Dorkus, Well said. I would like to add that usually (consumer level products in mind) designs are constrained in both cost and time to market. The item has to be (or should) profitable for a companies success. This means that selected parts, while appropriate for the reliability, quality controls, and stated performance, may not result in the BEST sound for a given circuit implementation (not re-design, aka clipping this and rerouting that and piping in a supply line here). Again it's all about trade-offs...but for us audiofools we must tweak and twist until we feel its up to our constantly evolving standards! Ok i'm off my soap box. SOrry. On another note I bought a welborne labs squeezebox linear power supply. I actually went to the trouble of designing and researching a comparable supply (digikey, mouser, newark, etc)in capture, and when I analyzed the BOM (including sending the board out for fab) a nice aluminum enclosure, requisite cables, the darn thing was at least as expensive...so be it for NRE, they get to amortize the NRE over the sale of many units, hence improve their profit margins, wheras in my case its a one off, crazy overhead but cool DIY factor. Time being a factor, i pulled the trigger at welborne. I found one well known outfit offering a SB2/3 linear power supply for 750 dollars... what an outrageous unnecessary rip off (IMHO). But some audiophiles have more dollars than sense and such "products" are quickly snatched up. I would have saved my money for the transporter...
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