stone Wrote: > Then I attached two ferrites to the cable close to the power subbply > itself. Now the SB is playing music! Can not believe the change. The > setup still has a tendency toward details in the highs, but now it is > musical. > > What happened? Not sure but the power cord may have been acting as an > rf antenna, or the power started behaving when the ferrites appeared. > Any suggestions?
A lot of people have noticed that going from the stock switching power supply to a linear supply helps smooth out the sound. I've done that and noticed that when I've got my squeezebox running on the linear supply, just plugging in the switching supply but not having it connected to anything degrades the sound. So I think your theory that the cord is radiating high frequency noise that somehow is getting picked by your amps and causing noise is right. It seems you've found a nice way of eliminating that in your system without getting a new supply. It would be interesting to see how it compares to the cheap linear power supplies that others are using. I've got some ferrites lying around - I'll see if I can find some time to do the experiment. ---Gary -- GaryB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GaryB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
