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Hello, I'm concidering purchasing a power conditioner to help clean up some of my amp humm and noise. Is it likely that this would help? Can you suggest a specific type? I don't want to accidentally buy a high dollar power strip. What type of components should I be looking for? How much should I expect to spend? Can a couple hundred dollars do the trick? Thanks for your help, Pete
I think it is not a good idea. Think in terms of what a power conditioner does; it prevents overloads and controls the release of power to the amp during times of high demand. Exactly what you don't want.
You just missed the steal of the century. Picked this up for $120, after $50 rebate. Too bad the sale has ended. Not sure it would help with your hum, but it didn't break the bank and looks a hella lot cooler than my Topaz power conditioners........Colin http://www.buy.com/prod/monster_power_hts3500mkii_10_outlet_powercenter_w_stage_3_filtering/q/loc/111/PageFormat/40/imgNum/1/90119434.html#moreimg
Peter, Are you having problems with hum or noise? If hum, the most common cause of it is ground loop and a power conditioner wouldn't help.
Just a thought. I do not think Monster unit this is a surge protector, or has filtering also does it? For about $150 you can buy a used Powervar hospital lab grade with voltage and line filtering on ebay. I have two Powervars now and a third one for my home theater coming. These filter and offer excellent protection since they were designed for high end sensitive laboratory equipment. These Powervars still sell new for ~$1200 for the model 12 that I have. They are a steal at around $200 used. For my audio system I added an additional level of dedicated line filtering for my two pairs of tube mono block amps into these Powervars. The background noise level dropped down to next to nothing. I have very sensitive 6' tall 2-way horn speakers at over 100dB efficient with 1 Watt at 1 Meter. Just another suggestion is all. John