Power Conditioner's/Filter's...are they necessary? What should i look for?

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Basically I’ve been having weird pops and squeaks coming through my monitors even though I’m using balanced cables (and have changed cables to make sure it wasn’t them. I have (as best I could) to separate audio and power cables. I used to have everything piggy backed off one power points, but had 5 extra points put in. Now I have everything running off 6 power points + one power board.

I’m running a pc, 2x(computer)monitors, digi 002, motif, headphone amp, 2 turn, asr10, 2x(studio)monitors, roland gi-20. So to work our what voltage I need, do I need to add up what each unit draws?

Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated, bit out of my depth and don’t want to throw my money away on a magic black box.
 
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wreckd504 said:
Basically I’ve been having weird pops and squeaks coming through my monitors even though I’m using balanced cables (and have changed cables to make sure it wasn’t them. I have (as best I could) to separate audio and power cables. I used to have everything piggy backed off one power points, but had 5 extra points put in. Now I have everything running off 6 power points + one power board.
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I seriously doubt a power conditioner will help. I would expect any power glitches that aren't sufficient to cause your computer to crash to get filtered out by caps in the power supply of your audio gear.

In my experience, pops and squeaks usually indicate a USB audio interface with lousy drivers, but you mentioned Digi hardware, so the next guess is a FireWire card that either has a non-TI FireWire chipset or is on a poorly configured PCI bus with incorrectly set latency timers or has an IRQ conflict or something.

If the speakers pop without anything playing back, my next guess would be something defective in the power supply of your amplifier. What sort of monitor speakers are these?
 
*mutters* behringer truths...


now before i cop it, they don't make any of noise unless an audio program is open, be that windows media player, acid or PT...im stumped.
 
wreckd504 said:
*mutters* behringer truths...


now before i cop it, they don't make any of noise unless an audio program is open, be that windows media player, acid or PT...im stumped.
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See my comments on PCI latency timers, FireWire card chipset, etc. That's where I'd put my money.
 
wreckd504 said:
*mutters* behringer truths...


now before i cop it, they don't make any of noise unless an audio program is open, be that windows media player, acid or PT...im stumped.
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um...why 'mutter' it?:confused:
 
Because i don't like them and wish i could afford something better, though i've found many people who disagree.

Before i start a behringer debate, my beef isn't with the sound its due to fact they've stopped working numerous times, been replaced and behringer is less than helpful.

I like my behringer head phone amp, but am ashamed to own truths;

Back to the power discussion!!
 
wreckd504 said:
Because i don't like them and wish i could afford something better, though i've found many people who disagree.

Before i start a behringer debate, my beef isn't with the sound its due to fact they've stopped working numerous times, been replaced and behringer is less than helpful.

I like my behringer head phone amp, but am ashamed to own truths;

Back to the power discussion!!
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ok...sorry...thanx for clearing that up...(oh, I'm one of those who disagrees.........

































with being poor):D)
 
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