I was over a friend’s house recently, and though he had all good equipment, somehow the sum was less than the parts. Pass Labs power/pre, Lampizator DAC, Oppo player, SR power cords and interconnects, etc.
Powering it all was a 25 year old RadioShack surge protector strip. It had an on/off switch, indicator lights...
My feeling is that it is not up to the task at hand, or that there may be parts in there that have degraded (MOV’s).
Thoughts?
I should say he is amenable to change; I just wanted to verify with some others.
Thanks.