roodog

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
It worked fine until it didn't, which was only ten months. No lightning strikes or voltage spikes to blame. Unable to reset so it's going into the trash.

amperidian

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.33 of 5, 3.00 votes

Price Paid:  $250.00 from best buy

Summary:
This review is for the HTS 2000 mkII, which I got from best buy, before I realised how overpriced their products are. Overall, a decent product, I noticed a definite inprovement in image quality on my cable TV. I also got Monster Video 2 component video cables at the same time, hooked them up between DVD and A/V receiver and TV and image quality improved radically from composite video cables. In terms of sound, I did not notice any range compression as others have, nor did I find that my system sounded smoother. That's using a Kenwood VR 6060 receiver. I recently upgraded to the Denon avr4802r and the improvement in sound is vast to say the least, but I payed for what I got. I'm not so sure that I can atribute any sound change to the HTS 2000 mkII power manager. I did see the difference in filtering between stage 1 and stage 2 and its significant. But beware, in order to get the "electrical noise" that I was shown at best buy, you need to have many electrical components using the same power line as your audio/video components ... which rarely happens in reality because your fuses would blow much faster where you live due to overloading. So keep that in mind, unless you live next to power plants or other sources of electrical interference/noise.

Strengths:
cable video signal improvement designated plugs for various units separate audio/video sides

Weaknesses:
no notable audio change

Similar Products Used:
none

Price Paid:  $100.00 from eBay

Summary:
I bought this line conditioner after reading a few independant rave reviews online. It has been a good purchase for my system. Shoot, the guarantee was worth the $100 alone. I noticed that the bass was a little tighter, and highs are a bit more "airy" as well. Midrange is unchanged, IMO. I did make one major change recently: I unplugged my power amp from the HTS2000, and plugged it directly into the wall. THAT made an even bigger difference. I don't care what Monster says, the conditioner was limiting the amount of juice my amp was getting. I'm not worried about power surges in my area. I pay extra for home owners' insurance for this reason anyway. I've left all low draw equipment plugged into the Monster, though, and everything seems happy now.

Strengths:
Cleaner highs, tighter bass. Price.

Weaknesses:
Limits juice to high powered amps.

Similar Products Used:
Cheap surge protectors that seemed good until I compared them with this one.

Price Paid:  $109.00 from I forget online some

Summary:
my system: Rotel rc-1090 pre-amp Rotel rcd-1070 cd player Rotel rb-1080 amp Tributaries sca-100, sca-200 line level cable Tributaries SP4 speaker cable (bi-wired) Paradigm Studio 100’s (version 1) I live in an apartment complex and purchased this product assuming that the power would be a problem. And I didn't want to spend the $750 and above on the Reference line conditioners from reputable companies. When I first plugged it in it seemed to make amazing improvements. The high's seemed like honey and the based seemed to be more extended and more pronounced. The mid's were a little chesty sounding but overall it seemed to improve my system. After listening for a couple of weeks I realized that all the different cd's were sounding the same and that it had a very bass heavy sound and the detail seemed to be gloss over or lost completely. I still use in my home theater becuase I am not as particular about eking out every detail in movie sound - I'm just fanatic about stereo music. So basically I have an expensive power strip now. Bottom line is I lost a lot of detail from the music and added a boominess to the midrange

Strengths:
Made me realize how much detail my system brought out without using any power conditioning. smoothed out the treble

Weaknesses:
Loss of detail boomy midrange expensive power surge now

Similar Products Used:
No other line conditioner

Price Paid:  $109.00 from efunctional.com

Summary:
I really wanted to be impressed with this--my wife actually gave me the o.k. to get it! However, as has been mentioned in earlier reviews, the HTS 2000 did not improve my audio nor my video. In fact, I noticed a compression of the sound stage, particularly in the highs (slight, but audible). You must know that I have a new house, a dedicated a/v circuit, with a direct line to the electrical pole to my house. I imagine that this would have some dramatic effects if the power were coming down the line with a few more obstacles than I have.

Strengths:
Well-made. Great design. Some free cables and labels. $100K insurance.

Weaknesses:
Did not deliver on improved sound or video. Very expensive if just a surge protector!

Similar Products Used:
Vvarious household surge protectors