Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Power line conditioner + surge protector

It's all in your head, Charles; it's now an omnipresent ear worm .

I bought the Belkin PF30 last month for $60 at Buy.com.
They have the PF60 right now for ~$208.

Since I live on an older house with old wiring, I've especially noticed an improvement in the sound from the FIOS TV.

Roberto,

I had a Belkin PF60. It did a great job for the cost. If you need 6 outlets or less, consider a Blue Circle Peed Al Sea Thingee - review here:

http://www.goodsound.com/equipment/blue_circle_peed_al_sea.htm

Monster/Belkin/Furman approach AC filter with a combination of chokes, transformers, ferrite cores and capacitors. The Blue Circle approach relies purely on capacitor filtering and does not limit current on any of its outlets. The outlets are Hubbell and very high quality.

I have mine sitting behind my gear. It is probably the best buy I made for my system.

+1.

eCost, PF60, a couple of years ago. I snagged it on sale for like $150 or so.

As far as I can tell, it makes no difference in sound quality. But it does eliminate the occasional and nearly inaudible 'tick' or 'snap' that I'd get through my speakers whenever the clothes dryer, room AC, or neighbor's HVAC system (we share a transformer on the pole) kicked on and my system was on but not playing audio. So it does actually "clean" the power for me, better than my old 'surge protector' did. Note the quotes around clean. All I know is that it is a benefit in my system in my current home.

Also importantly, I like it for cable organization. It just looks a bit neater behind the AV Rack with it than without it. And it just generally looks cool. Who doesn't love a heavy metallic box with blue lights & an ever-changing LCD display in their AV Rack?

It is interesting to see how many amps my system is pulling when I do different things. And also interesting to see how much my home voltage varies from minute to minute. Power in my town is notoriously variable, plus I live in an old house (set up for GAS lighting), in a neighborhood of old homes. So yeah, I feel like I need to have some sort of 21st century barrier between my electronics and my wall.

So should also take a look at APC, i have the H10 and it juste sit there and work very well.

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=H10

I second APC. I bought an H15 from Audioholics a while back.