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How many power conditioners actually isolate components? There's very few.
That is where I disagree. ENTIRELY. Even components in your stereo produce certain amount of noise that they can share among themselves. Even if I don't have a way to explain it, the results are something else. Frankly 99.99% of peoples idea of "noise" isn't very good; they're trying to remove what they can identify as audible noise, I am trying to make the music actually sound good. Well designed equipment doesn't let apparently audible noise through very easily, but all of it is subject to all noise affecting it. The difference is in level of fatigue, tonality, attack, decay, inner resolution, and what isn't yet definable by words. Being concerned with RF and stuff that resembles tape noise is an immature understanding of power conditioning. Saying you don't have noisy mains for me is like hearing that you should treat a fever with ice baths. It sounds good based on your conception of what is going on, but the complexity of it is beyond such simple conception, show by the truth of the improvement. In fact this parallels a lot of life where people want simple answers that fit their simple comfortable ideas of how anything should work. Personally I find the attempt to fit everything into human paradigm, as if we can mold the world to our simple understandings and never learn anything new, repugnant. It undermines the beautiful complexity and wonderment of everything, which we are able to appreciate over time with openness to understand in new ways. We should be ready to accept to be proven wrong on very fundamental ideas, because it will happen.
It's all important, because it's all a system. But the fact is that the type of speaker you choose will determine what other choices you can make - for example, if you get an Apogee, you'd better have an arc-welder SS amp to drive them. On the other hand, get something like the Gedlee Abbeys or the GR Research V1 or V2, and you can use a much smaller fully Class A amp to drive them. Even low powered tube amps are an option. So the speakers influence your amp choice. Everything else is very important also, but those things come second after you've figured out your speakers and amps.
Each to his own I would not waste my money on a power conditioner, not necessary. I have very sensitive components i.e. Spectral Audio Pre & Power amp and they work very well without help from power conditioning. The only thing I have noticed making a lot of noise in my setup is the Rega Ios phonostage, this I easily fixed by moving the turntable power supply away from the phonostage.The money saved by not having a power conditioner can be put towards better speaker cables, interconnects etc far more beneficial.Power conditioner, power cables etc all I can say about that is snake oil but if it works for you go for it.
Well the Montreal folks of UHF magazine says it all starts with the SOURCE. That is the PRIME limiting factor. Bad source and its game over before you start. Next would be speakers as they are the transducers of electricity to sound waves and speakers influence the amp choice.If people like controlled directivity, then they should be mentioning the Gradient Helsinki ($6K new). Weird looking but when paired with their specialist subs or even cheaper with some TBI Magellans, then for $9K new, that is a "transduction" system. I saw a great condition 2nd hand one from Toronto for $3K a couple months back. Also, if you can afford more, you could look at Servo-subs as well, but I am partial to TBI.
This is interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ