Hey clark, I'm no expert, but from what Anand said the Emotiva unit had good filtering in it, so I would expect it to sound good. My questions are only from the protection side, which may or may not be a concern to you or others. No, Emotiva doesn't build good surge protection into their gear, no one does. They don't want you to use power strips for other reasons. As noted, I'm no expert in these matters, but learned a ton right here at AC on the Power Conditioning circle. I know you like to add to your knowledge base, as you're always doing so, I'll bet you could get a great basic foundation on power conditioning just by reading as many of the threads there as possible. Might I gently and politely as possible suggest it's a better place to get info than Emotiva's website? Hope this find you well and listening with pleasure.