Stop listening to crap!!!
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:16 pm
Okay, I didn't really know how to get anyone's attention for such a seemingly mundane topic. Please don't throw rocks if you hate me for it. I don't hate you because you have a TRS-80 in your closet.
Many, many years ago, I bought a Soundcraft Ghost console. The first one sounded amazing, but it had a few issues with some buttons. The next few sounded like....crap, but the buttons worked. What was the difference? The power supply. The first one was linear and the others were switchers.
Let's get right down to the bottom of the stack of bricks. We listen to the power supply. That's right. All audio does is modulate the power supply. It's pretty simply, elegant and scary.
I've taken a few switched mode power supplies and put good linear supplies in their place. AMAZING difference. What I'm interested in is if anyone else has tried the same thing. It seems to make more of a difference in some places in the signal chain than others.
Anyone tried it? Please share your experience. I'd be very interested in the application and the type of supply you used. Directly, I replaced the firewire based supply on my original Traveler with an external linear supply. Made a substantial difference in how the unit recorded, but not so much in how it fed my Lucid DA 9624 through the spdif port.
In my opinion, it's the least expensive way to make a huge upgrade to your audio chain.
Mikey
Many, many years ago, I bought a Soundcraft Ghost console. The first one sounded amazing, but it had a few issues with some buttons. The next few sounded like....crap, but the buttons worked. What was the difference? The power supply. The first one was linear and the others were switchers.
Let's get right down to the bottom of the stack of bricks. We listen to the power supply. That's right. All audio does is modulate the power supply. It's pretty simply, elegant and scary.
I've taken a few switched mode power supplies and put good linear supplies in their place. AMAZING difference. What I'm interested in is if anyone else has tried the same thing. It seems to make more of a difference in some places in the signal chain than others.
Anyone tried it? Please share your experience. I'd be very interested in the application and the type of supply you used. Directly, I replaced the firewire based supply on my original Traveler with an external linear supply. Made a substantial difference in how the unit recorded, but not so much in how it fed my Lucid DA 9624 through the spdif port.
In my opinion, it's the least expensive way to make a huge upgrade to your audio chain.
Mikey