Monster "Clean Power" Worth It? - Page 3

I actually picked this up on boxing day, total payment for it 99 bucks (had a free gift card for $100) previously owned the belkin pf30, I was considering the panamax 5300 but $99 vs $399, is the panamax that much better?

If I get a Panamax gift card for $450 then obviously that would be a better deal, DUH.

ahhaahah.. meaning is panamax 5300 that much better than the hdp 2500 to pay that much more?

Apparently even monoprice makes one that is also a ups. Need to research it more...

Did you return your hdp 2500?

Tell you what, if you want to believe that snake oil crap that Monster is putting out, go right ahead. Power supplies for electronics have gotten better in protecting the device, due to how they are designed now.

This is like asking if you should go out and purchase one of those $150 gold plated electrical outlets, $2,000 power cords, $10,000 hdmi cables, due to the seller states that it will make unicorns appear in your house, you get three wishes from the magical genie, and that you will never have any problems in your life ever again.

Only people making money are the shareholders, due to people buying this crap.

Really? How did it improve those 1's and 0's going through the wiring?

Well duhhh...the 1's are straighter...and the 0's are rounder..any fool can hear or see that !

Not yet... i did see an APC ups at costco today for $130... i might return the 2500 and get that one... as aside from a very slight diff in audio quality, i havent seen any improvement over my old $20 surge protector

Mind you, for $100 i'd probably keep it though...

I just wanted to get an idea among fellow avs'ers on the product and if others were using it. Seems this is one of those mixed bag were reviews are 50/50.

That's funny

Superman, I just use a $40 surge with alarm that we got from Lowe's. Whenever I get off my butt, I may get a UPS, due to we have had a couple of times this year that power has gone flippin crazy by cycling on and off, due to a bad transformer, but other than that our power is clean for what our city provides.

Depending on how much load you plan on putting on that UPS, there are "offsite" type whole house UPS that you place in the garage, basement, etc that would cover that circuit, or multiple circuits. Well worth it, especially if you have a genset, and want something to carry over until you can get the genset up and running.

It's specially designed cable with patented coaxial conductors.
The 1's travel lengthwise down the center wire, the 0's travel
broadside down the shield -- and none of the other numbers
can get through.

...with Monster® keyboard cables, who needs a spellchecker?

LK

Tonight i will be trying different configs to see if this has done anything to improve the sound... but im leaning on likely returning it.

Its going back

It would have been especially fun if this thread had come up in the audio section here instead.

Just whatever you do, do not invite any of those people over here. I'd really hate to see another, whole area of the forum rendered completely useless by constant, in-house, personally insulting bickering.

The following dialog is not intended to insult or offend. The intent is purely to shed light on the topic.


I don't know what "Electric" (proper noun) is, but I'll bet it's expensive.

Yes, alternating current is known to fluctuate constantly...hence the name.


No matter what, eh? No need to even plug it in. Never buy electricity again! Actually the specs say it can only maintain a "constant" (not really, but the more taps in the transformer, the smaller the variation) voltage only between 80-140 VAC, which is more or less the same as other AC voltage regulators.


No, I really shouldn't. Watching your electrical usage habits may give you hours of entertainment, but I think you'll find that you're alone in that infatuation. I'll admit that as a child I watched the electric meter from time to time. But my idea of fun was when the disk spun faster, not when it just sat there motionless.


Isn't that like using an oil filter only on the dirty oil that you drain out of the car? Or a morning after birth control pill for men? Did it ever occur to you that your AVR might like filtered power to start with?


ROFL!!! Can't have enough outlets for things that require digital power, can we?


At the risk of stating the obvious, shouldn't your "components" run at peak performance regardless? If by "components" you mean credit cards, and peak performance is measured by the rate at which they go from zero balance to maxed-out...you may be on to something.

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I'm sorry but there's no way to break it to someone gently. Companies like Monster prey on people who have more money than common sense.

Of course there are legitimate instances of substandard AC power. Actually it is quite common. If this "problem" is so wide-spread, then why isn't every user of utility power up in arms? Because 99.9% of the "problem" goes completely unnoticed, so it really isn't a problem after all.

The fact of the matter is that, despite the vaguely-worded claims, no product is going to "make your whites whiter, your brights brighter", or make your TV picture look any better than its manufacturer intended. Stuff like this can't fix anything when there's nothing broken. That's the bottom line.

Actually, i did notice the readout drop evenings, to 117-118, compared to 120 the rest if the time though.

A typical autoranging SMPS can handle 80 to 250VAC, the actual input voltage doesn't really mean much.

It would be because stuff in your house is getting turned on, along with everyone in your neighborhood turning on stuff, placing a load on the electrical distribution system.

I can tell when the capacitor bank kicks in in the morning, and when it shuts down, that feeds the line to my house, just by going and looking at the stats for my TED5000.

I would not worry about 117, it is still within specs of the system. Now, if it dips down and stays below 100, yes you have a worry.