Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else)

Are there any audiophile level surge suppressors that do not add any conditioning or filtering?

The best surge suppressors are low pass filters.  The low pass filters slow down the surge to give the surge suppression gear time to respond, so no, not really easy to do one and not the other.  Based on the Wirecutter articles I often quote and others, all the best surge protectors (in terms of let through voltage) include filtering.

Whole house surge protectors are important, but the let through/clamping voltage is significantly higher than a good surge protector.  I wrote about it in too much detail here.  I've been in the cross hairs of 3 different hurricanes this year and suffered power issues each time, so my sensitivity to risk is a lot higher for me than many readers here.

Welcome back Eric! Look forward to reading your posts 

Rich

https://www.btx.com/wattbox-surge-protector   This is what I have been using for all things internet and Roon, Tidal streaming 

The NEC now requires whole house surge protection on all new services 

@erik_squires ,

You down in Florida??

I've had a TrippLite and a ZeroSurge and they both negatively affected the sound. I thought I could do it on the cheap and was wrong. I've been using the Audioquest Niagara 1200 for years and the sound is cleaner with no leading edge etch and no  restrictions in soundstage or dynamics.

Although passive in design (no transformers) it still "conditions" the sound, if you want to get technical, in cleaning out the grunge and I believe, scrubs DC offset noise if present in your system, and that's where a large share of the noise can come from.

It has non sacrificial surge protection that immediately clamps down on surges, and keeps on keeping on. Garth Powell left Furman to go work for Audioquest so there's some decent engineering behind it. 

The only downside is that the price has gone way up. I paid $1,000 and now it goes for $1500. They have other models priced above and below it that supposedly do the same, or similar things but you'll have to dig deeper to find out. 

All the best,
Nonoise