Surge protector/conditioner for vintage system


I’m putting my vintage system back together (80s-90s components) mostly. I currently have them connected to a standard Belkin surge protector that I purchased at Lowes years ago. Question: is this enough or should I buy something more substantial with better protection? Do I need just the surge protector alone or also add a conditioner as well. Thanks in advance.

bluorion

There are only a two serious options to protect your system.

1. Insurance

2. Dedicated Solar Power with battery storage or floated batteries on mains power   using an inverter.

Although I live in a high lighting strike area, almost everything in my house was blown up by the Electric Company when they put 220v on my neutral and fed the whole road with 440v.

Almost $10k of damage to A/C units, TVs, fridges only things that survived were electric oven and hob and LED lighting.

Still fighting for a settlement even though they admitted fault.

Lucky most of my Hi-End gear was at another house.

Man whose car got swallowed by a sinkhole bemoans the inefficacy of seat belts and air bags.

Translation: No surge protector is perfect, or can handle a direct strike but 90% of equipment damaging surges are survivable with a decent protector.

I’m near Hilton Head and as I was typing this I literally lost power, my UPS kicked in and my HT lived through another set of adverse power events. On average I live through a dozen such events a year that I know of, and probably several I do not.  I can't imagine going naked when it comes to the incoming AC power.