Skunk Wrote: > > If you're of the mind a swithing power supply can pollute mains power, > the computer's PS would be a candidate for a linear upgrade. I believe > my system sounds better at 3am- when there's less noise on the grid in > general, and it irks me knowing the PC in the basement suffering from > electrical-noise diarrhea. Most of the wee hour effect is probably just > a lower noise floor though.
Well, I'm now partly convinced that the sbox PS could have an effect, since the box is outputting a real time audio signal which could induce jitter in the DAC. It seems to me this must depend greatly on the DAC (for example a DAC with its own clock or a data buffer might be insensitive to this), but I can see how there might be an effect. But how can there possibly be an effect from the PC PSU? The data is sent over a computer network, which (last time I checked) includes error checking mechanisms which essentially guarantee a perfect bit-for-bit transmission to the sbox. Not to mention that if you're concerned about that, you're opening a huge can of worms: inside your computer case you have fans, multiple power supply cables, very complex electronics etc. all of which could potentially induce noise in the signal. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21556 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
