Tight budget power conditioner?

[CGabriel]

JMO - absolutely everyone should install “whole house” surge protection. All power boxes that plug into a wall outlet should be considered a secondary form of protection. All boxes, regardless of the claimed technology can and do fail and are inherently inferior to whole house surge protection. The reason? The most effective place to eliminate surges and transients from the power grid is at the electrical service entrance. Whole house surge protection is just that - it protects ALL the electronics and electrical devices in the home to include your refrigerator and kitchen applicances and your heating/ air systems. Boxes only protect the devices plugged into them. Furthermore, what most people don’t know and aren’t told is that “some” of these devices protect their connected devices by storing and reflecting transients back onto the home power circuit. So they protect the connected devices but generate a rebound transient that may damage other equipment in the home.

Protect all of your electrical devices with whole house protection. Then, address how to optimize your audio system for best performance with power distributors and power cables after that.

And make sure your expensive equipment is listed on your home insurance policy or add a rider to the policy. Then, you can sleep at night.

[crwilli]

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