Hi, I have an entry level setup and looking for a decent power conditioner.
I have read up on Furman and like the reviews for quality. I looked at Panamax, but have heard bad things for quality.
My setup:
- NAD 325BEE integrated amp
- NAD C 542 CD player
- Dynaudio Audience 42 speakers
- ... and a Mac Pro and high end color monitor
- We have a fair number of power outages also in the winter, sometimes thunderstorms in the summer (but not frequent).
I am narrowing in on either the Furman PL-8C (which is a rackmount design and I have no rack to mount it on), or the Furman PST-8 DIG or PST-8. The PST-8 series can just sit on my floor and I don't need the fancy pull out lights. I just need piece of mind and better sound.
From the specs the PL-8C and PST-8 DIG look almost identical except that the PST-8/DIG don't have undervoltage protection, have worse filtration according to specs (but both have SMP, LiFT, EVS). It looks like the PST-8 DIG also has some different blocks for analog vs digital devices (but the PST-8 and PL-8C do not as far as I can tell). No idea whether that is a useful thing or not.
Is there a major difference between them that I am not aware of? Should I just save some $ and go for the PST-8 (non DIG version)?
Thank you for any advice.