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Whole house surge protection

I'm thinking of having an electrician install one of these devices at the service entrance of my house. I get frequent thunder storms. Does anyone know what these are made of? Do they use inductors? Reason I'm asking is I do not want any device that can limit dynamics of my audio system. I've looked into ZeroSurge, SurgeX, etc that use SMP, which seem to be ideal compared to devices using MOVs. But all of these use inductors..and some who have used this type of technology have complained of dynamic restriction and collapsing of soundstage. Thanks.
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plato
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Yeah, anytime I've tried surge protection with a transformer it has limited system dynamics.

Now I'm using different filtering and power-regenerating devices from PS Audio and they seem to work very well... providing improved sound quality and musicality with no loss of dynamics.

But of course the only sure way of providing complete protection from lightning strikes is to unplug your gear during bad storms.
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