power conditioner + scanner = better results ?

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Hello all,

I was acquainted with the high end audio field for a while and I recall that power conditioners, (aka line conditioners), were sometimes employed in high end systems. The thought was that cleaner power would produce a better signal that would be noticeable with higher end audio units.

Now, if you know anything about audiophiles you know that this sound improvement can be somewhat subjective but keeping that in mind I was wondering if it would be worth experimenting with putting a power conditioner in front of my Nikon Coolscan 5000 to see if makes any improvements on the scan. I suppose part of the equation is to measure how much my power actually fluctuates in my condo.

An opinions or suggestions would be most welcome.
 
I doubt it. Once this kind of devices also aimed at giving low harmonic content and were based on electromagnetism. Today they are solid state devices (inverters) and I am afraid that the aim is just to give uninterructible power within a certain voltage range, not clean power. I suspect just the opposite. I have anyway always an APC feeding my PC and scanner and I have the crappy results that all consumer scanner provide.
This is what they call progress.
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Digital systems are much less vulnerable to interference from "dirty" power in general. That's how digital works: either the bit is on (1), or it's off (0). "Dirty" on is the same as "clean" on -- it's on! Your scanner is mostly a digital system; imperfections, curl, etc. in your negative would cause more artifacts or degradation of quality than "dirty" power ever could. I'd be surprised if "clean" power made any difference, and I'd be floored if it made a noticeable difference at 100% magnification.
 
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