PS Noise Harvester

Has anyone tried one of these or heard anything about them?
It's supposed to be a contraption that you plug into any mains outlet and it somehow cleans up all or much of the transients and nasties on the grid and converts these into a blinking light.

Now the reason I'm asking is I've grown awfully weary of the highly fluctuating quality of the mains power I'm getting. Some days, or hours of the day, I get truly fantastic music from my system. The kind of results where you almost wonder how anything could possibly get any better. While quite often at other times everything sounds really awful. Really fatiguing and it just gets you frustrated trying to listen to music. I'm being honest here, it's really more pain than pleasure listening to music at these occasions . And since the great EU has decided everyone must turn to the toxic mercury-filled and highly grid-polluting energy-saving light sources these problems are only bound to get worse. I could almost swear this issue has gotten worse since only just a year ago as more and more people run out of good old light bulbs and have to get the horrible kind that's more or less the only one there is in free EUSSR.
Clean power seem to have become a thing of the past.


Edited by suede - 26 Apr 2013 at 6:46pm

Glad (in a way...) that someone else seems to suffer from similar issues, sometimes my system sounds nearly 100% and at others like you say it gets a bit tiresome to listen to. Is this the price of having a very revealing audio system? Do we need to have a low-res audio system for times when the mains seems to be bad?

I'm sorry I got a bit whingy about EU regulations and environmental hypocrisy there.
But still I wonder isn't more people here having the same problems with wildly varying quality of mains power? And what have they then done to remedy this, if it's even feasibly done?
I must say it's quite a peeve for me not being able to use my stereo some days, or even weeks, without instant fatigue and headaches. It's like having paid good money on a nice car that just won't start some days on account of the petrol turning to cooking oil seemingly at random. I just want better reliability is all.
I was initially thinking of getting a power conditioner but from what I've gathered they often do just as much harm as good in making the system blunt sounding and lacking in energy. But then this is just what I've read on the internet really.
Any views or input would really be appreciated.

Maybe the practical solution is to have a dozen or so car batteries powering the audio gear and to fit steel mesh behind the plasterboard so as to convert the listening room into some kind of Faraday cage