Clean power is very important for good sound quality. How important depends on how noisy your electrical environment is. If you get this right then room correction/control, vibration and rfi/emf control being the other battles you need to fight.
If you want to hear how you might benefit from a power conditioner listen to your familiar tracks then go to your consumer unit and turn off as much of the rest of your house as you dare. If you have stuff on the same ring as the music system unplug anything you can too. Now listen again. If you hear a good improvement then you can benefit from a power conditioner.
Cakyol please try this too. Modern electrics can be very noisy indeed. All those switch mode power supplies for our phones, tablets , routers, ethernet switches.... noisy. LEDs noisy especially if you have dimmable ones. This noise can be well outside of audible frequencies so may not always be measurable at the output of a DAC but this can play havoc with soundstage.
Eriks blog is a cost effective solution. I went for 2nd hand Isotek Sigmas gen 2 and DIY DC blocking power cord.
If you want to hear how you might benefit from a power conditioner listen to your familiar tracks then go to your consumer unit and turn off as much of the rest of your house as you dare. If you have stuff on the same ring as the music system unplug anything you can too. Now listen again. If you hear a good improvement then you can benefit from a power conditioner.
Cakyol please try this too. Modern electrics can be very noisy indeed. All those switch mode power supplies for our phones, tablets , routers, ethernet switches.... noisy. LEDs noisy especially if you have dimmable ones. This noise can be well outside of audible frequencies so may not always be measurable at the output of a DAC but this can play havoc with soundstage.
Eriks blog is a cost effective solution. I went for 2nd hand Isotek Sigmas gen 2 and DIY DC blocking power cord.