Please keep me out of the Rabbit Hole - Power Strips

@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.