Any Recomendations For A PowerCenter?

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Originally Posted by ikcizokm

Demonstrating my ignorance here, but can someone please (in a nice way) explain the advantages of this type of product over say, the $50 Belkin surge protector I use currently?

I'm all for having an excuse to buy more stuff. What else should I have besides my receiver, PS3 and TiVo?

I'd like to chime in here with my first ever Blu-ray Forum post (insert golf-clap here?)

I think you should consider the monster route because of the 50% off aspect. The 1600 is a good unit, but for $50 more you can get the 2600, and for only $100 more you get the wondrous 3600. I use the 3600 with a 65" Hitachi projector, onkyo receiver (5.1 kef surround sound speakers + velodyne sub), cable box, x-box 360, and a soon to be sony blu-ray player (thank god the format war is ending!!!!!!!!!!). When you go up from the 1600 to the 2600 to the 3600, you gain separate filtering of the power supply going to analog, digital audio, and digital video devices(Stage 3 filtering- the 1600 is I believe stage 2-analog and digital audio). Simply put, your dvd or blu-ray player will be isolated totally from your audio receiver, so you will not see cross-over interference. This will show up in the details already mentioned by other posters.

Other features like the auto-disconnect and MOV power isolators also mean you have a much better chance of living through a power spike or lightning pop. In my mind, the only way to improve upon the Monster HTS-3600 is to get a power regulator, but that is another realm of activity altogether.