I've never been able to hear a difference between the stock switcher and a linear supply. My SB2 is built into a box with my home made pre-amp, so I made up a linear supply just because it was easier than adapting the switcher to work off the pre-amp's IEC inlet. When I was testing the home made supply I did a few back-to-back tests, and couldn't tell the difference.
But..... My network connection to my SB2 is via an 'ethernet-over-the-mains' adapter, which works flawlessly up to insanely high bitrates. I recently added an ipod dock to one of the pre-amp inputs, and that came with a cheap switching PSU. To my surprise I found that the presence of that PSU on the same mains socket as the ethernet adapter resulted in regular dropouts in the internet connection to the SB2. That was proof to me that a messy supply certainly can affect other devices. I'm still not convinced there's any difference in the sound though. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74250 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
