In Reply to: Jitter and power supply quality posted by beppe61 on April 9, 2014 at 06:13:01:
If your wall-wart is a 12-VDC unit, you can find out whether a better power supply will improve things by substituting an inexpensive sealed lead-acid battery. I did this many years ago with an Audio Alchemy DAC-in-the-Box and the audible improvement was dramatic.
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- RE: Jitter and power supply quality - John Elison 14:24:01 04/09/14 (13)
- First try ... - beppe61 03:26:26 04/10/14 (0)
- " inexpensive sealed lead-acid battery " - beppe61 01:13:27 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: Jitter and power supply quality - Bob_C 21:46:54 04/09/14 (0)
- RE: Jitter and power supply quality - Tony Lauck 17:05:41 04/09/14 (9)
- RE: Jitter and power supply quality - DeeCee 17:26:17 04/09/14 (8)
- RE: Jitter and power supply quality - John Elison 18:35:05 04/09/14 (7)
- Interesting that you mention the Alchemy DDE v3.0 - 1973shovel 05:09:45 04/12/14 (0)
- " The standard AC power supply sounded just as good as the batteries " - beppe61 05:10:10 04/10/14 (5)
- RE: " The standard AC power supply sounded just as good as the batteries " - Roseval 10:51:05 04/10/14 (4)
- Good to konw and cuts through the 'battery' fantasy of 'perfect power supply' rather well. nt - Elizabeth 15:17:28 04/12/14 (0)
- Thanks a lot for the hint ! - beppe61 22:13:45 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: " The standard AC power supply sounded just as good as the batteries " - John Elison 11:37:13 04/10/14 (1)
- RE: " The standard AC power supply sounded just as good as the batteries " - Roseval 12:02:04 04/10/14 (0)