Power Supply for a music PC

"04-04-15: Ctsooner
IF you can find a Paul Haynes design linear power supply you will be golden. I have a large one running my Mac Mini and it is awesome."

I'm not familiar with those power supplies. What makes them better? Also, given the fact that you use a Mac Mini, suggests that its an external unit. Do they make ones that conform to ATX?

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Thanks for all of the ideas. I will look into the different units. For a music only machine how many watts are needed?

If you are only using the PC for music, then you don't need things like powerful video cards that use a lot of power. I use a Corsair RM750, and that's probably way more than what I really need. A 550 or 650 should be more than enough.

ZD, I got mine from Steve Nugent at Empiracal Audio. You can't get the Paul Haynes units new anymore, but someone else who can keep up with the demand is starting to make them I was told. Steve uses them in his high end DAC's external supplies also.

I've recently heard other Mac Mini servers set up like mine with Amarra with the same version at mine. He was using another power supply and even he was jealous of mine. Steve really seems to understand the tech side better than most I've encountered in this business. JMHO and I"m sure any of the other great supplies would work wonderfully for him. The whole idea of clean power and plenty of it is what any components is looking for and there are plenty of great and easy to get components out there as this thread has shown.