richardw42:I have just ordered the PF30 (£28 including p&p). In my AV I currently have 6 items plugged into a Tacima, as the Belkin takes 5 which of the following would you leave and plug as normal TV BD PLAYER AMP SUB SKY HD XBOX 360 Of them all the Xbox gets the leaset use (by some margin), do you agree that its the xbox that should get left off.
You could just use a normal extension lead running from any of the PF30's sockets to give you extra connections, provided you don't overload it with several heavy consumers like your receiver or amplifiers - a couple of games consoles connected into an extension block and plugged into one of the PF's rear sockets won't present any problem. Essentially, the larger PF models have exactly that - two or more sockets wired together internally: The box of those models may be bigger, but the individual circuits in the PF40, 50 and 60 aren't any different to the PF30 in terms of filtering ability or load capacity, although those models do have an additional similar circuit or two (the PF30 has 3 separate filter circuits, the PF40 has 4, and so on) which gives them slightly higher overall loading capability - but not a great deal more (an extra 3 amps in total). The PF30 is fitted with a fast acting resettable 10-amp circuit breaker anyway, so there's nothing to worry about provided you don't really overload it.
What may also be of interest to you is that the mains circuit onto which the PF30 is plugged also becomes quieter (I tested it): Equipment plugged into a wall socket next to your PF30 also benefits from both noise reduction and spike protection (but not from any RF filtering), probably from the smoothing capacitors and MOV's which sit across the PF30's internal circuits. This could be useful to know for connecting your sub or receiver - especially if you find connecting either of them to the PF30's HC socket changes the sound in an undesirable way (the HC circuit thankfully avoids use of an RF choke, but is in-line with the initial ferrite, also used to minimise/eradicate RFI).
richardw42:Also I've only ordered one by way of an experiment, but would my hi-fi benefit from one as well. I have Roksan Kandy K2 CD, Musical Fidelity XA2 amp thru RS6.
If you have distortions on your mains, probably yes. But there's how many left... 20? There were 150 last week, so I wouldn't hang about!