I found your explanation better than any I have read or heard - Excellent Thank you

Greetings from the beautiful Emerald Coast of northwest Florida! I greatly appreciate your incredible contribution to our beloved audiophile passion. Thank you for your years of devotion to making everything sound better. Thank you. Very respectfully, Billy P. Martin eodbillymartin eodaudiophile

I bought a LPS for my Schiit Modi+ DAC. It was very well made, with good quality transformer and components. It’s sucked the life out of the DAC - it flattened the soundstage and reduced dynamics. The sound became lifeless. The SMPS was far superior, with a much livelier, dynamic delivery. A LPS doesn’t guarantee better sound.

Excellent Video from the Godfather of Audiophiles..... Thank You we all need to ENJOY THE MUSIC.

Thank you, sir. So much useful information, followed by solid advice. You are much appreciated.

Welcome back Hans! Such a remarkable video as usual. Thank you ! By the way, you still mention your website but it is offline since quite a long time.

I have 2 SBooster power supplies, one for my ADOT fibre kit and the other for my Chord MScaler. I first had the SBooster on loan, which I used with the ADOT, and was really surprised by the overall improvement. For me, it is much better than the more expensive Plixir.

A super helpful video as always. I hope you enjoyed your vacation.

Hi I hope that you enjoy Italy and Calabria. Always a pleasure to see your content

Great information. Thank you. This is a reference video.

Good stuff. Thanks.

In general, the world will pretty much move over completely to switch mode supplies, simply because of regulations for efficiency that linear supplies won't be able to meet. These switchers seem fine as long as they are well filtered and high frequency leakages are kept to a minimum. Comparing simple wall warts today to those of 20 years ago certainly confirms this trend. Almost all of them are now switch mode types. As for substituting a linear for a switching type, in many cases, as you pointed out, it won't make a difference because a good number of products have their own charge pumps built in that allow for using a single supply that is then converted into a balanced dc supply. These are basically small switching supply modules that don't care what kind of power supply is used in front of them. When I worked at Sony in the late 70's, they were already playing with switch mode supplies in their higher receivers and integrated amps. They called the unregulated supplies "pulse power supply" and the regulated ones "pulse locked power supply". Unfortunately, they were pretty unreliable and the cause of many service complaints. And that's one other point: a linear supply is usually dead reliable. The same can't always be said for a switcher, which uses many more parts and stresses the electrolytic capacitors much more.

Very helpful, thanks

Another definitive video from our Hans.

I look forward to seing your videos ..Sir .. no matter the title .. or subject…always learn something . Thank You..

Welcome back. Hope your vacation was grand.

Appreciate your knowledge and videos,the distinction that smps are generally better for digital and linear ps for analogue was very helpful in choosing a power supply upgrade for my streamer.

Awesome!

This is your best video 🎉

👍💥💥💥💥💥. Keep the great job of being both a teacher and a entertainer.

Some manufacturers propose their external PS as an upgrade. So you should be sure to have an adapted PS for your component and get a better sound......but at what price ! In these case the price of the PS reach the sky. Excellent explanations and topic but difficult answer to the problem.

The difference with the use of an LHY 50v LPS for my Volumio Rivo over the provided switcher was absolutely staggering. Everything became way more open, balanced, impactful, sense of strain was eliminated. Everything became REAL.

Great great post! Very detailed and impartial which clearly lists out the pros and cons of both types of PS. I oft find an LPS , while provide darker background and cleaner sound, at the same time, it tends to slow down the music , dynmaics , rthythmic progression and "excitement" of music. What's your view on it? Do you recommend a few LPS which has best of both worlds?

Sir need a recommendation for upgrade of new .. Nucleus One power supply

Which one should I buy for a reasonable price?

Now is the new Voodoo fuse on the market for 100 Euro 🎉

Have you ever tried the iFi elite?

"Batteries are the nosiest solution"... does this mean buyer's of Stromtanks (sold as being "quieter than grid power") are fools?