surge protection & noise?


I had my treasured ARC CD 3 fail (as Well as the Noise Harvester that was on the same outlet) and had to have 5 power supply caps replaced, I now have a Shunyata Venom Defender protecting it. Since my budget is shoe sting (right now) I have an inexpensive surge protector on the outlet for my integrated amp and also have a PS Audio Noise Harvester plugged in to it, which leads to my question. Prior to surge/spike protection my Noise Harvester would light up like a light being on (and this would happen on both outlets) but since putting the Shunyata & the surge/spike protector in I still get noise being filtered from the line BUT, the Noise Harvester DOES NOT light up anymore on a constant basis as it once did. Sure it does blink and at times rapidly but again nothing that even resembles what used to happen. The sound hasn't seemed to have changed, well not degraded that is, it sounds as good or better now, could the surge/spike protectors be making the differences or might there be a different explanation? I could use some helpful opinions, Thanks
rsjm80

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Kijanki, Thank you for helping with an explanation, that helps me more. I know about MOVs and what I have also been interested in was the units from Audience as they are like the Furman (I didn't know that Furman was built like that).
Since I use an Integrated and my CD only that's why I'm looking for single outlet units(plus it would be exponental expense getting a multipul outlet unit for me. Filtering makes a huge difference as does vibration control and room tuning all of what I have learned. Thank you for your suggesting Furman as I have also heard Brick Wall uses this type of protection (if I'm right) too and maybe the future will let me find money enough to invest (once and for all) in something that will do my full job for me.