Who has dumped the power conditioner?

Sme10 - I recently installed Furman 20PFi conditioner. It has three banks of outputs: for high current amps, for audio, for video. I connected my components accordingly. After 1 day of pretty muffled sound dynamics came back, imaging got more focused, midrange opened becoming more detailed, bass is more "even" (midbass resonant frequency disappeared)and shorter but still "punchy" (lower source impedance?). The really strange thing is that my DLP TV picture got much better (sharper, cleaner and more vivid colors). That was pretty much what Furman was promising but it doesn't make much sense (digital OTA signal, digital TV). The only explanation is that presence of noise on power lines (or interaction audio-video) was causing signal jitter (noise in time domain). In addition I sleep better since Furman has non-sacrificial overvoltage protection that clamps at 188V max (not around 300V like many power strips with protection).

IMHO any situation that resulted in better dynamics, fullness, detail and focus AFTER removing the power conditioner, was the result of a power conditioner lacking head room. Speaking from my own personal experience, that would NOT be the case with a Silver Circle Audio pure power one 5.0. Game changing gear, this stuff. Check them out at www.silvercircleaudio.com.

Timztunz, I think that you are right on about most power conditioners lacking headroom. It looks like the Silver Circle Power One 5 is just a very large transformer. I think that others, such as Synergistic Research have found more innovative methods to avoid constriction.

Tbg wrote: "It looks like the Silver Circle Power One 5 is just a very large transformer." As the owner of Silver Circle Audio, I don't quite know how to respond to this. As dismissive as it is, the comment is, at the very least, uninformed. The pure power one 5.0 also contains a proprietary hand-built filter for eliminating common mode and differential mode noise and the finest electrical transmission components available anywhere. I would not be so quick to dismiss something in so quite an offhand manner until I had experienced it. It might be quite surprising.

Tbg should investigate and audition the Silver Circle Audio 5.0 power conditioner. If he did he would soon experience a lowered noise floor, increased dynamics, improved clarity due to better imaging and resolution and in general a bigger and more musical presentation.
My bass extension and increased dynamics were worth the price of the 5.0.
The other improvements realized were the icing on my cake.
This power conditioner simply out-performs every other conditioner on the market, period.