Monomer wrote:The furman did nothing to save anything plugged in. It is nothing more then a surge strip thats rackmountable.
True, but Furman does make a true voltage regulator that would have saved your gear. I have one, but only bother to use it when the AC is questionable.
Throwing in my 2 cents, my Furman PLX seems to do little to nothing for my Dj rig, however in my home theater the Monster Power 3500 seems to dropped out a lot of noise. Everything seems tighter visually and acoustically with it. Next time I throw in some new gear I will try an A-B test against the Furman.
I have also compared APC S20 and Richard Greys something or other (its been a while) and the APC outperformed it. This was a blind test with a couple of us, it was how the boss decided if we should carry/use gear, vote on what we saw/heard. Pretty fun to play with custom AV stuff for hours on end sometimes.
I believe there is some merit to them, maybe not so much on the pro-audio side since detail is traded for SPL. IMHO
2x T39, 1x T60, 1x THTLP, 1x AT(not built by me) 6x DR250
I need more bass
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subharmonic wrote: however in my home theater the Monster Power 3500 seems to dropped out a lot of noise. Everything seems tighter visually and acoustically with it.
I believe there is some merit to them, maybe not so much on the pro-audio side since detail is traded for SPL. IMHO
In a home setting you ( usually ) have a much lower noise floor than a live audience.
A big improvement in my home sound was putting my system on a dedicated power line.
There are no other noise sources or anything to affect to mains and it resulted in a noticeable improvement along the lines as you described.
Monomer wrote:The furman did nothing to save anything plugged in. It is nothing more then a surge strip thats rackmountable.
True, but Furman does make a true voltage regulator that would have saved your gear. I have one, but only bother to use it when the AC is questionable.
Good point, but things fluctuate. You won't catch it in time during a gig. Anytime long extension cords or generators are involved I like the peace of mind the voltage regulator provides. In most cases it stays at home.
subharmonic wrote:in my home theater the Monster Power 3500 seems to dropped out a lot of noise.
If it did that means that the gear being used is suspect. High quality gear has all the 'conditioning' and noise reduction it needs built in.
Not sure what level I need to be at, I use Onkyo 700 series receivers for the last 6 years 701 then a 703 is my current one. I think they sound sweet. Sources were cheapo pioneer, then Onkyo 501? DVD player, then Xbox 360 also. I always thought Onkyo was a good midrange unit.
The gear we tested with the Richard Grey and APC unit was Integra gear (Onkyo's version of Lexus) at the office/shop. Maybe there is an inherent issue with their power supplies that they need a conditioner as all had some degree of improvement.
Too bad I would need to cut a load of plaster to get a dedicated line to my current location, would like to there is a lot of outlets on this circuit.
2x T39, 1x T60, 1x THTLP, 1x AT(not built by me) 6x DR250
I need more bass
But this gal's built like a burlap bag full of bobcats CW Mcall
