The BEST power strip for musicians and DJs? Furman SS-6b Quick Look 

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Have you seen the plug-lock model they make specifically for wall-wart adapters? They are great if you have to deal with bunch of them at once - amzn.to/49eKfgt - that's an ad link. Thanks for checking out the video!

Nice 👍🏼 Are you running your wing on a batter backup? I’ve used TrippLite batteries since the early 01v96 days and they’ve saved a few shows for sure over the years. Really enjoy your videos, thanks for watching mine ✌🏼

@@DcSoundOp Hi 👋 I do have a UPS at home but never on the road, I mostly tour around Quebec and we have some of the best power central ever made, voltage drops or simply outage are non existent here. Also, most festivals run on generators when the grid is not available and those are also really solid power source I’m really flattered that you watch my videos, we should do a colab one day. Have a great day!

I had a couple of those Belkins mounted over a workbench years ago, loved them for that. Not sure where those got to actually 🤔 Thanks for the message & for watching!

@@DcSoundOp Always enjoy your content. I am not on the road much anymore, but your content is still relevant...sometimes I do get the venture out of the TV station and do field work.

Here’s a link to the belkins - a lot of folks will also recognize them from Casey Neistat’s NYC studio walls - (not an affiliate link) www.amazon.com/dp/B000BVC0WO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_gl_i_66HQ41TCS9NSM57N0R8G

I agree, a bigger model would be great!

@@DcSoundOphi, can I plug in my 2 RCF 905s AS mk2 (which are 2200 W class D amplifier) into this Furman power strip without them shutting off because of pulling too much power out of the strip?

I haven't looked at the 6B PRO personally, but if you don't have some type of over voltage protection up-stream of these in your system, I would think that would be a good idea to add for sure. Going into commercial buildings, gov buildings and hotel ballrooms, you can easily get really spicy voltages to work with. A strip with over or under voltage warnings or protection can certainly help anyone who's not in the practice of metering the power before plugging in on gigs.

@@DcSoundOp Thank you. That helps a lot.

Looks like it's parallel, yeah it would have been nice if all 3 were wired Star configuration instead of parallel. Which is the main reason I'm here, glad he took off the cover to expose wiring. Now I know...

Hey, thanks for the question. A unit like this won't really do anything to correct for bad power in that sense. Before buying any power conditioners or studio-specific solutions, I would try to find a local electrician to help you figure out the cause and see if anything can be done to improve the power. Sometimes it can be a simple fix.

VPR is listed at 400V on their spec sheet.

Which models do you like from them? They make amazing stuff, but they’re in another league price wise too.

Yeah, if you buy electronics from other countries, it's pretty important to make sure they are compatible first. That's a bummer but maybe you can sell it on eBay to someone in a different country?

@@DcSoundOpvery good how to do that?

Very interesting... can you tell us more about this compression you are hearing & what gear you are using?

​@@DcSoundOp My hp setup is topping e50 -> GL mk2 -> anandas. Soundstage shrinks, all frequencies sound noticeably muted. This happens whether I plug in my dac or amp. Compression is the best way to describe it. Robs the music of all dynamics.

Okay, I really don't like to get into audiophile debates, nor do I like to tell anyone that what they are hearing is not correct. With that said, it is very hard to understand how you could be experiencing not only dynamics changes, but also what sounds like a change in frequency response AND the stereo width shrinking... all from a power strip. The equipment you listed is all operating at low DC voltage. That DC voltage is being provided by external power supplies (5v for the DAC and it looks like two rails, + and - 16VDC for the amplifier.) If a MOV inside a power strip is causing adverse performance of either of these under normal operation, there is something significantly wrong with either the gear or your incoming power feed from the wall. Otherwise, there is nothing that should be causing the MOV to act in normal use. Like I said, I'm not saying what you are hearing isn't happening, just that this power strip wouldn't be the reason under normal circumstances.