One of the alleged benefits of power conditioners is to minimize the effects of interference from outside influences, and reduce noise as much as possible. Your separate circuit should help, but you never know about cell towers, radio transmitters, BT, wifi, dimmer switches, and such. Many variables involved, so it’s hard to know what, if any benefit there will be without trying. A blacker background is one of those revelations you won’t realize until you hear it.
I’m running a Lightspeed CSL3200 that I picked up dirt cheap. There have been so many minor changes since installing it that I can’t honestly say the CSL3200 is helping, but the system sounds better than ever, and I have no urge to pull out to check.
Please keep me out of the Rabbit Hole - Power Strips
I am finishing a new piece of furniture to contain all of my audio gear. I need a total of 10 electrical outlets. I can not spend much on the power strip at this time but I want to make sure that I do no harm. I have heard that cheaping out on things like power conditioning, surge protection, etc... can result in treatments that can cause other issues. When I renovated the house I did install a dedicated 20 amp circuit for this main outlet. My gear is perfectly quiet. Thoughts or Suggestions welcome.
My Gear;
Aragon 4004 mkII Amp
Aragon 24k Preamp
Aragon 10T2 Tuner
Linn LP 12
Linn Linto Phono Preamp
Eversolo A6
SMSL PL200T CD Transport
Topping D70 Pro Octo DAC
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The Furman Elite 20i has 20 Amp plug and sockets. It's a complete choice, unless you know you have unstable power and want to stabilize it. |
I second the choice of Furman. The main thing you want is something that is constructed well out of quality materials. Several tests have shown that power strips do not help the signal in any way - they can only degrade it. A cheap power strip could actually limit current to an amplifier, for example. |
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