I’ve used a variety over the years, both conditioners and regenerators. Let’s see: TAD/Bybee; Bybee/Curl Pro; PurePower 2000; Running Springs Dmitri; Audience’s top duplex wall mount, whatever it was labeled, just for my phono stage. Once I installed 4 20-amp dedicated lines with top Furutech duplexes and a separate subpanel running directly back to my new 200-amp service, though, I pretty much gave up on conditioning, etc. I liked direct to the wall better. Then I tried AudioQuest Niagara 5000 around 18 months ago, just to see, and it has stayed in my system ever since. With everything in the signal chain plugged into it (very important to cut ground noise), including high power class A amps (when I use them), the noise floor drops dramatically and everything is at once more detailed and more natural. AQ Hurricane cords all around really help, too. Now 3 dedicated lines sit unused.
Who Tried Power Conditioners Over The Years and No Longer Use Them Today, Any Why?
Been thinking back to when I started in Audio and how good the system sounded with no power conditioners or fancy power cords. Then in the '90s slowly they both became a huge profit market for stores and manufacturers of them. If you used one on front end gear only or whole systems I will be interested in your real-world experience you could share with us all. I have a few so I am not against them, but I do at times have questions.