Surge and Conditioning

I have no idea about other McIntosh owners and what they like or don’t? If you re-read my original post, I own a marantz receiver and I’m specifically asking for other options than the mcp500 as I don’t want to spend $3,000. Thank you for pointing out there are other manufacturers, but who are they and what units are you recommending?  Thanks. 

Thank you. I will check them out. Any thoughts on surgeX? I’m seeing them mentioned along with zero surge. Thanks!

Thank you all for the comments. Understood on the whole house. We are building a new home and will do that there but not going to put it in here. Are the furmans voltage limiting?  The tech I spoke to at our local shop says to make sure it’s not voltage limiting. Thanks!

Mm1tt77

your post summed this up perfectly for me in a way I have been struggling to articulate. I am looking for surge protection and noise reduction by cleaning up some dirty power, likely due to the coax cable that comes in near the 20 a plug in (I should have designed that differently from the beginning but too late now. I am looking for a device that won’t limit current to the main mc300 amp either. So here are my questions:

would it need to regenerate power to be able to achieve this?

I keep reading how SurgeX doesn’t use MOV and to stay away from anything that does, but I have no idea how valid those comments are? Seems to be from folks in high lighting areas so I’m paying attention to that, but maybe for the wrong reasons. 
 

I added a ground loop isolator for the coax cable, but should I run this through a device as well?  I’m not seeing too many that offer the coax piece, or if I do, I’m not sure if they do the other parts of this (non limit the main power amp and subs, and clean the power).

I appreciate your guidance and will check out pine tree today as well. Thanks!

@lonemountain  awesome summary, thank you!  Question for you as I looked up your company’s offerings, which are impressive; however, beyond my budget for this piece (for now). Knowing that, what would you recommend under $500 to $900?  Thanks!