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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So the German one is the Inakustik AC-3500P (which I was almost going to buy, I just had a little more money to squirrel away for it)
Then I was in contact with an Agon member, who I asked what he has, he shared and as I was already interested in the Inakustic saw the value in the Puritan.

Puritan PSM156

As for the Niagara products, I have only ever read or been told good things about them also. For me the price / performance was a best fit for my budget was the Puritan.
I have been introduced to a new type of power conditioner, the first of it’s type I saw was from Germany. However the second one, introduced to me by an Agon member is the one I purchased, is from England.

The one I purchased has two transformers in parallel to support the current load, and it has protection from power spikes, nothing too different here.

Then it has capacitors in the circuit that effectively remove DC from the AC.
Individual for each outlet.
Then there is in the shunt to ground off the AC sine wave. This filter has individual inductors on each outlet that are a high pass filter then in parallel with both the active and another for the neutral short energy back to ground.
What does that mean? Frequencies interpolated in the AC sine wave that are riding on the alternating current are shorted to the ground wire back to the box. The path of least resistance isn’t into your bridge rectifier, stiffening caps, linear regulator, it’s back to ground.

There’s no current limiting, the current carrying conductors are still only added to in parallel, and this draws away the nasty hash from the alternating current.
Others have also commented on the incredible difference it has made.
Being USD$2400 it was cheaper than the German made device, with individual filtering for each output device, so no chance of noisy devices affecting another.

Thank you Agon, for the free advice and the best conditioner I have heard or used.

I have a Datasat RA-2400 that’s a two by 400watts @ 8Ohm amplifier, my TV (I use it as a monitor), HDPlex 200W linear power supply (for my fanless PC server), DAC and the MCP thing for my Synergistic Research Master Coupler X2 20A power cord feeding it - all running through the device. It performs perfectly, and the system is cleaner with no loss of power that I can hear.
@cakyol - I sincerely wished you were correct in the case of my particular system, that it would make no significant positive difference.
However, I cannot simply go back, it does sound better.. it just does.

And it's not just my amplifier plugged into it, everything is.

I had a quick look at the first power supply (sorry it's late and I need to hit the hay as I work tomorrow) and didn't see the technology I spoke of in it.
After the transformers I didn't see any inductors?? I didn't see the second circuit sorry.

I am sure there are some exceptional filtering circuits in high end gear, I guess mine isn't that high end and the conditioner helped?
Something like YMMV?