Experience with power conditioners

Gandme, Dedicated lines help minimize AC noise induced by appliances and dimmers in your home and help ensure that your amplifier is getting all the juice it needs for those dynamic and/or complex passages.

But dedicated lines will not cleanse the bi-directional digital noise from making it's way back to the service panel and back into the dedicated lines to your other components. Nor will dedicated lines cleanse the dirty/noisy AC everybody (yes everybody) gets from the street and power station.

Robertje, You might consider the Foundation Research LC-1 and LC-2 passive and dedicated bi-directional in-line power conditioners.

Marty DeWulf of Bound for Sound rated these line conditioners the best he's heard back in the Aug. 03 issue and purchased the review samples for his 'big rig'. But that review was for the original versions. The new versions is simply multiple times better than the old.

-IMO

Short of a full tilt power regenerator, which is going to be pretty darn expensive for a very limited amount of current with a lot of heat generated, a heavy core high current low capacitance Iso will get you the most bang for the buck. I think that Bob's comments basically confirm his experience with smaller individual toroidal based designs being far less effective. Parallel line filtration, like in the Hydra, can also work well, but work best at the individual component level in conjunction with a a very high grade, high current iron core isolation tranformer that filters the system as a whole. This is just my opinion based on research and experimentation though, so take that for what it is worth. Sean
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PS... Bob, check your system thread. I just found that based on your comments here and have some ideas that may help you out.

I know everybody says this is all system dependent.--- My system went up several notches with the Adept Response---From my perspective I can't see this NOT HELPING--- but that's just me.(I live in a 95 unit complex)

I found myself in the same boat several months ago. My system just seemed to be lacking sound quality in comparison to the same equipment I demoed at my local dealer. I had already spent big bucks on a Parasound HCA 2205 yet I was still disappointed with the sound. At that point I was considering buying new speakers. Instead I thought back as to how my dealer had their equipment hooked up. Sure enough I recalled Monster Cable power conditioning equipment being used. So I went ahead a splurged on yet more equipment. Power conditioning equipment made my budget system sound magical. It improved the sound quality across the board while lowering the noise floor. I literally pulled out old movies and watched them again listening for those details I had missed for such a long time. I stand amazed and wonder how many upgrades in speakers and equipment changes I would have gone through had I not made this change first. Many may disagree as to the quality of Monster Cabe gear but I'm Lov'in it! Think about it this way as you review types of equipment used in budget and high end system as reviewed in many audio/video magazines. Do they use power conditioning equipment when they put together systems for their clients? You bet they do! I can't recall one that did'nt.

I agree with Fathertime (how can you not agree with someone called Fathertime?). I recently had to address the shortage of outlets for my components. I thought about various products, from Shunyata to PS Audio and Monster. I ended up buying the Monster AVS2000 Voltage stabilizer. I know this seems like an overindulgent way to solve this problem, but I had a good reason. I have arc welders on the corner of my block. When they fire up their mig and tig machines, power delivery to my apartment suffers in grand fashion. City life. Luckily, it's mostly during the day when I'm not home. With the AVS 2000 I'm noticing a clearer, more concise sound across the board. I'm still A/B'ing the unit, but so far I like it alot. At the moment I have my CD player and DAC / Preamp plugged into it. The amp is plugged into the wall. My preliminary tests with the amp suggest that channel separation / soundstaging is better with the amp going through the AVS2000, but dynamics might be slightly better with the amp plugged into the wall.

Cheers.