Power Conditioners?

I use the Belkin PureAV Silver Series Home Theater Power Console PF6. It has worked excellent thus far and is a real steal online,it can be had for under 300 and retailed for like 700 originally. I got mine for like 215 shipped, and like I said am very happy. I also actually use a APC unit for my DLP tv, because of the safe shutdown required.

I use the PurePower as it not only protects from surges but also power outages with it's battery back up, not cheap but it also is a power regenerator, best power conditioner I've found.

There are not many conditioners that can withstand a continuous assault of spikes and surges without breaking down. The isolation transformer is an exception. Although the large-sized unit (up to 5 KVA) you need for a complete system is heavy and expensive at retail, they can be found on eBay at prices which make them competitive with commercial audio gear. As a bonus, they do a great job on sound, with improvement pretty much across-the-board.

Remember that power conditioning consists of three things -- RF filtation to eliminate hash, surge protection to suppress voltage spikes, and also battery backup to eliminate voltage dips. However, most battery backups cannot be used with amplifiers or other high current/high wattage devices.

Any UPS at your local electronics retailer will do those things (excluding backing up your amplifier) for less than US$100. I use an old Adcom ACE 515 and a Monster Power HTS850 (neither of which I recommend), both plugged into a CyberPower UPS, giving me three layers of surge protection and hash filtration, and one layer of battery backup. Eventually I will get rid of the first two products and just use the UPS, with my amplifiers plugged into the filtered-but-not-battery-backup outlets.

I have APC is does what they claim.