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In Reply to: Power conditioners versus dedicated lines posted by Leisure7 on November 26, 2003 at 19:35:37:
I have two in my room, but despite this good filters, such as the Equi=Tech, Velocitor, Harmonix, or Sound Application can much improve the sound.
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I don't want to try to give hard and fast rules either. My limited experience with conditioners has been much less favorable, but that is in a dealership where I've tried to help my friends get the best sound from the display featuring their equipment. I've not had the chance to experiment with them myself.Multiple dedicated lines are effective at reducing interactions among components, but will only pass along incoming power problems.
My Wadia 861 gives slightly improved sound with a fancy power cord, even though it is on its own dedicated circuit. It might work better with a conditioner.
Same for me. I have 2 dedicated lines (use only one) and benefit greatly with a PLC. My BPT-2 is the first conditioner I've been able to successfully plug my power amp into.I agree with Norm about power cords too -- use a very good cord TO your PLC, like the VH Audio Type 4. As you might expect, you whole system benefits from the cord to your PLC, making it perhaps the most important.
I consider a power line conditioner to be enormously beneficial. In fact, adding the BPT was probably the 2nd most meaningful and satisfying improvement I've ever made in audio (number one was going from a Hafler 101 to a Conrad Johnson Premier 2 in the early 80s). It's been more meaningful to me than any speaker change, for example.
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