If your amp is pulling all the power from the conditioner, the conditioner is limiting your amp. It is too small and will always be too small. Your best bet is to plug everything EXCEPT the amp into it.
Power amp in conditioner bad for other components?
I recently replaced the combination of a 2-outlet BrickWall strip and a 4-outlet Richard Gray unit with an Audience aR6. I have a Benchmark AHB2 power amplifier, a Benchmark HPA4 preamplifier (frequently use headphones), a phono preamp, a CD player, a DAC, and a streamer. Benchmark recommends against plugging the amp into any power conditioner. One reason given is that the current draw from the amp can rob the other components of power on peaks. I have a single duplex outlet on a dedicated line. What is puzzling me is how, given that they are all on the same circuit, with a passive conditioner, plugging the amp directly into one of the two outlet sockets vs. into one of the aR6's sockets would result in less robbery. Thanks for considering this possibly stupid question. I'm not an electrician, electrical engineer, etc. I've tried both, but not in a blind test. There's probably not much point in reporting my subjective, sighted impressions of the perceived differences. Unless someone really wants to know. The power cord on the amplifier is an Audience f5, as is the power cord on the aR6. I will say that replacing a DIY Belden power cord (made long ago by Bolder Cables) on the amplifier with the f5 cord resulted in a noticeable (non-blind, etc.) improvement in dynamics, etc., either direct to the wall or into the aR6.
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