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Power Conditioner Advice please...

I would be grateful for advice from the forum with regard to the following:

My system sounds significantly better in the evening/night than during the day and given that I live in a busy commercial area it would seem likely that I need to clean up the power. 

Ultimately, I will buy an AC regenerator but do not currently have the budget for that. I am therefore looking at a power conditioner and which I hope to buy pre-owned for under $/£1,000.

Given my amps draw a large wattage (peak 400w into 4ohms) I am nervous about placing a conditioner between them and the mains.

The other components:

1.     Auralic Aries - has its own external linear power supply.

2.     DEQX  -  “Nine separate power-supply regulation stages  including four that provide the main analog rails deliver extremely low measured distortion....”

Where do you think I would be best to apply any power conditioning?

Any other suggestions welcomed.

Thanks very much

soma70

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inna
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This is an excellent conclusion - power cords first. Exactly.
inna
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dc-bruce, thank you, very educational.
inna
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Yeah, power management, including power cords, is complicated and should be tailored to a particular application. In some ways more than the rest of the system. Great interconnect will sound at least very good with anything, even RCA.
inna
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First you need to find out if the voltage fluctuates wildly. Where I live it does from 116V to 127V, American current, so I have to use the regenerator. If the voltage is stable you don't really need a regenerator, only very good passive conditioner and power cords, including the cord from the wall to the conditioner.
My PS Audio Premier spends too much energy for itself when it has to correct the voltage a lot and/or when the current is particularly dirty, and as a result the dynamics suffers. However, without it the system is unlistenable in the daytime and early evening. And I mean it, it becomes a big boombox. Newer P5 and P10 are said to be better.
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