I would save my money and buy a bunch of DVDs. If you must get something, get a good surge protector if you are at all fearful of lightning strikes, otherwise it's not worth the money for a power amp. When a company starts saying that _their_ AC will improve things like imaging, pace, soundstaging, run like hell. As long as the wall power is at all within normal parameters, that's all an amp needs. Remember, the amp runs on _DC_ that's produced inside the amp, and there's a transformer to isolate the wall power from the rectifiers and filters. These do all that is needed unless your power is really crappy.

For low level equipment like preamps, it's a good idea to get something like the TrippLite "Isobar" filters which offer protection from surges and filter out any RF interferrence that might creep into your AC.

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited December 24, 2002).]