Power Conditioners


Not sure if I placed it in the correct topic but here goes. I was just wondering how power conditioners work, as I want to buy one. There are conditioners with only filtered inputs and conditioners with some filtered inputs and some unfiltered. I believe the unfiltered ones are for analogue devices. But why should these go into the unfiltered part? If I buy a power conditioner for example with only filtered inputs, will I not be able to put my class A amp in? Or will it have a negative effect?
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Showing 1 response by lostinseattle

I looked at the Shunyata Research Venom Defender AC Power Line Reducer and even though I have worked in AC power systems I can't begin to tell what it does (or might do).  I am not trolling or trying to thread crap.

My question for all of you who have purchased these (what I consider to be questionable and esoteric) power "conditioning" products, is this:  have you tried just a UPS that produces perfect sine wave power?  Seems like that would deal with all the potential issues you might have including voltage fluctuation, line noise from other (non-audio) connected devices, etc.  Plus, it would in all likelihood be much cheaper and quite possibly provide surge protection (though I'm not certain about that).