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Power strips- too many choices

Out of necessity I need to use a power distributer/ strip.  I am impressed with how many options there are and how varied the reviews of the strips are; even some discussing degradation of the sound.   It seems surge protection would be valuable but cant figure out the other features.  Trying to decide between, Isotek vs Gigawatt vs PS audio.
Don't want to spend too much as there are other cabling needs pending. Further complicating the purchase; I have 7 cords and  at least per the Isotek website it seems that its best to use only one outlet lest resulting in "noise" from the outlier.  ( but isn't the idea of the strip to clean up that "noise") Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I live where we loose power about once a year due to downed trees during a storm.  When I see the wind is going to be significant I throw the stereo 20 amp breaker in the main panel.  If in fact the power does go out
then I throw a whole lot of breakers to prevent the surge from hammering appliances.  I use a PS Audio Stellar Powerplant 3 which is good for a continuous 300 watts.  Only source components are powered by it.  Amps are plugged directly into the wall.  The source components draw just under 100 watts.  And somewhat surprisingly to me that doesn't vary with volume, I did think that the tube pre would vary a bit with volume.  
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