Power Cords/ Conditioner/Surge Protectors

I have owned Moon equipment. Definitely high end audio cords will definitely improve the sound. It is very likely that a power conditioner will help as well. There are occasional instances of power conditioning has not helped... but they are really infrequent. Alway has made a big difference to my. 

On your SIM gear, I recommend warm sounding power cords and interconnects. Thinking Cardas may be the best for you. Simm is not warm at all, and can benefit from Cardas. If you want budget DHLabs, but I really thing you want warm.  

For power conditioning I recommend Shunyata and Isotek. As close to top of the line as you can. It will impact all your components except the amp (direct into the wall).

If you can two direct lines will add a very cost effective improvement. One for the power conditioner and components, one for the amp. 

Shunyata power cords are good, but in the high end ones not the inexpensive ones. 

This video from Shunyata explains why the "last six feet can’t mater" argument is wrong. The question comes up at about 9 minutes and 30 seconds in. 

Does Nelson Pass supply his $$$$ amplifier with fancy cables? Nope. Just a thought.

@bigtwin, @facten 

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It's not the dirty power it's the low voltage and surges that destroy audio equipment.look at furman make sure it has lft and surge protection.our power goes out once a week in the rocky Mountains. The engineered left  furman and went to audioquest making the niagra series.you can watch the interview on  upscale audio that Kevin did. I wish I could plug them into the wall directly but I live on a grid that is dangerous.i don't get what I pay for. I have the furman 20 I and niagra 7000 and shunyata.they are all rated at 20 amps and the furman and niagra have capicitors that give 60 plus amps in reserve for transients.enjoy the search.i would go surge protection first the cabel company let's you try cables out.you would have to call them.good luck 

Nearly all surge suppressors use MOV's.

MOV's fail silently with no warning. They go bad from repeated micro-surges. It is recommended by many that you replace your surge suppressors every year or 2 depending on where you live.

I lost $14,000.00 worth of AVR, BD player, and projector to a failed surge suppressor. The worst part is that I knew that they can fail silently, and did nothing about it.

Retail wise, my amps are $13K, my preamp $18K, my DAC $6K, and my digital front end ~$5K.

Being older and wiser now, I spent the money of ZeroSurge suppressors. I have 3 of them. 1 dedicated to the projector, 1 for the AVR, BD player, and a big one with isolated outlets for the 2 channel system (about $600.00 for this one alone).

I will never trust my expensive stuff to a MOV suppressor again unless I replace it yearly. You can buy yourself an expensive audiophile one that will fail silently just like any random one off Amazon, or you can get one that will never fail.

Do some research on the tech behind any device you are considering. I was one of those people who said "been using MOV's for years, never had a problem" until I did.

Also, the Zerosurge also works as an extremely good filter. Others have reported good luck with them when used as a filter, and I have not hear any reports of them "sucking the life out of the music" like you hear with most filters. My electricity is pretty clean, I heard only a very slight improvement in quality.

-Josh