A good home theater surge protector should provide additional benefits other than protection. For example, good home theater surge protectors should also reduce or eliminate any line noise from the various signal paths coming into your system. Numerous customers write us back telling us how much better their picture is, or how much better the sound is when using a high quality home theater surge protector. These are real benefits and are generally experienced by most customers. In general, the higher price the model, the more filtration and cleanup you get. Do not think of home theater surge protectors are just protection! You'll be missing out if you do.

There are at least 3 reasons to purchase a good home theater line conditioner: Surge Protection, Improved Picture and Sound (line filtering), and Power On Sequencing. Do not assume your picture or sound cannot be improved over it's current state! Use a component style unit if you are looking to improve your system performance. We are an authorized dealer for our Monster Cable and Panamax home theater surge protectors.

Our products WILL protect your system, and they are guaranteed by the manufacturers to do so. Surge Protection should not be taken lightly! There are all sorts of claims out there about various technologies being better or worse for surge protection. In reality, proper surge protection is a little more complex than that. No one technology should be considered the best for all circumstances. The home theater surge protection devices we sell are proven products, with a long history of successful protection, even if you need lightning surge protection. Our Surge Suppressors carry a protected equipment warranty. In other words, they are *guaranteed* to protect by the manufacturers! No hype and fancy talk, just real surge protection with proven technologies, even home theater surge protection. Our Power Protectors use a hybrid technology, combining the best technologies for the ultimate in protection. This gives you the best surge protector available!

We are a trained dealer of our products. The component surge protector products sold for home theater need to be carefully hooked up, improper hookup is bad for your equipment and voids your warranty. Please contact us via email after you receive your item(s) so we can help you to properly hook up your equipment. We have found approximately 1 out of 3 people hook up their equipment improperly, putting them at increased risk to suffer damage.

Reasons why our surge protector products are better:

WARRANTY. Both Panamax and Monster Cable warrant their units *and* the equipment connected to them, if you buy from an authorized dealer. While this may seem like a minor concern according to some web sites, think about it. If they were not confident their equipment works, they would not warrant connected equipment. But they do. And with over 10 million sold between them, clearly, they wouldn't be selling them any more if they did not work as they would be paying more and more claims every year as the installed base grew.

HYBRID DESIGN. Both Panamax and Monster Power surge protectors use a hybrid design, using various technologies which when combined offer the best possible protection. If you are thinking series mode protector, think again, they use a coil, and coils pass voltage through during prolonged surges (Won't happen? Ever hear of an ice storm?).

PROTECTION FOR ALL PATHS. No surge protection technology can possibly work unless *all* signal paths coming into and out of your system are protected. Some competing brands actually sell units that have AC only protection! They are useless unless you protect all paths.

RESPONSE TIME. Panamax and Monster surge proectors have a response time of less than 1 nanosecond. This is critical in protecting from surges! If you have a UPS or are considering one, please note that most of them provide a 5NS response time, this is NOT good. Also, a question to ask if you are considering a UPS is does it protect all the signal paths? Also, please be aware that UPSs add LOTS of noise to an audio/video system, you will greatly reduce the quality of your system with a UPS.

PROTECTION and "Series Mode". What about series mode protection? Series mode protection by itself is good, but has some weaknesses. One major weakness is that common mode impulses generated by in house surges or other types of surges are unprotected by a series mode surge protector, bet they didn't tell you that. Or, maybe they said they do not occur or are not large enough to cause any damage? The UL1449 spec they like to quote *requires* a common mode surge test, why would they have the test if it was not important? Also, see below as to why they still claim they pass UL1449 despite having no common mode protection. Panamax and Monster Power surge protectors protect against common mode surges. Also, series mode proponents claim that other protectors have short lifetimes, while theirs does not. The manufacturer of the components used for AC protection rates their product as having a lifetime of 500 years if you had a direct hit by lightning on your power feed once per year (IEEE 500 amp test pulse). Or, you could easily handle 100,000 100 amp surges. Another claim is that Panamax or Monster Power surge protectors shunt all surges to ground. Not so! Surges are diverted to neutral and ground, making all 3 phases have the same potential, meaning no downstream damage, unlike the claims. Also, they claim that mode 2 protectors inflate by massive factors the ground reference, we can direct you to sources in the power industry that says this can happen without *any* mode 2 protector, the case is vastly overstated, and since they do not protect against those types of surges... Series mode protectors really do NOT pass the UL1449 rating as that requires passing the mode 2 protection test, it is part of the UL1449 spec. They get out of it by not having ANY protection except for hot-neutral, and therefore there is nothing to test, all semantics. Which means other types of surges are *completely* unprotected. Ask them what happens during a prolonged surge, as in 10 seconds, or minutes say during an ice storm. Also, if the surge exceeds their rated capacity, any coil design gets overloaded, and overloaded coils pass through the voltage. If they tell you you cannot possibly get a surge in excess of 6,000 volts, wrong again. Finally, most of the ones we've seen do NOT guarantee they will protect your system, Panamax and Monster Power do! Now why would that be?