Am i missing something without a power conditioner?

@uberwaltz

assuming I obviously am tone deaf and would not know hifi if it whacked me around the side of the head!

I assume no such thing. <vbg> == Very Big Grin == Humor. Can't say I share your general taste in music but sometimes I rock out with Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who... and sundry other retirees. Tommy "Underture" is one of my reference tracks. Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of that (TFIC) exalted status. TFIC = Tongue Firmly In Cheek.

Cassettes are terrible vis a vis almost any other media. Mechanically it cannot be otherwise. I fail to see the point of recent enthusiasm. In the studio, we referred to them as "crappettes". 

Taking parts of a post is an online hazard and one I'm willing to risk. I try to take enough so as to not change the context. What someone types is not always what they meant and the writer cannot fault subsequent users if the meaning was misconstrued.

Since we're bitching, far too often some late comer has not read the entire thread and chimes in unprimed and half-cocked.

PAX

@tattooedtrackman. A good dealer should sell you a Power Conditioner with a 7 day return option. Mine did and it didn't go back. That was quite a few years ago. Not only better sound but better picture on TV. Made SD like HD.

Hopefully your dealer will do this.

initforthemusic ..Yes that is what i would like to do is try it out in my system first with a return option. 

aalenik ..Yes i am looking into the Shunyata Denali 2000t for my preamp and cd player. I dont think i want to put my amp on a power conditioner.

Maybe I am not very bright but I do not see how putting an expensive 3 foot wire between a wall jack connected with likely 20 to 50 feet of 12 or 14 gauge Romex cable to a box with two low cost circuit breakers then thru many feet of aluminum cable to a transformer could be expected to do anything over almost any cable unless it is replacing too light a gauge cable with lousy connectors.   If one were to put a device, like a regenerator or at least a power conditioner to control spikes and dips in the line power between the wall outlet and the expensive cable, I can see where it may be of some benefit to have a better connection from such a clean source rather than the power coming from a line transformer to your wall outlet.