Please keep me out of the Rabbit Hole - Power Strips

@mclinnguy I'm super curious myself.  I don't doubt Shunyata, considering they are the creators.  But I am wondering if sometimes the engineer's intention gets lost on the way to marketing/customer service. 

I appreciate your curiosity on this matter.  Because yea I've always felt like XC would mean power amplifier too right?  Matter of fact I've only tried XC shunyata stuff to the power amps I've had based on the dealer recommendation.  And it never touched my Cardas parsecs.  But now I'm wondering if NR is better for power amplifiers.  And if so, maybe I misjudged the gamma and theta power cables for the power amplifier and need to try an NR with my Pass Labs amp instead!  Curious if in the case of power amps if it's an "XC or NR" kind of thing and may depend on the amplifier.  I trusted the dealer as he has worked with Shunyata for a long time and he said they recommended XC at the time for power amps.

@jrareform 

If you preferred the Parsecs over the Theta's I would be happy and leave well enough alone, as the Cardas are 1/3 the price of the Shunyata Theta's! 

But yes, curiousity usually gets in the way, that is why we are audiophiles. 

I just received and set up my Shunyata PS10 and Defender.  Their impact on sound quality was far more dramatic than I would have thought possible. (I already have had installed a whole house surge protector in our electric panel.) They have yielded a “blacker” background, better tonal qualities of instruments, better definition and clarity, and a modest improvement to the sound stage, which was already quite good—maybe “finer definition is a more precise term, without the granularity becoming distracting.  I am now hearing things in performances of favorite songs that I missed before, such as the gentle touch of a wire brush on a cymbal or snare drum.  The positive impact of these two products is far more than I anticipated.  

I was recently researching this for my son.  I came across a product line I had never heard of--Juice Goose--built in Houston.  Believe this is directed at the pro AV market.  Can find virtually no reviews.  However, there was one article on their site comparing it to a SurgeX unit and I must say the protection it affords is very impressive indeed.

I use these units primarily to afford spike protection to my gear.  I have never come across a design that does better than this modest unit it that article is to be believed.  It does use MOV's but apparently in a non-sacrificial way.  Interesting.