AC Power Product Reviews (19)
PurePower 700 AC Power Regenerator and Battery Backup Reviewed
When going for the best sound in a high-end audiophile or high-performance home theater system, every link in you system must be addressed. Far too frequently, seasoned audiophiles and AV newbies alike totally glance over one of the most influential......Read MoreUltraLink PGX-500 Ultra Power AC Line Conditioner Reviewed
UltraLink may not be as well known (yet) as Monster Cable or Audioquest, but there's no denying they make some of the finest audio cables, connectors and power products available today and, unlike their notable competition, you can actually......Read MoreMonster HTPS 7000 MKII PowerSource Reviewed
The Monster Power HTPS 7000 MKII is a full-service power conditioner for today's modern home theater enthusiast. It's a step down from Monster's own AVS 2000, retailing for $1,299.95, which features voltage stabilization. However, the HTPS 7000 MKII is......Read MoreMonster AVS 2000 Home Theater Voltage Stabilizer Reviewed
There is probably not a brand on the planet as well known as Monster. Love 'em or hate 'em, Monster has a storied history of making solid consumer-grade cables and power products that has recently allowed them to expand......Read MorePurePower 700 AC Power Regeneration Device Reviewed
When going for the best sound in a high-end audiophile or high-performance home theater system, every link in you system must be addressed. Far too frequently, seasoned audiophiles and AV newbies alike totally glance over one of the most......Read MoreExact Power EP15a AV Power Regeneration Device
AC power products are highly hyped in stores as sought-after "attach" sales, yet you have to look to the higher end of the spectrum of products to find real solutions for higher-end home theater and audiophile systems. It's on......Read MoreExact Power SP15a AC Power Noise Reduction Device Reviewed
As a companion to the Exact Power EP15a, power regeneration device, the $1,200 Exact Power SP15 is a single-chassis AV component designed to additionally reduce noise coming into your system from the power grid. The unit is traditionally sized, but......Read MoreEqui=Tech Model 2Q Reviewed
When it comes to quiet, clean power in the recording studio, many engineers look to Equi=Tech for meaningful AC power solutions. In the world of audiophile and high-end home theater systems, Equi=Tech makes an all-out product called the Model 2Q......Read MoreRichard Gray's Power Company RGPC 400 Pro Reviewed
Dreamt up by a television repairman named Richard Gray and brought to market by Dick McCarthy, one of the most capable salesmen ever to work in the audiophile and home theater market (he's the guy who put Oreck vacuum cleaners......Read MoreAPC S Type AV Power Conditioner with Battery Backup Reviewed
Chances are that your computer is plugged into some form of battery backup, which very possibly could be an APC product. In the event the power ever goes out, those extra minutes to hit "save" and to shut your computer......Read MorePS Audio Power Plant Premier Reviewed
There is no question that PS Audio's Paul McGowan is the one man most responsible for making the idea of regenerated AC power popular with audiophiles. His physically giant yet not very efficient PS Audio P300 Power Plants were all......Read MorePS Audio Juice Bar II Reviewed
You gotta hand it to PS Audio for this thoughtful AC power product. A $199 power strip is something that nearly all of us need in our systems. Unless you have a Middle Atlantic rack that has AC power receptacles......Read MorePanamax M5400-PM AC Power Conditioner Reviewed
At $699, the Panamax M5400-PM is a mid-priced power converter that comes with many of the cool features that you will want when assembling a high-performance home theater system. Most notably, the Panamax AVM (patent pending) technology shows the incoming......Read MoreRichard Gray's Power Company Pole Pig Reviewed
At first glance, the Richard Gray's Power Company Pole Pig ($1,595) looks a little odd, as it is about half as wide as you might expect a full AC power component to be. On closer inspection, you will notice that......Read MoreRichard Gray's Power Company RGPC 600s Reviewed
The Richard Gray's Power Company RGPC 600s ($1,395) is a larger, half-rack-sized version of the company's highly popular Richard Gary's Power Company RGPC 400 Pro unit. Its half-rack width is designed to mate the RGPC 600s with the Richard Gray's......Read MorePanamax M1500-UPS-PFP Uninterruptible Power Supply Reviewed
Battery backup is all the rage in home theater AC power products, for good reason. With an aging and often failing national power grid, it's not uncommon to see a system suffering from a power failure so severe that the......Read MoreRichard Gray's Power Company 1200 Custom Reviewed
You don't have to watch too much CNN these days to hear all about how everything sold in America is built in China. Boeing can't seem to ship a 787 "Dreamliner." because so many parts are outsourced from so many......Read MoreAC Power Product Reviews & "Wiki" Information
When many consumers contemplate AC power for their home theater or stereo systems, they don't think past the number of outlets they need to plug in their equipment, or perhaps some cheapie power strip, yet AC power is one of the easiest and often most cost-effective ways to improve the performance and reliability of a home theater system....Read MorePurePower 1050 AC Power Regenerator & Battery Back-up Reviewed
The world of AC power products for home theater and audiophile equipment can be a mysterious one, with product offerings ranging from glorified "bus strips" to component-sized "surge protectors" to more complex, amplifier-like power regenerators. PurePowerâ„¢'s 1050 is a high-end......Read MoreLatest Home Theater News
Wal-Mart Selling Some Blu-ray Titles Online For $10 -
And I thought Subway selling foot-long hoagies for five dollars was impressive but news has leaked that Wal-mart is selling some older catalog Blu-ray titles for as little as $10. Some of these titles include "First Blood", the home theater... Click for more...
CDs Sales Tank in 2008 While Blu-ray, Downloads and Even Vinyl Boom -
Just when you were thinking, "When will the music industry get it through their thick skulls that the compact disc is a dead audio format?" come new numbers from Nielsen that show that the CD is even more dead than... Click for more...
California Reportedly Set To Regulate Power Usage of Flat HDTVs -
Remember back in the 1980s, when you were watching The Price is Right with Bob Barker and they finally got around to giving away a car that had "California Emissions" as one of the line-listed features? Living in Pennsylvania, I... Click for more...

