Furman Power Conditioner, Black (M-8S)

This is my first time buying a power conditioner so I didn’t really know where to start but the Furman Merit Series is the “entry level” series of Conditioners and the M-8S works great!

If you have speaker pop, this is the go to solution! My situation involved a pre-amp and 3 amplifiers for a home theater. The pre-amp has a 12VDC trigger. But the amplifiers turn on so quickly that before the pre-amp is ready there is this loud speaker pop! I used the remote input on the back of the Furman with an old stereo headphone cable with a 3.5mm jack. Cut the wire leads near the headphone. Burn off lacquer off all three wires with a lighter. Twist the red and green wires together and leave the copper wire alone. Insert twisted cable as REM in the Furman and copper into GND. Turn on Dip Switch 1 on the Furman. Plug stereo jack into pre-amp 12VDC trigger. Voila! The Furman now sequentially turns on my subwoofer amplifer, then 2-channel amp, and 7-channel amp. I like the simple Pi filter for basic EMI/RFI filtering. No need to over complicate the filters when connecting amps. Simpler the better. Great sound too!

When I wanted to add a power sequencer to our church's media booth, Furman was the only brand I considered. Top notch quality I have come to expect from them. Not only does this one make sure the incoming power is safe for your expensive gear, but with the flip of switch it will boot up the gear in the order you need it to. This prevents the horrid speaker pops and bangs and makes it easy to train volunteers in the booth.

This sequencer solved my speaker thump issue. I was using a series of surge protectors before, and this eliminated three of them. It looks professional and appears to be built to last. I think it helped my noise floor, but that could be placebo effect. It certainly didn't add any noise, that's for sure. System is dead quiet in-between albums. I would recommend this to anyone who is experiencing speaker thump on startup or shutdown with separate amp/preamp audio systems.

This is the second one of these I own. The first is for my home stereo to turn on items in sequence. The second, just purchased from Amazon, powers on my live music rig. Being able to turn on electronics in sequence is really a great idea to eliminate "thumps" and other external noise that can damage speakers. The Amazon one was significantly cheaper. Furman makes really solid, well made equipment - this is no exception!

works perfectly. outlets are however inlets at the back are too close to each other. if you have an adaptor that must be inserted sideways you lose 1 or 2 inlets immediately. outlets should be made so that adaptors can be inserted vertically or horizontally.

Has enough outlets and like the one on the front. Good product

We added this to our sound system and it works perfectly!