hypex ncore

[Marcocet]

Originally Posted by kbergsson

Hi I had the same problem on one channel but that was after 5hours of constant use. I isolated the problem to one of the Ncores. I have no idea what caused it. This problem has mysteriously disappeared over the last week. Maybe it will re-appear later

I noticed at lot of static electricity build up both in my VPI Classic and in the amp enclosure and was hoping that going balanced once i get my second smps600 will solve this once and for all.

regards
Kjartan

Looks like the dc protect circuit was mis-calibrated. I got instructions from hypex and the unit is working great now. I can't wait to give these things a listen!

Thanks

[rave959]

Thanks, Jason!



Christian

Originally Posted by jtwrace

[RogerSch]

What no post in the last 24 hours? Is this thread dead?

[Julf]

Originally Posted by RogerSch

What no post in the last 24 hours? Is this thread dead?

Don't know about anyone else, but I am right now stuck at the airport in Helsinki, so there will not be much progress on my system until I get back home

[Koifarm]

Does anyone uses conventional powersupply with the ncore modules?

I liked the conventional power supply much more then the smps with the ucd modules. Now i only read about ncore with smps, why?

Ronny.

[Juhleren]

Originally Posted by Koifarm

Does anyone uses conventional powersupply with the ncore modules?

I liked the conventional power supply much more then the smps with the ucd modules. Now i only read about ncore with smps, why?

Ronny.

Ronny,

Interesting. Can you elaborate on what kind of linear and smps that you compared and how you found them to sound differently?

Having not done that test myself, I am very curios about whether I should build a PS myself (linear), and if so, what kind of configuration i should go for, or just go the smps way that most seem to be doing these days...

best

[analog_sa]

Originally Posted by Koifarm

Now i only read about ncore with smps, why?

Easy, light and cheap. Enough to put many off experimenting with proper power supplies.

Otoh, these guys Veloce - V8 Amplifier seem to think that even linear supples don't do the UCD justice and use lithium batteries. They would likely do the same with the Ncores.

[RogerSch]

Originally Posted by analog_sa

Otoh, these guys Veloce - V8 Amplifier seem to think that even linear supples don't do the UCD justice and use lithium batteries. They would likely do the same with the Ncores.

Look to their website "Official release dates for the V8 and V12 are TBD but are anticipated to be 4th quarter of 2009." and it is still not on their website I presume it is a kind of Vapor ware...

[Koifarm]

In the ucd thread there was enough discussion about the power supply.

I could hear very good the difference in the blindtest between smps and linear/ conventional power supply with the Standard UCD. With the smps the mids and highs at lower volume passages has much less rest then with the linear supply. Further could i hear differrence in the percussions like snaredrum, the sound with the smps was not as fast and fat as with the linear powersupply.

When Testing with the HG + HXR versions the above differrences where not noticeble. But i did not like the overall sound, it was to clean and boring.

The above discribed my own experience. But the testing was done with a lot of people at several different places and setups in Germany and the Netherlands. There was about 90% of the people who shared the same opinion. But this says nothing about what to( you) like. It is best when possible to listen for yourself.

But because there was a diffence i am now curious if that also the case with the ncore.

For the price of the smps600 it is very good possible to build a very good linear supply.

[Juhleren]

Originally Posted by Koifarm

In the ucd thread there was enough discussion about the power supply.

I could hear very good the difference in the blindtest between smps and linear/ conventional power supply with the Standard UCD. With the smps the mids and highs at lower volume passages has much less rest then with the linear supply. Further could i hear differrence in the percussions like snaredrum, the sound with the smps was not as fast and fat as with the linear powersupply.

When Testing with the HG + HXR versions the above differrences where not noticeble. But i did not like the overall sound, it was to clean and boring.

The above discribed my own experience. But the testing was done with a lot of people at several different places and setups in Germany and the Netherlands. There was about 90% of the people who shared the same opinion. But this says nothing about what to( you) like. It is best when possible to listen for yourself.

But because there was a diffence i am now curious if that also the case with the ncore.

For the price of the smps600 it is very good possible to build a very good linear supply.

Thanks for your elaboration

It has been reported that a dedicated smps600 for each ncore sounds better than two ncores sharing one smps600 though some claim that it should not matter for technical reasons.

My guess is that it does. And I therefore think it is plausible that a linear supply sounds different. For the price of two smps600s one can definitely build a really serious linear supply with money to spare...