Sound Application line conditioner experience?

Thanks for all the comments so far. It's interesting that there is no concensus as far as these devices go. It appears to be somewhat system dependent. I put the running springs conditioner on my old front end and at the time it was nothing short of amazing. Probably the single biggest leap in system performance I have had. Now that I have better everything (preamp, amp,cables, dedicated lines) the running springs ruins the soundstaging. There are still some elements of the sound that are better with it in place, but in general, it is better without it now. There are other line conditioner manufacturers out there, but one rarely hears much banter about them with the exception of Shunyata, which I found to not perform as well as the running springs in my system. I have seen a burmeister, nordost, accuphase, etc. Anyone try these? More thoughts on the sound application welcome as I have ordered one to demo. BTW the price has gone up on these things. It better be great!

I am supposed to have the unit tomorrow. I spoke to Jim Weil today and his comments mirror some of your experiences. He claims there is a big performance jump from the xe-12 to the RLS. The unit I am to receive is the RLS-1, which is (according to him) the first shipping of his next generation conditioner. I guess that's why it costs more than I expected. Still has the 30 day money back guarantee. I will report back after some listening.

Had the opportunity to spend a week with the new version of this conditioner, RLS-1. Very impressive! I let it warm up for about 4 hours and went in for a listen. It was so good that I played every disc I could think of until it was unreasonably late. I thought to myself, I am THERE! The last link in my quest for audio Nirvana. (I know better than this.) The next day I listened again and not so good. Just as others have said, by day 3-4 it was back to that the level of that first day. It's cruel for components to tease you this way, then pull the rug out from under you like that. To be more specific, with my previous conditioner, the timbre's were very nice, but images overlapped each other, and there was little soundstage depth. When I removed the conditioner, the soundstaging was much better, but the timbre's were less natural, and there was a bit of bass bloat. The RLS-1 brought the beautiful timbre back but allowed much better localization of images as well a cleaning up the bass (as it was with the previous conditioner). Overall, I am very satisfied with this piece. One of the best reality checks, was when a relative over for the holidays, who has heard the system fairly regularly, said "that sounds like live music, like they are right there". I am currently experimenting with the sub in the RLS-1 versus the Running Springs. The sub has always sounded better with a conditioner versus without. Initially, the transport and the preamp were the only things plugged into the RLS-1.

I haven't installed the outlets yet. Thoughts on that? Also what did you find as far as power cords?