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Amps In Wall Or Conditioner?

Stereo amp and subwoofer amp, both with upgrade PCs, plugged straight into (upgraded) wall outlets.
Same with tube preamp.

Now getting power conditioner for use on DAC, streamers, CD, maybe even analog sources. 
Conditioner has 2 high-current outlets. Majority opinion says don't use these for amps.
If not, how about preamp and/or DAC? Any foreseeable benefit or detriment of high-current vs. linear filtered?
Thanks! 
hickamore
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mijostyn
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@nonoise, if the power supply is not doing it's job correctly then you need to buy better equipment. And, on what basis are you making this statement, by what you hear or by actual testing of power supplies?
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ditusa
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I have my Canary Mono Amps directly in the wall on a dedicated 20 amp line.
I was told by my amp builder to not plug amps into a PC.

      I agree 100%
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nonoise
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@mijostyn,
I used to wonder about this until I saw this video.

All the best,
Nonoise
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charles1dad
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@grannyring, 

"Depends on the condition"

Absolutely  correct. By no means are they all created equally. 

"Just this weekend I tried the wall vs the Puritan again just to confirm. It was quite obvious the Puritan was the way to go."

@grannyring funny you mention this. I did the same thing several weekends ago. I have the BPT 3.5 Signature plus which is a balanced AC isolated transformer power conditioner. For 12 years My amplifiers have been plugged into it due to it sounding better than direct in the wall AC outlet. 

I decided to plug amplifiers into the wall which is a 20 amp  dedicated line. No different now than 12 years ago. Same result,   better sound quality across the sonic board with the BPT versus the wall AC outlet. This will not be true for every power conditioner,  but certainly is for some.
Charles 

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