Okay I do my darndest to be VERY VERY skeptical of wires and cable differences. I know all the DBT zealots are all over these things as well as a lot of engineers. But here's the thing...my TV makes a fair bit of noise and my high sensitive speakers with a new Marantz receiver for the home theater does have some hiss in the treble. Basically noise.
ANyway several months back I was at A&B sound an up market Best Buy and they had a demo with the clean power power bars where they ran the the Marantz 7300 unit with a meter and you could here a big hum/hiss with regular power...plug the Marantz into the Monster bar and the his and the meter went to zero...it was extremely impressive - but being the best possible skeptic I can I just assumed the test was a trick to con people into buying these extremeley insanesly priced power bars.

Today I was talking to a Monster rep at London Drugd(they carry Klipsch, Onkyo and other mid-fi stuff) and this rep was there to tell the London Drugs manager, presumably, about the new line. This guy seems so adamant that people not beleiving in cable differences are nuts. I believe he truly is passionate in his belief and swears up and down that they are better at preserving bass and treble and time coherence than lamp cord.

Anyway, knowing that the owner of monster was an audiophile Nuclear Physicist is there some merit in these bars...the actual measurement on the back shows huge power spikes and then claims that Monster makes them dead flat. The rep said amps cannot get rid of the noise blah blah.

I guess I'm looking for two things.

1) some kind of hard evidence, not opinion, that these clean power bars actually do work and get rid of video and audio noise.
2) that if there is is proof is there a dirt cheap alternative because frankly the profit or mark-up on Monster must be 10000%

Note I'm not interested to hear about small trial DBTs on this from some amp test in the 80s as it does not relate to this specific issue(If you have a DBT thta speaks SPECIFICALLY to Monster cable Clean power type 1 or 2 bars again SPECIFICALLY and ALL information is provided - like the building spec and the noise before the bar etc that's fine...because not all buildings have power issues to start with) - Proof in the way of actual MEASURED noise reduction is what I'm after. The back of these power bars show the before and after measured graphs - though the graph has no information to tell you what is actually being measured of course.

Also, I would ask the technical people on this forum to go to anyplace selling Monster cable which is just about any store carrying Monster - because apparently they will run this test for you so you can see what they're doing and tell me if it's full of BS. They have something like or is an SPL meter and one store owner said it reduced noise in the 7300 up to 24db. Put it this way there was a loud hiss that was completely gone when this was plugged in - it must therefore impact sound at least at noise level if this actually works outside the stores.

The units are all around $100-$2000.00 depending which you get???

I posted this at AA and got some responses at bottom but no technical answers http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/gen...es/314716.html