Amp ac cable connection

If you are in an apartment building or condo you may benefit from conditioner as there will very likely be a lot of noise in your AC, and conditioner may improve sound even as it limits current. If you are in a single family home near a transfer station with your amp on a separate line and breaker in your home, your power is likely less corrupted and going straight to the wall should sound better.  As suggested previously, just try it both ways if you can get a conditioner on loan from The Cable Company or other source.

Mitigating decision is whether or not you are in an area prone to electrical storms and at risk of frying your investment with no protection. I lost a TV that way.

Check out both ways let us know.

"Power conditioners restrict power flow. That is just the nature of the beast. I don’t care who makes it they all work basically the same way. Get rid of it."

Simply wrong. Synergistic Research Powercell 10/12 does not restrict current and works completely differently than other "power conditioners".

It also does not perform surge protection. Nor will any claimed surge protector/conditioner prevent damage from lightning strikes. The place for a surge protector is on your TV cable line (only, unless you like choking the current flow to your audio system).

psinyc, which Powercell model do you have?

Based on my knowledge, there are two power conditioner brand which are "NON-CURRENT LIMITED". Tara Labs (PM2, Ad6, IDAT) and Synergistic Research powercell. The rest of PCs whatever the brand is, they are not suitable for Power amps.

Tara labs Power C. has this Surge protection feature. I tried both in my amps and even in cascade mode, the result is wonderful. I am still using Tara labs Ad6 with my amps.

cheers ...

Hi michelzay,

Tara Labs makes fine products and their "conditioners" are some of the best. This quality of power products is what I call "AC Enhancers" vs "power conditioners" to differential them from the "choke type" conditioners described accurately by benjie above.

Best to you,
Dave