I have always wondered about using one of these with hifi gear but have never looked into it. I have in the past used commercial regulators with test equipment like scopes and thermocouples in a R&D facility and assumed that they helped maintain calibration of the instruments. A cool box for $50.00 sounds good to me though there must be a catch as I have never seen one used in a hifi system even ones owned by electrical engineers.
Voltage Regulators
I saw a little device in Radio Shack's catalog on the page with all the $1000 oscilliscopes of a 400VA Line conditioner. Its an attractive little no-frills unit that looks very well built. Its on sale for $50 (quite cheap) and didn't know it this is of any value to audiophiles or if anyone had any experience with it. It doesn't specify about EMI/RFI filtering; however, its supposed to insure a constant voltage, no spikes or brownouts. The product # is 910-5122 and its built by Samlex America. It seems like it may be promising considering it isn't aimed at the audio community, so I feel safer that someone hasn't ridiculously marked the product up. Any knowledge of this thank you.
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