Help with purchase of power conditioner

I hate to ask a dumb question, but here it goes, what all does a power conditioner do?

Psyched out for a capacitor? No. It's the "switch" that doesn't switch anything in or out, and is just a bundle of wires running in parallel...

Like shampoos and cosmetics, the case is the most expensive component!

Isolation transformers will get you much farther--I recently bought a 3000W ONEAC 220V beast for less than what a Vans Evers ref 12 costs...

Sorry Rigo, I don't mean to confuse you, but I've been heavily studying and practicing this topic and consider myself qualified to speak up. If you get a $55 Power Var and a Tice A/V Solo you'll get really decent HT performance. The TPT treatment *does* increase depth in TV picture--give it a shot.

Regards,

The Psychic

I would seriously look into some of the new line of Panamax
Power Conditioners. I have one of the newer models - the
Max 5300 - and along with several AudoPrism Quiet Line
plug-ins (about $25.00/each) - and my audio system is absolutely silent when not playing music.
I should mention that I did look into some of the Monster
Power Units; and thought that the new Panamax units were
of better build quality. I might also mention that the
wholesaler that I bought my unit from - I'm in the media
industry and buy my media & accessories wholesale - says
the Panamax is a much better unit. They get far fewer
returns of Panamax units vs. Monster.

Psychic, I suppose you would approve of an API like I have, since it's isolation transformer based. The first generation (non-Ultra) 114, 115 or 116 models should suffice for Rigo's system at around $300 used. But tell us, since Tice won't, what in the hell is TPT?! (I'm naturally suspicious of anything that must remain a *secret*, especially with cryptic acronymns attached...)

Those switches (two of them) on the Vansevers Reference conditioners that "don't do anything" are transient impedance switches. They are for tweeking the transients of the high and mid treble. It is one of those things you won't notice right away, or maybe ever, if you don't know what they do, and you don't know what you are listening for. With most conditioners you get whatever the designer thinks is right, which usually ends up being an average of what will work pretty well with most systems. Mike Vansevers lets you tweek the highs to more closely fit your system and your personal taste. The change is not huge, but still noticeable. Same goes with his Pandora power cords. One more toy for us to play around with.

I have the feeling the Tice "TPT" is similar to Adcom's new patented "ILS" technology. "ILS" really is just surge protection. It stands for "If Lightning Strikes". Probably dreamed up by the marketing department to justify the big price increase over the old models.