Can expensive surge protectors provide better audio and video quality?
Home Controls wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Hi Everybody!
If you listen to the companies selling the equipment, there’s no doubt about it. Monster promises, “a more natural sound, increased dynamic range, and the most vivid video images possible,” and includes a highly suspect comparison to back up its claims. Similarly, Panamax claims, “improved picture and sound quality from AV component sources” from its $500 surge protector. (We did notice that Belkin–another major manufacturer of surge protectors–makes no claims of improved AV quality.)
So is the marketing hype true? As far as we can tell, no. In terms of video quality, we’ve never seen any difference from the Monster surge protector compared to other surge protectors, or even compared to plugging components directly into the wall–and we’re constantly looking for even the slightest video artifacts. Maybe I just have good, “clean” power, but we haven’t noticed any differences in our personal home theaters either.
For audio, it’s largely the same […]
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