Power conditioner help

I have used the P10 with Transparent cabling and it has worked well. I have also used older Transparent power cords with the P10 and they worked well also. But when i changed to the High Fidelity MC 6 Hemisphere the sound stage just about doubled. The only negative trade off was the Hemisphere has no spike or surge protection. The P10 is a nice unit  but the Hemisphere blew it away in sound performance. My P10 sat on a PSaudio Powerbase and had the rear panel fuse up graded. All where improvements over the stock P10 by it self. The Hemisphere just sounded much more musical and detailed.The Hemisphere will take all of 600 plus  hours to be at its best. I have not tried any of the Transparent conditioners. I think both the P10 and the MC 6 Hemisphere have a 30 day money back policy.
Enjoy Pete

Thanks All. Jay, thanks for the Cable co. Suggestion. Pete, good to know that the Transparent and PS Audio worked ok together. Dentdog and falconquest, I need to educate myself about balanced power.

I just installed an ISOCLEAN power outlet and I think it's very good.  

http://isocleanpower.com/product_23.htm

This is a very interesting thread. As far as balanced power goes, I have only read a little about this and all of it has been vendor material. I have yet to get an audio amp manufacturer (other than PS Audio) to weigh in, and would welcome that.

@jay23 Thank you for the excellent video which brilliantly shows one of the problems when "everything in the chain" needs to be up to a minimal level. I completely understand the demonstrated example where the power cord was sub-par in terms of denying the meter the full current that would otherwise be available.

You are correct: I should get such a meter and perform an electrical test at the wall outlet and again at a P10 outlet. That would be informative in terms of what "load" the P10 presents. ...However, what is a "huge transformer" from a load perspective? Certainly it presents a loss in terms of consuming current, but it also buffers current in its magnetic core.

If I understand simple electrical theory sufficiently, then that loss is an issue when the amp draw approaches the effective current limit at the component/amp socket. If I understand this, that means we need a properly sized power regenerator that exceeds the amp draw by some not-by-myself-understood amount of unused current. For my Ayon and other components, these are drawing no more than 750va ...and the P10 is capable of 1500va — a 50% excess of power is available.

Did I get that right? If so, where is the starving?

I am learning a lot from all of this. And I started out with what I thought was a simple query. I am researching whole house surge protectors like the Environmental Potentials 2050. Any experience with those sorts of devices? Thanks.