Surge protector

@12many True. OTOH, Wirecutter is literally the only time I’ve seen actual surge testing done by a third party.

Every other review I’ve seen for surge protectors is basically just reading the online specs.

If you do happen to find actual surge testing done by others, please let me know.

The best remedy is NOT to listen to direct to wall purists and audio enthusiasts often contributing to discussions here. They are extremely delusional. There are may be X many reasons vs. just ONE safety you can't jeopardize. I have surges nearly daily and my relatively vintage Panamax is a REAL DOG when it comes to protection and voltage stabilization!

The discussion on this got me to dragging my feet.  I did go to Furman's site and I do see that Sweet Water is an authorized dealer, so I think I am going to call them and order a PST-8 from them, and it will be better protection than what I have now, which is no surge protection.

I will say that so far in my life I have NEVER experienced any type of surge activity that damaged any of my components, and once upon a time I never even used to unplug my gear during thunderstorm activity--I was happily oblivious. 

But there is a first time for everything.  I used to eat six raw eggs a day, and when someone told me about raw egg salmonella  I scoffed at that person.  I told him that I must have ate ten thousand raw eggs and never suffered so much as an upset stomach.  But then I thought about it soime more, and I decided that as many raw eggs as I had consumed in my life, I was probably due to get a bad one.  So I don't do that anymore.  As far as my system goes, for the immediate time being it is physically unplugged from the wall when not being used.