners (thanks to Michael Percy) we were constantly running into the problem of our amps sounding **worse** on most 'high end' conditioners; at best no difference.

Given that in high end audio, price for performance is often no object, it really puzzles me why no-one makes a decent power conditioner, but that's how it is. Most of them are a waste of money. One thing that really gets me is how a glorified power strip is supposed to help- now you are forcing everything on the box to run through the single power cord that feeds the box. You're pretty well guaranteed some sort of power sag. So unless you're really serious about getting a decent power conditioner, you're probably a lot better off just getting decent power cords and making sure you have good quality AC outlets in your audio room, per stringreen's comment above. 

Miko's suggestion can be improved upon. An isolation transformer would be beneficial; 2 would be better. 1 for your digital player and 1 for analog source; however "balanced transformers" like Equitech are better yet. You should read their tech info and particularly review their customer list.

Atmaspere; nice to hear your thank you to Michael Percy. My experience with him goes back to the early 90's and I've appreciated his knowledge and integrity.

sorry.for mis-spelling. Atmasphere.