Does a good power conditioner reduce need for power supply upgrade?


Would like to hear Agoner’s opinion on this topic.  It appears to me that power conditioning as a part of power distribution role for your whole system, and high end external power supplies designed to either replace and beef up internal linear supplies (e.g. Naim approach) or to replace cheap switching wall warts or internal supplies supporting a single piece of equipment have a similar function, that being to reduce noise without restricting current.

Interested in what you think.

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Like so many things in this hobby there appears to be no simple answer to power conditioning. And apparently there are various types of power problems that can be addressed.

my goto reference for this is live testing done by alpha audio which you can watch where they both subjectively and objectively show that different conditioning devices work better in some situations better than others and in some devices better than others and ‘conclude’ that the results are situation dependent and you must try the specific devices in their intended places to know if or how much they will help.