If you're still plugging your high performance audio and video components directly into the wall or into a cheap power strip, you may not be getting the most out of your system. And you're definitely exposing your system to the risks of power spikes and voltage swings. Dirty power can lead to distortion in your video signal or hum in your audio, and power spikes can potentially damage your equipment.
Monster Cable, one of the leaders in high performance cables and home theater accessories, offers power conditioning products priced from $20 to $2000. The HTS-3500, Mark II is toward the higher end of the Monster Power line (MSRP: $399.99), but without getting into the point of diminishing returns. And at its current discounted price of $132.97 on OneCall, it may be the power conditioning deal of the decade.
Links to purchase on OneCall and Amazon.com (click to view current price):
° HTS3500MKII on OneCall
° HTS-3500 Mk. II on Amazon.com.
Details and specifications from the manufacturer:
Ordinary AC power accessories compromise the quality of the components they power. The PowerCenter's advanced technology and innovative design solves this problem and offers several unique convenience and performance features.
While your PowerCenter does an excellent job of protecting your components from harmful power surges, its main benefit is much more than just surge protection.
Monster's exclusive Clean Power filter circuitry virtually stops the noise that goes right through typical surge protectors. There is more than one type of noise that can degrade connected equipment, however. The HTS-3500 PowerCenter also features revolutionary separate noise isolation between digital, audio, and video filtered outlets. If any noise from electronic products plugged into an outlet gets through the Clean Power noise filters and to the power line, it will have to go through another filter to get to an adjacent set of outlets. The result is high quality picture and sound that's free from performance-damaging interference.
Another Monster Power breakthrough is the PowerCenter's ultra-low loss RF circuitry. While other "line conditioners" feature coaxial outlets for convenience, their insertion loss can be up to 30 DB. The PowerCenter's incredibly small insertion loss makes it ideal for all digital coaxial connections like DSS. Your PowerCenter also features an exclusive color - coding system which identifies which component should be plugged in where the outlet filter type (digital, ultra-high current audio, audio, and video). This way, you won't jeopardize performance by plugging in a high current component into a low current outlet or mistakenly plug a VCR into a switched outlet and be forced to reset its clock when power is interrupted.
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