The ultimate Power Supply Units for music servers (and other devices for cleaner power source)

[80levan]

As I know, the R-core type is more directional in it's EMI that a designer can work with that and only need to block one side. A torroidal one emits 360 degrees. R-core is also lower noise.

[80levan]

I've had the Intona and iso Regen and opted for the Corning. Lower noise floor and cleaner highs. I had the Matrix spdif 2, which had one of top performance on ASR, coupled that with the iso Regen + lps 1.2 and the Corning still sounded cleaner, faster and has a lower noise floor.

[80levan]

The hub may ruin the point of using a Corning. I'd go for a USB disruptor or idefender then power it with dxpwr power regulator and then some. 

[80levan]

I already did the 3.3v trick. No bueno. Haha. Huhu.

[80levan]

Nice discovery. Sounds like the Corning and USPCB combo is a portable bus-powered opticalrendu. And with less reclocking and less ICs to further corrupt the signal.

[80levan]

I was committed to my windows laptop +  windows 2012 + audio optimizer + fidelizer pro and was sharing my experience in some threads but was dismissed as an 'old school way' because network streaming is the way to go. Well I tried the Hifiberry Digi+ pro and even the Allo USBridge + Corning but both has an inferior sound. I tried all combinations on the USBRIDGE including a switch running on a 12v power bank and decoupling the modem after device handshake and using cat 8 cables. The sound is still inferior to my surprise. Also, more importantly to this conversation, playing the music files from the laptop on a flash drive that is sharing the USB hub with an Ethernet port sounds more inferior. The best combo I've achieved is having the USB flash drive on the USBRIDGE, run a playlist then unhook the USBridge from the switch. But in the end, the laptop still has the best sound. Wider, better timing and more linear.

 

So after much time and money spent, I'm swearing off a device that gets it's music files through an Ethernet cable or use anything Ethernet at all. I'm swearing off the ultraRendus and such.  Im still mildly curious on the Matrix Element X if I were to play files off it and decouple the Ethernet port on playback.

[80levan]

40 minutes ago, Chopin75 said:

Simplicity is the key for me. Now with additional devices, we are introducing potential dirty current into the chain, and more variables are added. External devices may have pros but the con of bringing additional jitter, RF/EMR etc all can degrade SQ. I presume you have already used good LPS for these devices, but results are still inferior?  

 

I tried variations of powering the USBRIDGE with the lps 1.2 and moving that lps 1.2 to power the corning on the rear end via idefender. Best result to my surprise is giving good power to the USBridge clean power on the clean board and no extra help needed in the Corning.