Best power conditioner?

We'll have to recommend yours to OR/ICU's accross the globe, George!

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Cipherjuris - long ago and excellent post. The dedicated A/V circuit from the circuit breaker is a great "front end" to power conditioning. I'm in NE Florida where lightening is on the cooks short order menu.

Some strikes are hard to stop. On a partly cloudy day, I saw the freak lightening stike that hit a tree from a window I was looking out 15 feet away. It killed a 25 foot Sable palm.

It jumped from the tree over about 10 feet to an outdoor speaker, and returned through the outdoor speaker lead to blow out a 12 channel amp, 2 indoor wall volume units 80 feet away, two sets of ceiling speakers, and a variety of non-audio items.

My higher end products are now completely separated. I'm now using a lower priced reciever and multi-channel amp for the whole house. It works fine for background music.

I have a dedicated 110 and 220 for a hot tub right outside my indoor A/V area. I'm having a electrician look at converting them to a dedicated, indoor A/V circuit.

Thanks for the info.

Soundsbeyondspecs,

Sorry about Mother Nature's attack on your system - glad it did not seem to damage your high end one. I had a similar attack 2 years before I upgraded my entire electrical system, including the dedicated A/V circuits - it fried my security system, computers and all my phones, but didn't seem to touch my A/V system.

Even with my dedicated A/V circuits and 3 layers of surge protection, I still unplug my A/V equipment during thunder storms.

Best of luck to you,

ADEPT RESPONSE 6T I have had many no other line conditoner comes close raised my system to another level.

Audience AR12