Power Conditioners

rbach604, suggest going beyond the conditioner and also have an electrician install a home home surge suppressor at the panel. I live in a suburb of Memphis and we get lots of lightning with storms and glad I did. Twice lightning was so bad that it took one of those out  but no damage to anything else. Far cheaper , even if it has to get replaced, than replacing my power conditioner or anything else

@facten  ,
+1.
A whole house surge protector is a great investment. The units are self sacrificing, but at least you will protect everything downstream.
Bob

My electric company put a whole house surge protector behind the electric meter.  It's something only the utility can do, but is the best way to prevent surge.  It comes with a multi-thousand dollar insurance policy.  Costs $10/mo. on my bill.  On plugging the amp directly into the wall vs. into the power conditioner, my NAD M3 integrated stated in the manual it should be plugged directly into the wall. I did research this and there is a difference in plugging into the wall vs. into the power conditioner depending on whether one is using separates or an integrated and depending on the component manufacturer's instructions.

I looked at the Shunyata Research Venom Defender AC Power Line Reducer and even though I have worked in AC power systems I can't begin to tell what it does (or might do).  I am not trolling or trying to thread crap.

My question for all of you who have purchased these (what I consider to be questionable and esoteric) power "conditioning" products, is this:  have you tried just a UPS that produces perfect sine wave power?  Seems like that would deal with all the potential issues you might have including voltage fluctuation, line noise from other (non-audio) connected devices, etc.  Plus, it would in all likelihood be much cheaper and quite possibly provide surge protection (though I'm not certain about that).

Hello,
What I find helpful in this regard is star grounding and grounding using one receptacle outlet. I have two dedicated circuits each feeds a Nordost distribution unit which uses star grounding inside the box. Each distribution box has one outlet dedicated for grounding, meaning all connections would ground through that outlet only. So I connect the pre-amplifier to one such grounding outlet in one distribution box and keep the other grounding outlet empty in the other distribution box. This allows me to use two dedicated circuits yet ground using one receptacle outlet, very much needed for lowering the noise floor. This gives me the best performance. I tried using Shuniyata, Clarus and a few other power conditioners including the one that Nordost has but none of them really worked as per my satisfaction. Regardless of the sequence of how I connected these power conditioners to the Nordost distribution box, the performance was not at par. So the bottom line, I could not leave the Nordost power distribution units out of my two channel system. Given that Nordost distribution boxes don’t do any power conditioning I could only attribute that performance gain to the star grounding and a little bit to their micro mono-filament technology.

Additionally I use 10 gauge Romex wire and Furutech GTX NCF-R receptacle each of which adds to the enhanced system performance.

Another thing that added to my AC power performance was the set of upgraded electronics. Very recently I have upgraded my DAC, Pre & Power Amplifiers to all Bricasti units from mostly Parasound components and I found that they are relatively less susceptible to AC quality issues.
All these didn’t complete solve the AC power quality issues in my system because the system performance is not consistent throughout the day and it sounds the best at 2:00 AM. However I don’t feel stressed thinking about the AC power quality issue now than before and moved my focus from the AC power to something else in my two channel system...
Thanks.