If you have a line conditioner, does noise matter?


I have Belkin, BPT and Brick line conditioners. I have a friend that says his electricity is "noisy" due to garbage on the ac lines and he claims that he can not listen during peak times and can only listen late at night.

My understanding of these various line conditioners is that they control spikes and brown outs to keep the volts at 120 +-. Shouldn't this take care of the ac "noise" on the lines allowing only the music to flow through unimpeded?
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03-10-11: Magfan
It would be wacky expensive, but couldn't a motor driven Variac be used to automatically control output voltage to 120, or whatever desired?
Not expensive at all. I have this one (not in my audio system), which I once had occasion to use experimentally. Only $119. Just one problem, though -- it is absurdly noisy every time it decides to run the motor, which was every few minutes at my location.

Best regards,
-- Al