California Brownouts and equipment

Here's the place your looking for Dekay:

http://www.globe-mart.com/computer/surge/monstercable/index.htm

Global Mart has great prices and a 30 day return policy.

http://www.hififorless.com used to have even better prices but all sales were final. As such, that was no big deal if you knew that you really wanted that item. I checked their prices on Sunday night and they have gone up $80 on the hts-2000 ( from $119 to $199 ) and $120 on the hts-2500 ( from $169 to $289 ) since then !!! I would imagine that if you were to call them, you could probably get the old prices.

I have no idea what prompted this advertised price increase, but one might assume that Monster is cracking down on dealers selling below MSRP. Buy them "cheap" while you can !!! Sean
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I assume this monster 2000 cleasn up the ac current? Similar to the mit product but for less?

jd

What if you don't have power plant or line conditioner or sophisticated surge protector, Your euipment are at risk?

Sean: Bummer, that was where I picked mine up (but it's only $75.00 and not the end of the world). I think that Craig at Vibrapods offers a slight discount and will check him out. Jdwek: The HTS-2000 cleans up the power, but does not regenerate or add power when the current drops. I still recommend it though for what it does do at its price point (smooth out the highs, reduce background noise and acts as a surge protector without mucking up the sound, IMO) and have used it with sucess on three different setups (both tube and SS). Of course if you have a clean power source perhaps just a "quality" surge protector would do the trick. I forgot to mention before that we did have a couple of fans fail, in our computer approx 6 months apart, but I feel that it may have been from the low amperage that we were experiencing. Since adding the APC to the computer the power supply seems to run cooler. NilthePill: I would think so. Though I do not understand why, power surges are commom when areas are being powered up again following a black out. I can even recall my father unplugging the "precious" television in the late 50's during power outages in the Midwest at the advice of our neighbor who was an electrician for Westinghouse, so this is not a new concept.

Sean & everybody: I just went to Global Mart and the price is still $124.95 plus $9.25 for UPS ground. I ordered another one to get it over with. I am going to try running two in tandem (the second one running off of the "digital" outlet of the first). I will plug the amp into the "amp" plug of the first unit and run the digital components (DAC and player) from the "digital" outlets on the second unit. If doubling up on the digital gear does not sound better, I still have a use for it on the mini system. If I weren't so cheap I would have ordered a couple for the televisions as well, but I am, so I didn't.