Hi Pete, thanks for such a comprehensive reply. I trust everything you say, but it does leave me a little confused (no more than usual!).
PeteB wroteSomething like the ipower will not help if you have noisy mains and/or bad grounds (earth connection).
I thought that this was the whole point of the ipower? Are you saying that it does not work as advertised, or that I have misunderstood what its benefits supposedly are? I don't actually know that the electrics here are particularly bad, but it is quite an old house.
For me personally, "might be" is not a reason to spend several hudred dollars on power supplies. Especially since a WiFi dongle can fix that for $10.
This is my kind of thinking too. I may just have to switch over to wireless and see whether there is a noticeable improvement.
When I start adding other things, and other connections, the noise goes up, and eventually becomes audible. No power supply can prevent that.
Sure, but can a better power supply improve things, even if marginally? I'm interested that you say you can get almost studio quality with a stock smps. Does that mean that you consider it to be much lower down the list in terms of potential noise sources? Are there other benefits to things like linear/battery/ipower power supplies that are not related to noise? ie improved dynamics etc?
I could go on and on about the benefits of good power supplies in audio, but the fact is that you get most of the same benefits from simple and cheap solutions.
This is what I'm after! What are you referring to here exactly?
Cheers!
