To power condition or not to power condition AVR


Given that an AV receiver has a complicated set of combined tasks, seems that external power conditioner might be valuable given all digital processing, but concerned about limiting current.  Your thoughts and experience in this topic appreciated.  Specific power conditioners you have had good luck using with AVRs?

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@akg_ca thanks for your reply.  Seems like poor power supply would benefit from power conditioning more than a high quality supply? But, according to the manufacturer "Unlike most AV amps the AVR400 has a huge toroidal transformer that gives it enough current to tame even the most difficult of speaker loads." While there is undoubtedly hype here, the amp measured well in a review test bench, and sounds more accurate to me compared with Onkyo, Denon, Pioneer, etc.

Already using an after market cable directly to hospital grade outlet fed by dedicated 10 AWG, 20 amp line.
I should have read your response to my thread about power cords first, I see where you are coming from.
@savdllc, thanks for your constructive input.  I think folks may be missing my point which is this: is there a trade off of power conditioner use for an AVR balancing potential lost current delivery for amp(s) against cleaning up digital noise back out to AC service from processors in the AVR? Even if you have super clean power from the wall, the AVR digital processors my have negative effects that could affect performance of other components driven from the same outlet/circuit.