|   What about power conditioning/filtering etc.? | Mr Peabody
Nov 21, 2003 8:48 PM | | I have been thinking about trying some power products, I've found conditioners, filters, stablizers, alternative sign waves & I'm confused. First, has anyone used such products and with what result? Some companies claim there's no way you can have a consumer transformer large enough to possibly stablize the voltage without having a huge noisy commercial type thing. Some say these products limit current. Some companies say these products shouldn't carry surge protection. The products range from $350. to $3k with variations of what they do. I've been looking at PS Audio, Richard Gray Power Co. & Transparent. Although Transparent is new to the power game and I wonder if they are legit or are these products just to tap this new gold mine. And you can't help see Monster's products out there, which are a tenth of the price the first few are.
I use Transparent cables and connectors and have seen and heard noticeable improvements. However when you see products like these things that hold your cables off the ground and claim to improve sound, polishing cd's, trimming the edges of the cd's and other tweaks that may or may not work, I wonder where this power stuff falls. |
| re: What about power conditioning/filtering etc.? | topspeed
Nov 24, 2003 11:48 AM | | The latest TAS did a review of power conditioners and RGPC seemed to offer the best of all worlds. As you know, I'm partial to PSA myself and since they practically invented the genre, I may get one from them at some time. I have to admit that I'm pretty skeptical. However a friend who is an EE and makes Skeptic and Mtrycrafts look positively liberal put a Monster conditioner on his system and couldn't believe the difference in the video quality. I think it actually annoyed him because it shouldn't have made a dramatic difference and yet even he had to admit it did. He uses a 40" Sony XBR CRT set which has the ability to reveal differences so that could be some of it. I dunno...
BTW, hope you don't give up on the new forums. Yeah, they're a lot harder to work with but your info is always enlightening. |
| Thanks (nt) | Mr Peabody
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