Hi guys. I'm looking for a little advice. I have a Cambridge Audio Dac Magic 100 which I'm happy enough with for now. But I only have the "Wall wart" power supply. I have spotted the Cambridge Audio linear power supply on eBay. My question is, would this be much of an upgrade? I know we're not at the high end here but for €100 would it make a difference?
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Alex, thats a kind of how long is a piece of string question. Feeding any component with a noise free pristine power supply with plenty of current headroom cant hurt, but it might not make an audible difference in every case.
Thats a complex little box to be splitting a single psu input into the 10-12 voltage rails it actually uses for all the parts inside. So probably not the best candidate.
Might you get an uptick with a nice 12v 2amp linear psu, its certainly possible. No need to spend big to get low noise though.
As always itll depend whats in the case.
HIFI Ultra-low Noise Linear Power Supply DC5V 9V 12V 15V 18V 24V LPS PSU 50VA | eBay
That'll do the trick and there's scope for replacing the lm317 with something better.
Thats a complex little box to be splitting a single psu input into the 10-12 voltage rails it actually uses for all the parts inside. So probably not the best candidate.
Might you get an uptick with a nice 12v 2amp linear psu, its certainly possible. No need to spend big to get low noise though.
As always itll depend whats in the case.
HIFI Ultra-low Noise Linear Power Supply DC5V 9V 12V 15V 18V 24V LPS PSU 50VA | eBay
That'll do the trick and there's scope for replacing the lm317 with something better.