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Power Conditioner deleterious to digital sources?

I bought a power conditioner (meant for for the manufacture of chips, where stable voltage and absence of AC hash, and DC leakage from the mains is mandatory). I tried plugging in both pre-amplifier and CDP into it, and it was awful: the sound took on a compressed, walkman-like, sound. Soundstage was all gone, replaced by a muffled signature. I removed the pre-amp from it, and much of the magic is back.

My question is: do power conditioners generally help digital sources?
Maybe I need to ProGold5 the contacts or something.

Thank you...

benny
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sugarbrie
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Yes, Yes, Yes, issolate the digital source from everything else, especially the preamp. It is the most dirty thing in most systems. Plugging them both into the same thing does not accomplish much if anything.

Some conditioners have a specific digital plug to issolate that source.

There is a cheap issolation device call a Pac-Idos. It is not a conditioner; it just issolates the digital from the rest of the system.
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