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Monster clean power bars?

Okay I do my darndest to be VERY VERY skeptical of wires and cable differences. I know all the DBT zealots are all over these things as well as a lot of engineers. But here's the thing...my TV makes a fair bit of noise and my high sensitive speakers with a new Marantz receiver for the home theater does have some hiss in the treble. Basically noise.

ANyway several months back I was at A&B sound an up market Best Buy and they had a demo with the clean power power bars where they ran the the Marantz 7300 unit with a meter and you could here a big hum/hiss with regular power...plug the Marantz into the Monster bar and the his and the meter went to zero...it was extremely impressive - but being the best possible skeptic I can I just assumed the test was a trick to con people into buying these extremeley insanesly priced power bars.

Today I was talking to a Monster rep at London Drugd(they carry Klipsch, Onkyo and other mid-fi stuff) and this rep was there to tell the London Drugs manager, presumably, about the new line. This guy seems so adamant that people not beleiving in cable differences are nuts. I believe he truly is passionate in his belief and swears up and down that they are better at preserving bass and treble and time coherence than lamp cord.

Anyway, knowing that the owner of monster was an audiophile Nuclear Physicist is there some merit in these bars...the actual measurement on the back shows huge power spikes and then claims that Monster makes them dead flat. The rep said amps cannot get rid of the noise blah blah.

I guess I'm looking for two things.

1) some kind of hard evidence, not opinion, that these clean power bars actually do work and get rid of video and audio noise.
2) that if there is is proof is there a dirt cheap alternative because frankly the profit or mark-up on Monster must be 10000%


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Topic - Monster clean power bars? - RGA 21:30:56 02/23/04 (5)


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