Thoughts on Bryston Torus Power Conditioners?

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on Bryston Torus power conditioners... I was thinking of getting a unit for the front end units like Oppo Blu Ray player, Meridian 861, Meridian HD621, Marchand Bassis, Direct TV box, and whatever other front end stuff I have, like PS3...

Any thoughts?

http://www.toruspower.com/

Benefits of Torus Power Isolation Units

Benefit #1:
Very low source impedance and high current for the power amplifier Torus power isolation units present low impedance to any electronic device that is connected to them. A Single 20 amp Torus PIU has an output impedance of 0.2 Ohms and can deliver 400 amp peaks (instantaneous current). The 100 amp unit only has .04 Ohms of output impedance. A typical 200 watt audio power amplifier demands 10 amps RMS current from a 120 volt line (1200VA) but may demand up to 50 amp instantaneous peaks. The standard residential wall receptacle can't supply the 50 amp peaks because they typically have higher nominal impedance. A Torus 20 amp PIU plugged into the same wall plug can supply these peak current requirements quite easily.

Benefit #2:
Power surge protection using Series Mode Surge Suppression rather than MOV's The Torus power products use the finest, most elaborate surge suppression technology available. Series Mode Surge Suppression does not shunt the spike to ground like MOV's do, and therefore the ground is infinitely more stable in a Torus power device.
Additionally, most MOV-based surge suppression units allow as much as 300 volts through to the protected components, easily enough to do substantial damage, where as Torus surge suppression has clamping voltage onset of around 2V above peak nominal voltage. Torus units are built to meet 6000 volts, 3000 amps at 1000 repeats standard.

Benefit #3: Total isolation from outside power grid: Torus power products provide isolation through its finest designed toroidal transformer between the outside power grid and the devices being protected. Such isolation helps to reject external noise sources such as motors, lights, and dimmers commonly found in the home environment. Torus power products provide noise filtering at a range from approximately 2000Hz to over 1MHz – other regular transformer based products do not start operating until nearly 10,000 Hz.

Benefit #4: High Power Capability: There are 15 models of Torus power products available ranging from 2.5 amps to 100 amps and 120/240 Volts. Torus has recently introduced NEMA wall-mount units, which are typically placed at the hydro panel for whole-house or whole-room power line isolation and protection.

Benefit# 5: Low Noise: Torus products utilize Plitron ‘LONO’ (Low Noise) transformer design technology that eliminates audible noise in the power transformer regardless of line conditions, DC offset and over-voltage. Torus products perform at the NC10 level measured on the standard NC (Noise Criteria) – which makes them suitable for use in very quiet environments such as professional recording and broadcast studios.

Benefit # 6: Cleaner Power: Torus products utilize Plitron “NBT” (Narrow Bandwidth Technology) to attenuate differential and common-mode noise without external circuits or components, and starting at a lower frequency (typically 2khz). The Torus result is startling – see press and user comments!

The only problem I have with benefit one, is the fact that amplifiers and all products power supplies have built in capacitors to supply peak power... So I'm not really appreciating benefit #1. They fail to mention that amplifiers and electronic devices power supplies have built in capacitance...

Bottom line:

Which model would you get if you were chosing Bryston Torus conditioner for the front end units? Mine are: Oppo Blu Ray player, Meridian 861, Meridian HD621, Marchand Bassis, Direct TV box, Lumis Host, PS3, etc... I think it would be nice to have something decent between them and the power company.

Looks like there are two choices? Balanced requiring 220 V line, and unbalanced using standard 120: Any big difference?

The units I am considering are the RM 15, RM 20, RM 20 BAL, or RM 60 BAL ... not sure what the cummulative amperage of the front end devices are or what I can fit on the current rack. Also not sure how much I would notice between RM 20 vs RM 20 BAL? Would I need to install a 240 line to use the RM 20 BAL or RM 60 BAL?

Obviously crazy to get units for the Bryston 7BST monoblocks and Lab Gruppen 14000 FP+

Essentially, the real benefits are the elimination of ground loops and heavier duty protection, but doing so with a low output impedance (unlike cheap 50.00 surge strips). I think of the Torus as a luxury more than neccessity, at least in California.

I'l take the peace of mind and better grounding, thats enough for me. I decided to get the 20A model. I'd consider the balanced 20A model, but not sure how much difference it would make?

Besides the moron engineer in the 1800's?? who decided 110V should be our standard U.S.A. infrastructure, insted of 220, I think the answer is no... Balanced has nothing to do with the votage per se, but how it is derived. In fact, in the U.S., the way we get 220 is by having (2) 110 lines in series or such.. every house has 2 hot 110V lines coming into the box. Balanced power is the way it is wired for noise cancellation or such...

If only we could go back in time and tell the morons who made us 110V to go back and makes us 220V in the USA, and also change over to the metric system... morons! Bad ancestors! bad!!