Best power conditioner?

When you request info re. BEST--- there's a lot of room. If your ears and system are up to it I recommend the brand I use. This, after trying MANY, Inc. Monster,Chang,Audio Magic-(2 dif. models) and many other pricy ones. Monster,(AVS200) and Tripp ;-- not to much help 4me. The brand I use is a "whole-system" conditioner. It has 6 duplex outlets. Oh' the good news--only $3800-- Right now on new today there's a used one--$2400--not mine nor a friend of mine.
One hard task is my Mitsubitsi 65'w/ 9" guns, CRT,tv. All the mid priced ones did zip for pic.quality. This one does video picture and audio quality at the same time; all being on at the same time.I run CJ8 mono block and the music doesn't get better if the tv gets turned off/nor does the pic. degrade when the amps go on.-- I have no idea but I would guess there might be something better--but I would guess it be more $$.---Post what you got if you want. Otherwise don't ask for best---ask for best in your price range.

I would recommend Sound Applications, they are a bit pricey, but the moment I heard it in my system I was sold.

How much they help will depend onthe quality of the power you have. Sometimes lower end gear can benifit a lot because they have lower quality power supplies. Try one out on CD, DAC & pre-amp. Amps usually work best plugged direct in the wall. Some units say they don't current limit. That is what you want on your amps if possible. Get rid of all cheap power strips.

Check out the Adept Response by Audience. The best conditioner I have yet heard and I have heard many.

Dedicated circuits help a lot, but how much they help depends on the environment. Today inner city and suburban areas all have RF issues, but they are greater in inner city areas.

You can't do much about the condition of the transformers and lines to your house or the meter on your house. But from that point on, you can control it.

My DVD player, a modest and aging Pioneer DV-47A, produces quite decent sound and picture quality with my new dedicated circuits, power conditioners and SRA isolation system. The improvement over the undedicated circuits and my 1980s vintage sound organization stands is amazing.

My dedicated circuit begins on the house side of my meter where power is divided into a 100-amp circuit serving only the AV system and a 200-amp circuit serving the rest of the house.

100-amp circuit begins with the best commercial 100-amp breaker Square D makes and feeds into an 85-foot run of 0-awg armored BX copper cable cooked and cryo'd by Virtual Dynamics. The 0-awg added greatly to the cost but we used it because the run is so long we wanted a heavy enough wire to prevent loss of voltage. The 0-awg terminates into a Square D QO breaker box which distributes 5 AV circuits of 10-awg armored BX copper cable cooked and cryo'd by Virtual Dynamics, one for each of the mono blocks, one for digital sources, one for analog and one for the projector. The receptacles are Hubble hospital grades cooked and cryo'd by Virtual Dynamics. With all of this the quality of the power available to the system is pretty good.

Because we live in one of the lightning capitals of the world though, we still need top drawer power conditioners with the best surge protection circuits available. We chose the Transparent line for 2 reasons, first because it is among those that do not limit power and second because its surge protection circuits react in pico seconds rather than mere nanoseconds. The surge protection circuits were the reason we chose Transparent over the other conditioners that do not limit power.

Together with the resonance isolation properties of the SRA racks and amp stands, the result is a completely silent background from which the music springs, wonderfully rich low level detail, extended decay of notes and a wide, deep soundstage. Video images are free from noise as well (digital artifacts from the cable -- less from the DVD player -- are another matter).