Living in the land of poor
power, frequent sags, peaks and surges...
The whole building units are only effective for massive problems, and don't help on really sensitive equipment
Here are some ideas from my experience
Your standard
power strip units are somewhat of a joke, are prone to internal failure what can cause more problems, so they definitely are not the best
The
Furman rackunits are ok but don't help with sags, and
IMO sags are more the cause of the problems or sags followed by surges
I use a combination of the tripp lite
power conditioning units, which have an ability using tap switching to boost and cut
power levels, and I also use quality
sine wave continuous
UPS. Most of the cheaper
ups are back up and DON'T CONDITION or clean up the
power.
Forget about using them on amps, most of the pro setups don't use them in fact it is a good idea to NEVER USE A
power strip for
power amps but instead use a
quad box. There are amps with built in
DSP that could use the conditioning, but the problem is that the cost of conditioning
ups unit that would support more than a modest amp rack is significant.
SO
IMO use conditioning units that correct sag and surges at a minimum on consoles mixers,
dsp racks
etc if you have the budget get quality on
line sine wave ups units APC and TRIPP LITE make them you and don't waste money on back
ups IF what you want is
power conditioning
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000514G8/?tag=controlbooth-20
THESE ARE NOT CHEAP BUT REALLY CLEAN UP THE
POWER
http://www.tripplite.com/products/ups/ups_smartonline.cfm
Sharyn