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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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Furman Elite is an excellent choice if you want a bit of filtering and protection. I have a Gryphon Powerzone and no, the Furman is not comparable but I’m perfectly happy to use it in other places and I own multiple units for my video systems. It always does a good job and is particularly effective at improving my OLED TV, both picture quality and sound via a soundbar. This is just from plugging the Google streamer and tv into it, not even the soundbar - it must improve the quality of the Dolby/DTS stream over eARC. |
@audiostick I changed my stock cord to an ICE AGE 20 amp cord, which it's well built to my 20-PFI & didn’t notice any upgrade. Hope this helps. |
@audiostick Yes, I have witnessed the improvement more than once, but not on a Furman but a Puritan. I read that is the biggest power cable upgrade you can make, as it just doesn’t improve one component it improves them all, and they were right. First when upgrading from the stock classic 20 amp power cable that comes stock with the Puritan PSM156 to the Ultimate power cord. And the same benefit in almost the same magnitude was witnessed again going from the Ultimate Puritan power cable to the Shunyata Sigma V2 (with the PSM156). This was with a dedicated line with 10ga romex. I am not going to use any adjectives or descriptors, you have to hear it yourself to understand. And no, I am not going to get anything more expensive than the Sigma- that is enough money spent on a power cord! (bought it pre-owned though) Do some research and reading- search in Audiogon and read the reports from the hundreds of others who have experienced this years before I did. But, and I don’t know how big of a but this is, if you are wondering if changing from the stock Furman $10 cord to a $100 cord on a $2000 hi fi is going to yield the same benefit as some of what you read, from me and others, you may be disappointed. |
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