Who has dumped the power conditioner?


Hello,
I recently replaced my mains conditioner, with a high quality power strip.(Oyaide MG).

The sound is now more detailed, dynamics I didn't know I was missing are back, and air and separation have all improved.
I am interested if anyone else has gone back to basics?
Cheers
sme10

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Sme10 - I recently installed Furman 20PFi conditioner. It has three banks of outputs: for high current amps, for audio, for video. I connected my components accordingly. After 1 day of pretty muffled sound dynamics came back, imaging got more focused, midrange opened becoming more detailed, bass is more "even" (midbass resonant frequency disappeared)and shorter but still "punchy" (lower source impedance?). The really strange thing is that my DLP TV picture got much better (sharper, cleaner and more vivid colors). That was pretty much what Furman was promising but it doesn't make much sense (digital OTA signal, digital TV). The only explanation is that presence of noise on power lines (or interaction audio-video) was causing signal jitter (noise in time domain). In addition I sleep better since Furman has non-sacrificial overvoltage protection that clamps at 188V max (not around 300V like many power strips with protection).
"Please! "...other than repping the products in Canada, Prosoundman has no financial interest, stake, claim, or other obligation or relationship to, with, or for Silver Circle Audio"

I'm confused - can you explain this to me?

Is he or is he not rep for Silver Circle Audio(in Canada or elsewhere)? If he is he should disclose it - simple. As far as I know reps don't operate for free (financial interest). If he is not then Audiofeil made false assumption. This is not just opinion - it's a truth.

Dave_b - I also initiated only one thread.
"However, in a sense we are all reps..." - Are you trying to muddy the water? Repping product is a contract activity not the state of mind.

One thread though, hmm?...still a little suspicious - not really. For me this forum is an opportunity to learn (and very grateful for that). It can be achieved by asking questions or reading/absorbing - matter of preference.

"Your not an ET with a jones for audio voyerism are you?"

Could you translate?
Tbg - People who post about their experiences with gear help me a lot to make decisions and learn, while people who say that everything is relative and I should listen to music instead don't help at all.
Let me get this straight - (I can laugh during it if it makes you feel better):

Prosound who is rep for Silver Circle Audio makes sales pitch (I don't have any other name for that):

"This power conditioner simply out-performs every other conditioner on the market, period."

and when he is asked about his financial interest Dstanard from Silver Circle Audio jumps in to defend him.

It doesn't look bad up to this point but lets look at another Prosundman thread: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1248441278&openusid&zzProsoundman&4&5#Prosoundman

Same story - Prosoundman makes sales pitch for Silver Circle Audio cables and when asked by Rnadelman for affiliation with the company Dstanard jumps in with his sales pitch and offers demo to Rnadelman who agrees.

Summary: We have here couple of guys who have financial interest advertising product on the forum on offering demo with purpose to sell. This is very unethical and even more disturbing that they don't see anything wrong with it.
Are you guys so cheap that you cannot pay for advertising like everybody else?

I invite everybody to read the link I posted and be the judge yourself. Perhaps moderator should read as well.
Nolitan - I experienced big improvement in clarity with conditioner (Chicago). It also removed upper bass resonance (lower source impedance?). It is important to pick one with high current output for power amp since amp's power supply takes current from mains in very short narrow spikes of very high amplitude. In a sense every linear power supply is a switching power supply operating at 120Hz with big momentary current demands and conditioner has to be able to supply it otherwise DC voltage drops at peaks - loss of dynamics.