Surge protector/conditioner for vintage system

Man whose car got swallowed by a sinkhole bemoans the inefficacy of seat belts and air bags.

Translation: No surge protector is perfect, or can handle a direct strike but 90% of equipment damaging surges are survivable with a decent protector.

I’m near Hilton Head and as I was typing this I literally lost power, my UPS kicked in and my HT lived through another set of adverse power events. On average I live through a dozen such events a year that I know of, and probably several I do not.  I can't imagine going naked when it comes to the incoming AC power.

Of course, your level of concern may vary by state.  Living in SC and having survived several nearby lightning strikes that took out cellular and Internet infrastructure I'm absolutely paranoid about surge protection.  🤣

Also, I'm poor so I shudder to think of having to replace my integrated amp or DAC.

Just buy a whole house surge protector and have an electrician install it for you, and then forget about it.

Hey @wspohn - As the National Electric Code and whole house surge protector makers say, a whole house surge protector is not meant to replace point of use (i.e. surge protectors/strips) devices.

In particular, the whole house units have much higher let-through voltages than a good plug in surge strip from Furman or TrippLite.

The whole house units are there to prevent fires, and try to improve the longevity of hard wired devices.

They all recommend a belt AND suspenders approach.

This comes up a lot... and I wrote about it here:

https://inatinear.blogspot.com/2021/09/time-for-new-surge-suppression.html