Power Conditioners

Here's the most brilliant bit of marketing I've ever read, from the Pangea page, listed by the OP:

There are zero current-limiting circuits or electronic components of any kind inside."

The Furman conditioners with LiFT and SMP have lots of components which protect you against surge and also reduce noise starting at around 3 kHz.

If you want a "straight wire" with nothing changed, may I suggest the much cheaper kit from Parts Connexion:

https://www.partsconnexion.com/connex-kits.html

Personally, for $200 I'd rather have a Furman PST-8 which actually protects the equipment and reduced audible noise than a fancy box for power outlets, but that's just me.

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Consider spending the money running a dedicated spur to your HiFi and everything connected to it, TV, PC, whatever, get it all isolated from the rest of the houses wiring. Far more bang for your buck. I also use a pair of Weiduka AC8.8's, very good value for money and much better than the Monster units they replaced.

Protecting your stuff against any electrical enomalies should be everyone’s priorities if you ever had to deal with a claim with your insurance provider, sometimes you are not in good hands . If your not sure how well your stuff would be protected during a lightning storm plain common sense should tell you just unplug it .

If a power strip gives you piece of mind great however like Atmosphere said power strips are not conditioners . Using conditioners , re-generation and transformer based over the past 30 years I’ve been disappointed with many manufacturers claims and enthusiastic reviews however I finally learned none of these devices are going to work as advertised for everyone.

Just recently I tried out , “home trial“ the conditioner and Ac cords from Synergistic Research they worked at dropping the noise floor noticeably well and as a added bonus they provide a decent quality power cord with their line of conditioners . My previous Inakustic 3500 conditioner and Inakustic power cords we’re replaced by SR conditioner.

amg56747 posts05-08-2020 8:51am

follow me Ok? How much is your equipment worth?

+ 1, they are not for sound, they are for protection. The better sound is a byproduct of a cleaned up AC supply. Kinda goes hand in hand.. If it’s pretty clean to begin with, it might be hard to tell the difference..

Plug everything into cleaners, maintainers, conditioners, Tripp Lite is perfect, with a noise fix I have. Very quiet, NOW...

My issue is "try this, it sound better", WHY? What the heck did they leave out? LOL I want the protection.

Regards

My limited experience has revealed that surge protection limits dynamics and soundstage size. Two units that I've tried are the Brick Wall and Tripp Lite brands and both negatively affected the dynamics and soundstage. Others here have praised them, leading me to believe either they can't hear all that well or their systems aren't that resolving.

Even a Blue Circle Thingee without surge protection didn't sound as well as going directly into the wall. I barely heard a difference with my Marantz Reference integrated but it was plain as day with my Kinki Studio integrated.

It was when I tried the High Fidelity MC-0.5 that I got some taming of the AC nasties. Two more of them further improved the sound. But, it was when I got the Audioquest Niagara 1200 that I finally realized the potential of my system.

Nothing negative, everything positive, to say about it. The noise floor was so lowered that dynamics were naturally increased. Sound stage widened just a bit more (I've always had good results with that) but the depth and layering were greatly improved, again, from that lowered noise floor.

Tone, timbre and life like recreations are the norm now, as are frequency extension in both directions. Everything sounds just so much more authentic, completing the illusion, which is all it really is, but that is the point of all of this, right? 😀

All the best,
Nonoise