Help with purchase of power conditioner

Looks like someone was Psyched out by what they saw. The Vansevers Digital 12 is a small one outlet conditioner to issolate a digital component. How complicated can it get? Mike Vansevers takes a lot of time voicing his conditioners by trying different parts and employing resonance modifying technigues. He picks the parts and techniques he uses based solely on how they sound, not how cool and expensive they look. All of his outlets and some of the other electric parts are cryogenically treated. This cost money as well.

The Tice, Chang, etc are all fine. But I guess if cool looks matter to you, then get the Monster conditioners. They are colorful and have lots of flashing, lights and switches.

There are conditioners loaded with all kinds of fancy electronic parts that attempt to filter the power. They look real impressive, but they also choke off the power and limit dymanics. The reason why many of us go with dedicated lines, instead of conditioners, is we want clean power with nothing blocking path. Less is more.

For that amount of money, be looking at Monster Power Condiotioners. I used the 5000 model for some time and was happy with it. You can pick that up used for roughly 300. There is another less expensive model that got good reviews (better reviews than the 5000) but I forget which one that was. Check www.audioreview.com for reviews.

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I hate to ask a dumb question, but here it goes, what all does a power conditioner do?

Psyched out for a capacitor? No. It's the "switch" that doesn't switch anything in or out, and is just a bundle of wires running in parallel...

Like shampoos and cosmetics, the case is the most expensive component!

Isolation transformers will get you much farther--I recently bought a 3000W ONEAC 220V beast for less than what a Vans Evers ref 12 costs...

Sorry Rigo, I don't mean to confuse you, but I've been heavily studying and practicing this topic and consider myself qualified to speak up. If you get a $55 Power Var and a Tice A/V Solo you'll get really decent HT performance. The TPT treatment *does* increase depth in TV picture--give it a shot.

Regards,

The Psychic

I would seriously look into some of the new line of Panamax
Power Conditioners. I have one of the newer models - the
Max 5300 - and along with several AudoPrism Quiet Line
plug-ins (about $25.00/each) - and my audio system is absolutely silent when not playing music.
I should mention that I did look into some of the Monster
Power Units; and thought that the new Panamax units were
of better build quality. I might also mention that the
wholesaler that I bought my unit from - I'm in the media
industry and buy my media & accessories wholesale - says
the Panamax is a much better unit. They get far fewer
returns of Panamax units vs. Monster.