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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. What is the importance of component-to-component filtering?
A. With the Monster PowerCenter, AC power must first go through a segment of noise filters that isolate your equipment from noise on the AC power line. Most manufacturers’ battle against line noise stops there.
The next crucial step of noise filtering must occur between components. Our patented component-to-component noise filtering is one of the PowerCenter’s incredibly innovative features because it protects components from degrading each other’s performance via their own special type of interference. The PowerCenter outlets are all directly connected, so the noise that’s generated by a particularly noisy component (digital components like samplers are infamous for this) will attempt to get onto other components. It will not, however, because it must to go through a specialized filter to get to an adjacent outlet, and noise is eliminated for the best possible performance.
Q. What is the importance of separate filtering for analog and digital?
A. The nature of the analog and digital signals are very different. Each application generates a different kind of noise and is sensitive to different types of noise. Digital components generate a wide band of clock frequency-related interference. Audio components generate a narrow band of interference. Monster’s patented analog and digital filters are optimized for each application, for maximum noise filtering.
