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Line Conditioner:To plug or not to plug Big Amp in

Hello.
I am on the market for a line conditioner, the Belkin Pure AV PF60 seems to me is a good bargain.

I have both vintage Threshold and PASS Labs power amps.

What attracted me to the Belkin PureAV PF60 is that it has an isolation plug outlet for Hi-Current power amps.

Can you hook up a Threshold power amp like an SA/4e or Pass Labs 350.5 >into the Belkin PureAV PF60 or any line conditioner ? Or is the power amp with high current too
much for the Belkin? Both these amplifier have tremendous amp pull. Especially the Threshold SA/4e pure class A amp. Which is an incredible power amp by the way

Had tried other conditioners in the past with different power amps years ago and it did not work out. Either the line conditioner started to hum or reset. Or the power amp would sound thinned out it was not worth it.

I want protection on my Threshold and Pass labs amp. Currently plugging power amps directly to the wall.

Questions ??? :

Is there anybody familiar with the Belkin PureAv PF60 line conditioner ? Can it support a big hungry power amp ? Or am I just better off plugging my power amps directly into the wall and cross my fingers. Can a sudden loss of electricity hurt your equipment while your listening to it ?

I want protection but at the same time don't want to diminish my sound greatly. My electric is average as a suburb should. Once in awhile loss of electric like most people. No major logistic problems like some with the bad surges or electrical storms. Which I just unplug my equipment to be safe.

Thank you so much to all who help.
Joe
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knownothing
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Has anybody tried the Belkin PF-60 with moderate to high power audiophile amplifiers? I am using a PureAV PF-30 for a small office system and absolutely love it - cleans up grunge in very dirty AC with no apparent dynamic compression. Best bargain power conditioner I have ever used. Given over-achieving little brother, wondering how well the PF-60 works for high current applications?

Comments above are all theoretical - anybody actually try this thing?
peterayer
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I have hooked up my two Pass XA.5 amps directly to the panel on two dedicated 20A circuits via two 15' runs of JPS Labs in-wall AC cable with Furutech IEC connectors. The cable goes through the floor behind each amp. There are no outlets. This direct connection resulted in a much lower noise floor. I've never had a problem with power surges. More details are on my system page.

You can call Pass Labs, but I don't think they recommend the use of power conditioners and will also discourage experimenting with different power cords, though some on this forum have reported improvements with some power cords over the stock ones.
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knownothing
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Peter, very nice system. Great power cord solution, eliminating all but connection to breaker and one IEC connector. Talk about minimalist approach.
bondmanp
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My Odyssey Audio HT3 (150 watts X 3) is plugged into my PS Audio Quintet. I do not think there is any current limiting going on. Although Klaus of Odyssey Audio prefers his amps be plugged right into the wall, the Quintet greatly lowered the noise floor and hum I got without it. I also have a whole-house surge suppressor, so I am fairly confident about surviving the vagaries of the grid.
peterayer
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Thanks Knownothing.

When I talked to JPS Labs about what I was planning to do, they suggested that I would get even better results by using a top outlet and one of their better power cords, because the cord would filter out even more noise. I never tried it because I wanted to save the money and avoid all of the connections. It sounds pretty good the way it is.
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