Conditioners and Battery Backup

[madpipier]

I want to add a conditioner and battery backup to my HT. I have come to believe individual quality components to be better than combining a power conditioner and battery backup in one unit. The question is which one comes first in the power chain? Does the backup plug into the wall and the conditioner into the backup or vice versa? Maybe the better question is the availability of a unit with both conditioner that rivals Furmann's reference conditioner units and backup.

 

[j_garcia]

Unless you have something with a bulb or are using a HTPC that will be better served by time to shut down, you don't need a UPS IMO.

 

[fuzz092888]

What j_garcia said. Also, unless you're getting noise through your speakers without anything playing, you live in an area notorious for dirty power, or brown outs, a conditioner/voltage regulator is really unnecessary as well. Plus, the noise through your speakers could be a grounding problem that a conditioner won't necessarily fix.

 

[tmurnin]

Agree. Get a $50 surge protector and call it good.

 

[ImcLoud]

I used to have a yamaha avr that when you shut the power off to it, it would go into a demo mode and then have to be reset, so a real pain, after yamaha couldn't fix it {or wouldn't} I bought an apc backup and it fixed the problem, if the power went out I wouldn't have to reset my entire avr, but I don't see any other reason to use something like that...