Following the advice of Wayne at Boulder Cable (the thread is on Audio Circle), I bought a refurbished Elpac WM220-1 (5 and 12VDC, rated at 22 watts!) for $46 plus shipping. I spliced in a plug that mates with the Touch, otherwise I've done no power supply mods so far (the WM220 is very open and the circuit board accessible, so mods will be easy). Apparently some WM220s can buzz, but mine did not... buyer beware!
I never know what to expect with something like this, and most of the time I do it from a "more beef in the power supply can't hurt" point of view, but this time the results were quite nice. The dominant effect was clearly increased dynamics. With the Touch driven by the Elpac, instrumental attacks had a sharper edge and the music was more fun and engaging; driven by the stock supply it was more polite, more recessed, less interesting. There may also be more inner detail with the WM220, but to date (to my ears, with the music I've listend to so far, etc.) the effect is not large. Peter -- psp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ psp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79977 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
