Power Distribution

I has at a demonstration at a high end dealership that had an extremely expensive dedicated panel and multiple independent runs into his audition rooms.  Even with that kind of setup, power conditioning was helpful.  A demonstration by Isotek showed how much noise came in on those dedicated runs and how effective their conditioners were at attenuating the noise (measured with a meter).  There was no noise that could be heard from any of the gear in the rooms, even without conditioning, but with conditioning in the system, the performance improved, particularly the sense of individual instruments being free of one another and located in a natural space/setting.  It is hard to explain, but, the sound was just a bit more natural.  The good news is that most of the improvement can be had with the Isotek power strips; they include some form of filtering.  The more substantial conditioners are better, but only slightly better and at a much steeper price.