Kind of a touchy subject, but how does everyone here power their schiit? Power conditioners? Fancy power cables? Whatever comes in the box? Plastic bags of gems taped onto the terminations???
Living room: Audioquest NRG Edison outlet, Audioquest Niagara 1200 power conditioner, Wireworld Stratus 7 power cords
Desk: Furman PST-8 surge protector > 2x Tripp-Lite PS240810 power strips + 6x iFi AC iPurifier plug-in power conditioners, Wireworld Stratus 7 and Volex 17604 power cords
Bedroom: TP-Link HS110 smart plug, Audioquest Niagara 1000 power conditioner, Volex 17604 & 17605 power cords
Kitchen: Tripp-Lite Isobar 8 surge protector, Volex 17604 power cords
The Volex power cords are a no-brainer. 14 AWG, shielded, affordable, but only come in 2 m (17604) and 3 m (17605) lengths.
The Stratus 7 sounds a bit better to me, is 12 AWG, less flexible, more expensive while still reasonable, and starts at 1 m.
I tried some other power cords over time, but stuck with these, both based on listening tests and testing the shielding with a TriField TF2.
The Niagara 1000 made a considerable difference when I first tried it (but only in my living room speaker system, not with my headphone setups) and I wanted a second high current outlet for the subwoofer, so I upgraded to the 1200 and use the 1000 in the bedroom. I have yet to try and isolate what equipment it most helps/helped with, though. I hope to eventually have an audio rack that is more suitable for swapping power back and forth, currently it's too much of a chore.
The iFi AC iPurifier helped a bit with imaging in my speaker system, with two helping more than one, and a third... maybe some more, not sure. But I wound up buying three more over time, so now I use them at my experimental desk setup, one power strip for DACs, one for amps, and 3x AC iPurifier per power strip to separate the equipment somewhat. At the very least I sleep better with them.
The Furman PST-8 (technically a power conditioner) and Tripp-Lite Isobar 8 (with four isolated banks) are just supposedly capable surge protectors to me. The PST-8D version didn't seem to do anything for the sound of my speaker system. There's a chance that the Isobar 8 is actually a bad choice, the one in my living room makes my torchiere flicker when my vacuum (both plugged into it) gets stuck on a rug or when the fridge turns on (in the kitchen), which doesn't happen when the torchiere is just plugged into a wall. I guess that means it's doing something, eh?
The Audioquest NRG Edison outlet I got as part of my "I'm new to this, I'll try anything" approach. It's one of the few "audiophile" outlets that has a 15A version, not just 20A, and I didn't want to violate some building codes. Can't say that I heard it make a difference, but it sure is very grippy indeed. My current furniture also gets in the way of reasonably comfortable A/B tests here.
