Why are Switching power supplies so uncommon in power amps?
Hello !
please excuse my trivial question
But SPS have a lot of benefits
if we do not want to talk about efficiency at least the weight
And still power amps powered by SPS are a very small part of the totality
I thought that only very expensive SPS were good enough to be used in a audio hifi power amp
I knew of Halcro, Linn Klimax range, Lab Gruppen ... all extremely good but also not precisely cheap
Now I read that Mackie has a line of amps with SPS that are not expensive and sound good. They are traditional class AB amps but with SPS.
To end all the ramblings why these SPS are so rare in amps ?
Do they have any drawback sound wise ?
Actually I am asking because I would like to try one of these products
https://www.coldamp.com/store/products/audio-power-supplies
in an old amp I have at hand. Just for curiosity
Thanks a lot for any info
Kind regards,
gino
Hello !
please excuse my trivial question
But SPS have a lot of benefits
if we do not want to talk about efficiency at least the weight
And still power amps powered by SPS are a very small part of the totality
I thought that only very expensive SPS were good enough to be used in a audio hifi power amp
I knew of Halcro, Linn Klimax range, Lab Gruppen ... all extremely good but also not precisely cheap
Now I read that Mackie has a line of amps with SPS that are not expensive and sound good. They are traditional class AB amps but with SPS.
To end all the ramblings why these SPS are so rare in amps ?
Do they have any drawback sound wise ?
Actually I am asking because I would like to try one of these products
https://www.coldamp.com/store/products/audio-power-supplies
in an old amp I have at hand. Just for curiosity
Thanks a lot for any info
Kind regards,
gino
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